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Amber Heard’s attorneys are seeking to appeal or throw out last month’s verdict in thedefamation court battlebetween the actress and her ex-husbandJohnny Depp.
In one claim, Heard’s team argues that it was incorrect for Depp, 59, to claim that he lost his role in thePirates of the Caribbeanfilm series because of aWashington Postop-ed, where Heard wrote that she was abused but did not name the abuser.
TheAquamanstar’s team also claimed that one of the jurors who served during the trial was not properly vetted. The person summoned to court had a birth date of 1945 but Heard’s team claims that the person who served was much younger.
The juror, identified in the filing as Juror 15, “was clearly born later than 1945. Publicly available information demonstrates that he appears to have been born in 1970,” the motion states.
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Last month, Deppwon all three defamation claimsin his case against Heard, 36, in response to her 2018 op-ed about coming forward as a survivor of domestic abuse.
The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages but Heard will onlyhave to pay $10.35 milliondue to a Virginia law capping punitive damages (the judge reduced the amount).
Additionally, Heard was awarded $2 million in damages for her counterclaims against Depp. The actress' attorney had previously said that Heard will"absolutely" appeal the verdictagainst her.
Heard previously called the verdict a “setback” for women and toldToday’sSavannah Guthriethatshe’s “scared” it will mean more “silencing"for survivors looking to come forward. (Depp, meanwhile, has maintained that he never laid a hand on Heard, and has accused herof physically harming him.)
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source: people.com
