Jury reaches verdict in Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial that will be announced at 3pm
BREAKING NEWS: Jury reaches verdict in Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial that will be announced TODAY at 3pm after three days of deliberations
The jury has reached a verdict in the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial The verdict will be read aloud in court at 3pm EST in Fairfax County, Virginia Johnny remains in London, where he has been performing with friends’ bands He will watch the verdict with the rest of the world on a video stream Amber Heard is expected to be in court for the verdict but she has not yet been seen The trial gripped the world for weeks and revealed the darkest secrets of the couple’s toxic marriage
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The jury has reached a verdict in the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard defamation trial and it will be announced at 3pm EST today.
The jury deliberated for three days before announcing shortly before 2pm on Wednesday that they had reached a verdict.
They have 42 questions to consider in the issue of whether Amber defamed Johnny in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed about abuse.
Johnny will not be in court for the decision – he remains in London where he has been performing over the weekend in a band.
Johnny Depp is shown in London today. He flew there at the end of last week at the conclusion of the trial. He will watch the verdict via video link today
Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez is shown arriving at the Fairfax County Courthouse on Wednesday
Amber Heard, shown on May 27 at the end of the trial, is expected to attend court for the reading of the verdict
His hotshot attorney Camille Vasquez is at court in Fairfax County, Virginia, where the trial has played out in front of the world for the last several months.
He is expected to tune in to a televised stream of the verdict whereas Amber is expected to be there in person.
Among those in the audience to watch one of Johnny’s London performances was Kate Moss – his British ex-girlfriend who took the stand at the trial to defend him.
It brings an end to the dramatic defamation trial that has gripped the world for weeks and shed new light on the couple’s toxic 2015 marriage.
The saga began when Johnny sued Amber for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post, which did not name him but in which she detailed overcoming domestic abuse and violence.
Their divorce had already been publicly picked apart and allegations of abuse were contained in court records.
At the trial, Johnny’s attorneys painted Amber as a fame-hungry liar who staged photos while sporting bruises in an effort to smear his name and garner sympathy.
Her attorneys said she was being forced to relive the trauma of their marriage and divorce on a world stage, and that she just wanted to move on with her life as a mother.
The jury is deciding which of them is at fault and who should be awarded damages.
Johnny initially sued Amber for $50million and she countersued for $100million.
