'The jury may not have believed Heard felt 'the full force of our culture’s wrath' before, but she sure is now, and I fear other survivors will pay dearly for it'
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images The TikTokers and YouTube livestream commenters who clamored for Amber Heard’s downfall got their wish Wednesday. The jurors in Depp v. Heard returned a mixed verdict that found Heard had defamed her ex-husband Johnny Depp three times in a Washington Post op-ed that didn’t mention him by name but referred to Heard as “a public figure representing domestic abuse,” which the actor argued would call him to mind for readers.
This was not a criminal case litigating whether Depp abused Heard or she abused him. But by suing Heard personally for defamation, Depp’s lawyers turned the trial into a referendum on her character and credibility. The statements at the heart of Depp’s lawsuit were the op-ed’s headline and two sentences in the piece . Heard didn’t actually write any of them; testimony revealed that a Post editor wrote the headline and the ACLU ghostwrote the op-ed.
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