The jury attained a verdict in the Johnny Depp and Amber Listened to defamation trial Wednesday — with a unanimous verdict on all a few counts in favor of Depp, even though Read also received for one particular of a few claims in her have defamation countersuit — but the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star was not on deck to listen to the final results.
Considering that closing arguments wrapped up on Friday, Depp, 58, jet-setted from the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom to the United Kingdom.
“Due to beforehand scheduled perform commitments built before the trial, Mr. Depp will not be physically present for today’s 3 p.m. verdict and will be seeing from the United Kingdom,” a supply close to the actor informed The Put up.
Listened to, on the other hand, was in the courtroom, ready for the verdict to be browse.
“Your presence reveals where your priorities are. Johnny Depp performs guitar in the United kingdom though Amber Heard waits for a verdict in Virginia,” a rep for Read instructed The Submit. “Depp is having his snickering and lack of seriousness on tour.”
The panel of jurors awarded Depp a whole of $15 million in damages soon after deliberating for about 13 hrs. The judge, nonetheless, capped the amount in damages he could receive at $350,000.
In a assertion to The Post, the actress claimed she was “heartbroken” about the verdict in favor of Depp. “The disappointment I come to feel today is beyond phrases,” she said.
Depp, in his have statement received by The Write-up, applauded that “the jury gave me my everyday living back again. I am definitely humbled,” adding, “The very best is still to arrive and a new chapter has at last begun.”
On Wednesday, Depp was noticed leaving the 100 Queen’s Gate Lodge London, where by suites can cost up to $2,985 a evening, the Day by day Mail reported.
The actor, accused of domestic abuse for the duration of his relationship to Listened to, invested his Memorial Working day weekend onstage at Jeff Beck concerts: two in Sheffield and a single in London.
On the third night time, fan video clip captured Depp and Beck waving jointly and embracing on stage.
The actor wore a bandana to keep back his extended blond hair. The duo carried out a rendition of their 2020 collaboration “Isolation,” a address of a track John Lennon introduced in 1970.
Viewers customers cheered, “We really like you, Johnny!” and gave the Hollywood star a standing ovation.
Depp’s former lover Listened to and recent rebuttal witness Kate Moss also attended the London show. Resources reported he invited her.
The supermodel appeared in court on Could 25 to testify that Depp did not throw her down a flight of ways like Read claimed he did.
“He hardly ever pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs,” Moss, searching classy in a white pussybow shirt and black blazer, explained with a smirk.
The jury, who had Monday off in observance of the holiday getaway, began deliberations on Friday. Even though Depp was en route to occasion like a rockstar, the seven-human being jury had a dilemma for Judge Penney Azcarate.
The problem was whether or not they located the headline of the op-ed — which examine, “I spoke up from sexual violence — and confronted our culture’s wrath” — to be wrong.
Azcarate informed the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom that the jury was asking if the query associated to just the headline itself or the whole op-ed.
She reported she would instruct the jurors that they had been to look at the headline — and not the op-ed as a complete.
“The assertion is the headline and not the full op-ed,” the judge reported.
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