Amber Heard has formally appealed the decision in Johnny Depp’s defamation case, with her lawyers citing what they believe are several errors made at trial, including allowing the case to be heard in Virginia and refusing to allow communications between Heard and certain doctors to be admitted into evidence.
In June, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, the latter being reduced to $350,000 in line with Virginia law, after Heard was found liable for defaming him in a Washington Post article.
Heard, who countersued, was awarded $2 million at the same time after the jury found Depp responsible for a comment his then-attorney Adam Waldman made about Heard, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Heard’s appeal was filed on November 23 with the Virginia Court of Appeals.
Depp originally sued Heard for $50 million in March 2019, alleging that an article in the Virginia-based Washington Post described him as a perpetrator of “sexual violence” that cost him tens of millions of dollars in lost work.