Despite Winning Defamation Case, Johnny Depp Is A Legally Proven 'Wife Beater.' Here's How
When Sushant Singh Rajput had tragically passed away, the amount of hate spewed at Rhea Chakraborty was unfair. How could the public decide who's the culprit??
Recently, Amber Heard became a target of trolls and hate even before the verdict was announced. Do you know while Johnny Depp has won the defamation suit filed against Amber Heard, he is still a legally proven "wife beater?" Here's how.
How is Johnny Depp a "wife-beater" legally?
Depp might have won the defamation case for a 2018 article in which Amber Heard called him for domestic abuse, but it is to be noted that his victory isn't absolute.?
The court has awarded him a compensation of $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages. Heard, on the other hand, has also been given $2 million in compensatory damages.?
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Depp might have won this defamation case in the US, but in the UK he is a legally proven wife beater.?
For the unversed, Depp had sued the?executive editor and publisher of the British tabloid?The Sun for libel?in 2018 for publishing an article that claimed he abused Amber Heard. He was called a "wife-beater", an allegation that Depp until today denies.?
The case was fought in the UK, at London's?Royal Courts of Justice. After 16 days of trial,?14 alleged assaults were heard in the court. Amber Heard was also called to testify.?
What was the verdict??
The judge, after 16 days, announced that out of 14 incidents, 12 incidents of domestic violence had occurred. Hence, The Sun had proven that its article was?substantially true.
"Taking all the evidence together, I accept that she was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr Depp in Australia.?I accept her evidence of the nature of the assaults he committed against her. They must have been terrifying", the judge had said.?
"It is a sign of the depth of his rage that he admitted scrawling graffiti in blood from his injured finger and then, when that was insufficient, dipping his badly injured finger in paint and continuing to write messages and other things," the judge said.
The judge had added that "a recurring theme in Mr Depp¡¯s evidence was that Ms Heard had constructed a hoax and that she had done this as an insurance policy" and that Heard was a "gold-digger". Furthermore, the judge had said that he doesn't accept the "characterisation" of Heard.?
Since the UK case was against The Sun and not Amber Heard, the US case could still continue. It is to be noted that the case in the UK was heard by a judge, while the case in the US was heard by the jury.?
Therefore, although Johnny Depp might have won the defamation case against Amber Heard in the US, he remains a legally proven "wife-beater" in the UK.?
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