Amber Heard, Johnny Depp Deliberations Totaled Just Over Half a Day

The jury in the Amber Heard v. Johnny Depp defamation trial reached a verdict on Wednesday afternoon after just 12 hours and 45 minutes of deliberation.

Closing arguments in the trial were heard on Friday and the jury has been deliberating since then, taking a break for the Memorial Day weekend and coming back on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon the jury announced they have reached a verdict.

Depp sued ex-wife Heard for $50 million following an op-ed the actress wrote in which Depp argued she defamed him by claiming to be a victim of domestic abuse.

The verdict was read live in court on June 1 at 3 p.m. ET, and the jury ruled almost entirely in Depp's favor.

While many had predicted several different verdict outcomes, the jury found that Depp proved his ex-wife defamed him on all three counts.

The three statements from Heard's op-ed that were the subject of the defamation trial were:

• "I spoke up against sexual violence—and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change."
• "Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out."
• "I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse."

The jury found that all three statements proved to be defamatory against Depp, also ruling that they found Depp proved Heard acted with actual malice when making all three statements. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor was awarded $15 million in damages.

Heard was awarded $2 million in damages in a partial win for her counterclaim, as the jury ruled that one of the three statements made by Depp's attorney, Adam Waldman, proved to be defamatory against Heard.

Still, Heard released a statement following the verdict reading, saying, "The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband."

"I'm sad I lost this case," she said. "But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American—to speak freely and openly."

Meanwhile, Depp stated that he is "humbled" by the verdict.

"Six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled," Depp wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. "I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation, and that those supporting them never give up."

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