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– –<\/span> After being forced to pay her ex-husband over $10 million in damages, Amber Heard has formally filed an appeal in her defamation case against Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n According to court papers obtained by DailyMail.com, the 36-year-old actress\u2019 attorneys appealed the decision on Thursday at the Virginia Court of Appeals in Fairfax County.<\/p>\n The action was taken just one week after Heard\u2019s appeal for a fresh trial was turned down.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> At the conclusion of a contentious six-week trial, the Aquaman actor was ordered to pay Depp $10.35 million in damages in June after a jury found that an opinion piece she wrote for a publication in 2018 had defamed Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n Depp, 59, received a total payout of $15 million, including $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> Later, the judge set the maximum allowable damages for the state at $350,000, leaving Depp with a total recovery of $8.35 million.<\/p>\n Heard, in comparison, only succeeded in one of her three countersuit claims, which was connected to Depp\u2019s attorney\u2019s comments that suggested Heard and her companions had wrecked their flat before calling the police.<\/p>\n Out of the $100 million she sought in compensatory damages, the jury finally gave her just $2 million, and punitive damages were not given.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – After being forced to pay her ex-husband over $10 million in damages, Amber Heard has formally filed an appeal in her defamation case against Johnny Depp. According to court papers obtained by DailyMail.com, the 36-year-old actress\u2019 attorneys appealed the decision on Thursday at the Virginia Court of Appeals in Fairfax County. The action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1128267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13116,1101,1643,1003,9167,7384,8248,15908,1589],"class_list":["post-1155411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amber","tag-appeal","tag-case","tag-defamation","tag-depp","tag-files","tag-heard","tag-johnny","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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