There is not any finish in sight for Johnny Depp's courtroom actions with ex-wife Amber Heard, because the actor filed to attraction her $2M verdict towards him.
Following Amber Heard‘s file to attraction ex Johnny Depp‘s $15M judgment towards her, the Pirates of the Caribbean star clapped again with an attraction of his personal. Amber was awarded $2M in her countersuit towards Johnny, and the Edward Scissorhands actor can be pushing again on that a lot smaller award. Per paperwork obtained by HollywoodLife, Johnny filed his attraction on Friday, July 22 on the Virginia Court docket of Appeals in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Information hit Thursday, July 21 that legal professionals for the Aquaman magnificence, 36, had formally filed an attraction in Johnny’s notorious defamation case towards her. Per papers obtained by HL, Amber seeks to attraction the decision stating that she was responsible of sabotaging her ex-husband’s profession, when she wrote an editorial within the Washington Publish figuring out herself as a “public determine” representing home violence. Amber by no means named Johnny within the op-ed. The Ed Wooden star was beforehand awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, in a extremely publicized case that overwhelmingly solid Amber because the villain within the courtroom of well-liked opinion.
“We consider the courtroom made errors that prevented a simply and truthful verdict per the First Modification,” learn a press release forwarded to HL from Amber’s spokesperson. “We're due to this fact interesting the decision. Whereas we notice at the moment’s submitting will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we have to take to make sure each equity and justice.” Amber’s transfer to have the complete case thrown out by mistrial was denied on July 13.
Amber had requested decide Penney Azcarate to throw out the case, claiming that a fallacious juror was seated and finally helped seal the actress’s destiny within the defamation case. In the meantime, Johnny’s speedy publish trial assertion declared that “The jury gave me my life again.”
This isn’t the primary time the actor has filed an attraction. After a dramatic loss in his UK libel case towards The Solar, whom he sued for labeling him a “spouse beater,” Johnny appealed in November of 2020. Nevertheless, Decide Andrew Nicol once more dominated towards him, upholding his unique verdict that of 12 of 14 alleged incidents of home violence towards Amber did occur in his opinion, per the proof offered.
“The findings of reality by a primary occasion tribunal (notably one, equivalent to myself, who has heard oral proof) are not often open to problem on attraction,” learn the ruling. “In any occasion, I don't contemplate that the proposed grounds of attraction have an affordable prospect of success (and that's additionally the case as far as the grounds of attraction recommend that I erred in precept or in regulation) and there's not another compelling purpose why permission to attraction ought to be granted.”
Johnny was finally pressured to resign from his position within the Unbelievable Beasts franchise following the loss.