Amber Heard Asks For Losing Defamation Verdict To Be Dropped Per Court Docs

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00:00Closing today with Amber Heard as her lawyer filed a 43-page document asking for her guilty

00:05verdict to be dropped following the defamation trial between her and Johnny Depp. On July 1st,

00:10the file docs claimed that the case's outcome wasn't sufficiently supported by the presented

00:15evidence. According to the New York Post, the motion stated that the Pirates of the Caribbean

00:19star proceeded solely on a defamation by implication theory, abandoning any claims

00:25that misheard statements were actually false. Recall that Johnny sued Amber in 2022 over a 2018

00:32op-ed piece that the actress published through the Washington Post claiming she was a victim of

00:37domestic abuse. Although she never explicitly named him in the article, Johnny claimed that the piece

00:42hurt his career significantly. Johnny went on to win the trial after he was awarded $10 million in

00:47compensatory damages. Despite everything, Amber announced that she was appealing the verdict in June.