Poll of the Day > Depp won the defamation lawsuit with $8,350,000

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SInce it's part of the main trial....yes...

But Appealing is another trial altogether.

Nice try.

Wait Jen actually works in law, right?

I'm a PhD and an MD, been to space, and hold patents on the plastic ends you see on shoelaces.

Does this prove that we rrrrreeealllly need to "believe all women"....?

https://movieweb.com/johnny-depp-disney-exec-predicts-return-pirates/

"I absolutely believe post-verdict that Pirates is primed for rebooting with Johnny as Captain Jack back on board. There is just too much potential box-office treasure for a beloved character deeply embedded in the Disney culture. With [producer] Jerry Bruckheimer riding high on the massive success of Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, there is huge appetite for bringing back bankable Hollywood stars in massively popular franchises."

Suddenly Disney is all friendly, huh Adam?

Suddenly Disney is all friendly, huh Adam?

no opinion on it, so

they're both two extremely different situations

I still have a hard time believing Johnny can act well any more. As much as I laughed at the phycho, psychologist Heard's team brought out, I actually have to agree with him that Johnny's cognitive state has went down significantly. I mean Johnny could barely speak properly the second time he went to the stand & seem confused. It worked out well for him there because when he said he didn't recall something you believed it, but if you can barely testify, good luck being the protagonist in a movie. He seemed pretty washed.

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After humiliation in the courtroom, Amber Heard is now facing ostracism in Hollywood.

Did Amber ever really work in Hollywood? one Hollywood producer sniffed to Page Six.

What else has she really been in other than the Aquaman movie? I dont think she was ever really a hot ticket Johnny made her interesting.

Heard was hardly a household name when she hooked up with Johnny Depp on the set of The Rum Diaries in 2011.

Now everyone knows who she is just not in the way she wanted.

After the trial, Depp posted a statement on social media saying the jury gave me my life back, celebrities who liked it included Zoe Saldana, Emma Roberts, Gemma Chan, Taika Waititi, Jennifer Aniston, Henry Golding, Riley Keough and LaKeith Stanfield. Hollywood seemed to have turned on Heard.

Believe all women except Amber Heard, Chris Rock cracked during a May stand-up appearance.

I have no doubt Johnny will emerge with his good name and wonderful heart revealed to the world, Depps Dark Shadows co-star Eva Green posted to Instagram on May 19.

As for Heard making her own back back in Tinseltown, one high-placed studio source told Page Six: I think it will be very hard for her.

Even some people she once considered support have fallen away.

Sources told Page Six that Heard is no longer close to her former boyfriend Elon Musk.

During the trial, some of Heards former friends testified for her (although James Franco was on the witness list, he did not). Her ex-best friend and roommate, Raquel Pennington, said she was scared for Heard as she said Heard often had to cover bruises and injuries to her face with makeup.

But in her taped deposition, Pennington she and the actress hadnt spoken in at least six month, having grown apart after a Thanksgiving argument that turned violent.

This prompted Depps lawyer, Camille Vasquez, to tell the jury at the end of the trial: This is a woman who burns bridges. Her close friends dont show up for her. You may have noticed that no one showed up for Ms. Heard in this courtroom other than her sister every other witness who traveled to Virginia for her was a paid expert.

Another movie insider said of Heard: The majority of people think she has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and therefore its a dangerous route for someone to hire her. She showed no contrition even when things unravelled in court.

While major stars and the industry activist group Times Up mobilized around other high-profile #MeToo cases like Harvey Weinsteins and Bill Cosbys, there has been no such movement around the Depp-Heard trial, which involves allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Every single person who wore a Times Up pin on the red carpet of the Golden Globes, my question to you is, where are you and why are you not supporting Amber Heard? says Alison Turkos, an activist and sexual assault survivor who organized an open letter to Times Up last August when it was revealed that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought advice from top Times Up officials after he was accused of sexual harassment. Why are you not willing to risk your power or privilege? It is very easy for your stylist to put a pin on your outfit and for you to walk the red carpet. Now is the time for you to show up for survivors.

different, but related.

Again, Disney hemorrhaging money playing gender politics. Depp is recovering from being slandered. Both need a win, Disney moreso....

...but you're forgetting one thing....."He's Captain Jack Sparrow".

...no really, that's Sparrow's whole shtick, acting all drunk and whimsical as such. Wouldn't take much to get back in that role.

Also that whole slurred speech thing, is because of ADD and anxiety issues he admitted having all his life, which could explain his substance abuse issues which is not uncommon among those types. And obviously doesn't bode well being in an abusive relationship with a psyhco-bitch like Heard either, probably sent him over the edge.

A proven scumbag receiving some sweet karma.
Hilarious.

You can really tell who the angry incels are when reading through topics like this.

