The lawyer for Hollywood actor Amber Heard says her client will not be able to pay millions in damages to Johnny Depp. Elaine Charlson Bredehoft was speaking after the Pirates of the Caribbean actor won his defamation suit against his ex-wife.
Mr Depp had sued Ms Heard for $50m after he says she defamed him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. He was not named in the piece, but Mr Depp's claim was founded on the impact that the intimation she was abused had on his work.
Ms Heard had pursued a $100m counterclaim. Jurors found on Wednesday (June 1) that Mr Depp had proven the newspaper piece titled: “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change" was defamatory.
