The purchase in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial made a jury’s award respectable Friday with a written list for Heard to pay Depp $10.35 million for negative his status by describing herself as a home abuse victim in an op-ed fraction she wrote.
Remark Penney Azcarate entered a judgment list into the court docket document after a transient listening to in Fairfax County Circuit Court docket. She moreover ordered Depp to pay Heard $2 million, the jury’s award on her counterclaim that Heard used to be defamed by one amongst Depp’s legal professionals.
The list used to be a formality after the jury presented its verdict on June 1, largely siding with Depp after a sensational trial whereby the couple printed lurid limited print of their short marriage for the interval of a televised trial that used to be carefully followed on social media.
Depp sued Heard over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing home abuse.” The jury speak in Depp’s settle on on all three of his claims relating to narrate statements in the 2018 fraction.
The jury chanced on Depp ought to score $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, however the purchase diminished the punitive damages award to $350,000 below a disclose cap.
Heard has acknowledged she plans to allure the verdict.
All the method in which thru Friday’s listening to, the purchase acknowledged that if if Heard appeals, she need to post a bond for the fleshy quantity of the $10.35 million award while the allure is pending — a typical practice. The purchase’s list says every awards are topic to 6% curiosity per three hundred and sixty five days.