{"id":48895,"date":"2022-06-01T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48895"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:16:43","slug":"johnny-depp-wins-defamation-trial-against-amber-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48895","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp wins defamation trial against Amber Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depp, 58, sued Heard, 36, for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed published by the Washington Post in which Heard described herself as a \u201cpublic figure representing domestic abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Virginia jury on Wednesday ruled both Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard, were liable for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Depp had sued Heard for $50 million in damages. In a $100 million counterclaim, Heard accused Depp of damaging her reputation by dubbing her a liar following her allegations of sexual violence against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The jury\u2019s decision brings an end to a star-studded trial that quickly swelled into a media firestorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depp, 58, sued Heard, 36, for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48901,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895\/revisions\/48901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}