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   FAIRFAX, Va. — Johnny Depp won all three counts of his bombshell   
   defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard on Wednesday after a   
   Virginia jury substantiated the claim that his ex-wife sullied   
   his reputation and damaged his career when she wrote about   
   becoming a “public figure representing domestic abuse” following   
   the couple’s split.   
      
   After some 13 hours of deliberations, the panel of seven in   
   Fairfax awarded the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star $10 million   
   in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.   
      
   However, because Virginia law caps punitive damages at $350,000,   
   the actor was actually awarded a total $10.35 million.   
      
   As the verdict was read, Heard looked somber and looked down,   
   wearing a black dress and a gold necklace.   
      
   “The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I’m   
   heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough   
   to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway   
   of my ex-husband,” she said in a statement after the verdict.   
      
   Depp, 58, had sued Heard for $50 million over her 2018   
   Washington Post essay in which she wrote about facing “our   
   culture’s wrath” for speaking out against a powerful man — a   
   warning that seemingly became more prescient with the jury’s   
   decision.   
      
   In her statement, Heard called the verdict a “setback” for other   
   women, saying: “It sets back the clock to a time when a woman   
   who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and   
   humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is   
   to be taken seriously.”   
      
   “I’m sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to   
   have lost a right I thought I had as an American — to speak   
   freely and openly,” said Heard, who appeared shaken when the   
   verdict was read.   
      
   Heard plans to appeal the verdict, a source familiar with her   
   legal strategy told The Post.   
      
   The actress did win her second of three counts in her $100   
   million counterclaim against her ex-husband, with the jury   
   finding that his attorney Adam Waldman did defame her when he   
   told the Daily Mail she set up Depp in a hoax when the police   
   came to their apartment in May 2016.   
      
   The jury found she should be awarded $2 million.   
      
   In a statement, Depp, who was not in the courtroom when the   
   verdict was read, said: “The jury gave me my life back.”   
      
   “Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of   
   those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people who for   
   many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever   
   changed,” he said.   
      
   “False, very serious and criminal allegations were levied at me   
   via the media, which triggered an endless barrage of hateful   
   content, although no charges were ever brought against me,” he   
   added. “It had already traveled around the world twice within a   
   nanosecond and it had a seismic impact on my life and my career.”   
      
   He added: “From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this   
   case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome.   
   Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and   
   to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me.   
   I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that.”   
      
   After the verdict was read, Heard hugged her lawyers before   
   leaving the courtroom. A throng of Depp fans cheered outside the   
   courthouse, and his legal team later gave a press conference.   
      
   “Today’s verdict confirms what we have said from the beginning,”   
   said Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez.   
      
   His attorney, Ben Chew, added: “We are also most pleased that   
   the trial has resonated for so many people in the public who   
   value truth and justice,” lawyer Ben Chew said.   
      
   The two lawyers did not take questions after their brief remarks.   
      
   Early in his testimony, Depp told the jury he brought the   
   lawsuit against the “Aquaman” actress for defamation to “clear   
   my name.”   
      
   “My goal is the truth,” he said on April 19. “One day you’re   
   Cinderella and then in zero point six seconds you’re Quasimodo.   
   I didn’t deserve that and neither did my children.”   
      
   Heard, 36, alleged Depp physically and sexually abused her,   
   recounting harrowing moments in her testimony in which she   
   claimed the widely beloved star assaulted her, including once   
   forcibly penetrating her with a liquor bottle.   
      
      
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