Amber Heard is pleading with the court to absolve her of the $10 million defamation judgment she was ordered to pay Johnny Depp.
On Friday, Heard’s attorney’s, Elaine Bredehoft and Ben Rottenborn, filed paperwork requesting that the verdict be tossed out. They claim that the judgment wasn’t supported by the evidence presented during the six-week trial, which was filled with salacious allegations from both sides.
In the end, a jury sided with Depp, agreeing that his ex-wife defamed him by writing a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post, calling herself a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The headline of that article also referred to Heard as a sexual assault survivor. Throughout the article, she alluded to Depp being her abuser during their marriage, claims that caused him to lose business opportunities. Heard did not walk away empty-handed at trial. She won $2 million in her countersuit against the Hollywood star.
Heard’s legal team says the 59-year-old could not prove that the op-ed cost him his leading role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the sixth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean.” They claim no contracts had been signed. Therefore it cannot be proved if Heard was the reason he lost the part.
“Mr. Depp presented no evidence of any pecuniary damages suffered,” Heard’s lawyers wrote.
Depp has maintained that he never touched Heard and says she was the abuser.