You can really tell who the angry incels are when reading through topics like this.

You can really tell who the angry incels are when reading through topics like this.

Well, I suppose everyone that watched the case are incels then because I haven't heard of anyone that watched that case and believed Amber. Almost everyone is unanimously against her that watch it. It is actually pretty amazing there is this much agreement on something.

It's a good thing they are in the minority.

The majority of people believe that Amber is being criticized for her abuse of Johnny, not because of her gender.

The only people commenting that the majority of people supporting Johnny are "incels" are misandrists who are too dumb to do any critical thinking. They are also too dumb to realize that they are infantilizing women by saying that any valid criticism thrown towards a woman is too much, which actually hurts women.

Theyre both pieces of shit

I give you an A for effort.

https://youtu.be/HMeaBvJI5_w?t=229

Legal Eagle covering the verdict.
3:49 - 4:22 and 6:59 - 7:18 in particular is pretty good. Really shuts down some narratives.
I'll link directly to 3:49 in the video, just to help. :)

Soo..... what'd Depp do that warrants $2million?

The publists he had went rogue to make a bunch of defamatory statements online about Heard, after the UK trial. But Depp has since fired that guy, as those statements weren't approved by him. However, Depp still had to own the statement, so he has to pay....but Depp's net worth is like $150,000,000 so it's a parking ticket to him.

But what was explained on the video is that in order for Heard to do ANYTHING next, she needs to pay up the $10,350,000 first. The Appeals Court isn't going to do anything for her, until that is settled. That is it, end of story...

huh, sounds like that since it was already proven as defamatory that Depp should have no trouble suing his former publicist/whoever to recoup some

no she doesn't.

if she doesn't appeal, then yes, she does.

But she will never be able to satisfy the judgment with a regular job. She won't even be able to make a dent in the post-judgment interest that would accrue. If the judgment is not vacated or massively reduced, she simply cannot make enough income with a regular job.

This case perfectly illustrates the consequences of asymmetrical interests in litigation and taking actions that provide little upside while creating potential exposure to massive liability. He had a strong incentive to pursue the case to rehabilitate his reputation and public perception and had little to lose and much to gain. In constrast, she had little to gain and much more to lose by publishing the op-ed and defending the lawsuit.

i actually don't think that he would have won had he not pushed for it to be aired live

okay well he agreed to it, at the very least

get fucked amber lmao

The real problem with her defense can be found when she looks in the mirror.

Kathy Griffin didn't mince words when asked for her opinion of Johnny Depp this week, calling him an "orange, fat, bloated boozebag."

Griffin prefaced her statements by saying she's "friends with Amber Heard," adding, "I completely believe her."

She said the verdict was "really disturbing" to her as a woman and a feminist.

Referring to the testimony of several female witnesses, and the possible pressure they felt to "change their tune," she said "nobody wants to get Kathy Griffin-ed, as I was very famously canceled and blacklisted and all that stuff."

i forgot entirely that she existed

I hope she appeals citing inadequate representation if she can. Her attorneys were absolutely horrible.

Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist who testified for Amber Heard in Johnny Depps defamation trial with his ex-wife, said that he has suffered horrific post-trial backflow from reactions to his experience on the witness stand.

Never in my life have I been the target of such voluminous amounts of hate, ever, he wrote in a first-person piece posted Friday in Newsweek. I will process the emotion, but it will always be there; the knowledge that I was on the receiving end of such venom.

Spiegel said the online blowback got so intense that he was forced to shut down comments on his his WebMD page after Johnny Depp supporters review-bombed the site with negative comments. My WebMD page has now been closed to comments, but if you looked at the site beforehand there were probably seven or eight reviews and all of a sudden on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24 there were hundreds, so it was pretty obvious what had happened, Spiegel wrote.

Im an adult, its not the first time Ive been criticized, but never like that, he added. On that Monday and Tuesday I had what Id describe as an emotional concussion. It wasnt physical, I didnt get hit on the head, it was emotional because the feedback afterwards left me a little on the numb and dazed side.

Spiegel, who had been hired by Heards legal team, testified that Depps behavior was consistent with someone that both has substance use disorder as well as behaviors of someone who is a perpetrator of intimate partner violence.

However, Depps lawyers grilled Spiegel on cross-examination on the fact that he had never evaluated Depp and suggested that his testimony was a violation of the American Psychiatric Associations Goldwater Rule that discourages psychiatrists from attempting to diagnose people who are not patients.

Following the backlash, Spiegel has gone offline and told his family to do the same at least for a few weeks. But it probably still is a little bit hurtful for them to see the attacks on me, and for the patients Ive had relationships with for years, he said.

Spiegel also said he was disappointed by the jurys verdict siding with Depp, saying that Heard should have received much more of an outpouring of support than she did.