A Virginia jury decided to support actor Johnny Depp On Wednesday, it found that the Washington Post had written a letter to his ex-wife Amber Heard was careless.

The jury has awarded Depp $10 million in compensation and $5 million in damages. Minutes later, the panel returned a mixed verdict in a herd proceeding, awarding him $2 million in compensation.

Depp did not attend because he flew to London. Unexpected performance Over the weekend, however, the hearing was held in court before the verdict was read and he was looking at the table in front of him.

The pack has publicly claimed that Depp has been physically abused during their relationship since 2016. It started with the 2011 movie The Rum Diary and ended with a brief marriage. Depp says that he was insulted and lost his role in a lucrative movie due to the herd’s accusations.

“Six years later, the jury gave me my life back,” Depp said in a statement on Instagram following the decision. “I am very humble”.

The jury prepared six weeks of discussion and testimony to answer difficult questions about the case, such as whether the accusations were “de facto evil” and whether the legal standards were high. The identity of the jury is sealed, but CourtTV broadcasts a video of the hearing live. report From inside the courtroom, the panel clearly consisted of five men and two women between the ages of 20 and 60.

A British court ruled in favor of the pack in late 2020 after a similar question about the relationship turned out to be abusive. He was insulted. There was a statement: “It is essentially true.” It is said in the verdict of Judge Andrew Nicole.

The Washington Post editorial, published in 2018, was at the center of a US lawsuit filed in court in Fairfax, Virginia.

With the help of a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union, the pack wrote an article describing themselves as survivors of domestic violence; It’s not obvious, but without mentioning Depp. In this work, Hard is called “a public figure representing domestic violence.”

The civil trial in Virginia, which took place in Virginia because the Washington Post was published in Virginia, began in mid-April and featured lengthy testimony from both plaintiffs. A march of experts, including a duel of psychiatric experts trying to diagnose Herds and Depp, lists witnesses, along with family members, former friends, colleagues, law enforcement officers and major figures in the entertainment industry.

Depp’s defenders confirmed that social media references to the trial were heavily skewed in favor of the Pirates of the Caribbean star. Anyone who demonstrated the tendency is at risk of verbal attacks and online harassment. Every day outside the courtroom, a crowd of Depp supporters (mainly women) carried homemade banners, their black van drove back to the courtroom entrance, and when the actors appeared, they cheered, shouting reggae music. ..

Concerns from groups supporting survivors of domestic violence, with Vitriol firearms appearing online targeting herds, said the play could hinder victims’ progress.

Depp’s team has gone to great lengths to attract the attention of a multitude of people who have taken notice of his story. Camille Vasquez, one of his lawyers who became a breakout star in Depp’s adoration, repeatedly told the court that the pack was a “liar” who wanted the world to “believe his lies.”

Much of the testimony shared at trial was about opposing a series of alleged incidents of violence during the relationship, such as a private jet ride allegedly hitting hard and hitting the ground when Depp was away. With actor James Franco who accuses him of love. Depp, shown in the post yard, showed that he was taking medication and alcohol at the time. Depp’s assistant then told the crowd in a text message that the actor had to be informed of what had happened on the plane, and when he heard this, he cried and vowed to correct his actions. According to the assistant’s text, Depp wanted to meet the herd in person, but decided to book his plane away from him.

Other records presented in court have repeatedly supported versions of pack events. He saw physical evidence that Depp, who wrote an essay for the couple’s former mutual friend IO Tillett Wright Refinery29 in 2016, was a rapist, and called police during their fight in court testimony. Some of the former friends who were fired described Depp as unstable.

Perhaps the most upsetting episode occurred in March 2015 at an Australian palace that Depp rented while filming the fifth pirate movie. The couple married on Depp’s private island just a month ago.

The pack showed that Depp had consumed an unknown amount of drugs and alcohol for three days, began to get angry with it, hung him on the wall, ripped his nightgown and at some point sexually assaulted him with a bottle of alcohol. ..he ran into his room and said that the house was completely confused when he came out a few hours later.

“I was scared,” he said. “I just married him.”

A photo of the house presented in court shows the mysterious message that, as the pack said, it was blood from one of Depp’s fingers, which was partially severed. The jury heard two explanations about the injury. Depp said he cut his fingertips when the pack threw a glass bottle, and said the pack thought it happened while Depp was destroying a landline phone. Walls, mirrors, and at least one lampshade were exposed to graphite. This was also done with paint.

Due to this incident, Disney suspended production of the movie Pirates and Depp was sent back to Los Angeles for emergency surgery. This is an expensive move for the studio.

Tracy Jacobs, the agent who represented Depp for 30 years, testifies that she became an actress. The increasingly troublesome shooting speech in the later years of their business relationship, they didn’t know all of her lines. They showed up hours late. She said that she had to fly to Australia twice to deal with it while she was creating Fif Spirates.

The actor has been outspoken about battling drug and alcohol addiction in the past. In his testimony, he told how the worldwide success of the Pirates franchise could radically change his life, making it difficult to interact with children and becoming a substance based on complex emotions, he said.

But he refused to explain it as a problem.

“I am not a maniac who always has to be expensive,” he told the court.

Depp not only did not attack the herd, he testified, he had never touched a woman in his life. Her traumatic childhood with an abusive mother is said to have kept her from physical violence.

Depp said it was the herd that gave him “harassment” and “derogatory names”. One of the most popular audio clips at trial admitted to beating up his ex-husband and featured a herd saying, “Little people, you’re not a fist.” The herd of “bashing” confirmed that it counteracted Depp’s alleged tendency to use exaggerated words for dramatic effect.

Depp said he simply stayed away from their discussion.

But his ex-wife described a cycle in which Depp was upset, reappeared, became calmer, and probably disappeared into the stem until he decided not to do any bad things. Text messages read in court and Depp’s email revealed many references to “freaks,” a term from his side that likely came up when he was drunk, high, or both. In his message, he repeatedly apologized.

The Flock told the jury at one point that he stayed on Depp because he believed he could change, which could have been very attractive when he was quiet. Researchers One of the most common patterns of abusive relationships found is partner switching between violence, apologies, and playful behavior.

However, Depp’s lawyer accused the herd of explicit falsification. This undermines Depp’s reputation for his multi-year conspiracy against his financial interests, suggesting that Hard may have doctored a digital photo with a bruise on his face. .. Instead of appearing to be victims of domestic violence, the pack made “subtle, exaggerated and fantastic reports of violence” and allowed the court to “take notice of their lives,” Basquez said.

The pack’s lawyer, Benjamin Rotenborn, reached his conclusions to explain Depp’s accusations as very damaging. “The accusations of the victims are the most repugnant.”

“If you didn’t take a picture, that wouldn’t happen. If you take a picture, it’s fake,” Rottenborn said of Depp.

“They are trying to trick you. I think the amber must be perfect to win,” he told the court.