In the piece,\u00a0published in December 2018, Heard alluded to her previous claims that Depp had assaulted her during their marriage, though she did not identify him by name.<\/p>\n
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Judge Bruce D. White ruled on Friday that Depp can proceed under the theory that Heard\u2019s statements clearly implied that Depp had assaulted her.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaintiff has pleaded circumstances that would reasonably cause three of the four statements at issue to convey the alleged defamatory meaning that Mr. Depp abused Ms. Heard, and this alleged meaning is in fact defamatory,\u201d White wrote.<\/p>\n
Depp filed the\u00a0$50 million suit\u00a0in March 2019, taking issue with the headline of the piece and several statements within it that implied he was an abuser.<\/p>\n
The headline was: \u201cAmber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence \u2014 and faced our culture\u2019s wrath. That has to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the body of the column, she wrote: \u201cThen two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture\u2019s wrath for women who speak out.\u201d She also wrote: \u201cI had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heard first accused Depp of abusing her in 2016, in the context of their divorce. Depp has said throughout that the allegations are false, and are a hoax conjured to help Heard\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
Heard\u2019s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, urged the court last fall to throw out the suit, arguing that the column was fundamentally not about Heard\u2019s allegations against Depp.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was about her and what happened to her after she came forward,\u201d Kaplan argued.<\/p>\n
White rejected that argument, finding that the column \u201crelied on the factual underpinning that Ms. Heard was abused by Mr. Depp.\u201d<\/p>\n
White did throw out Depp\u2019s defamation claim with regard to a fourth statement in the piece. In that statement, she wrote about receiving death threats, and being followed by paparazzi on the rare occasions when she left her home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt as though I was on trial in the court of public opinion \u2014 and my life and livelihood depended on myriad judgments far beyond my control,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
White held that the statement carried no defamatory implication against Depp. White also rejected Heard\u2019s attorneys\u2019 claim that the suit was barred by the one-year statute of limitations, because Heard was merely alluding to statements that had first been made in 2016.<\/p>\n
Heard\u2019s attorneys have said that if necessary, they intend to show that she was, in fact, abused.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s decision leaves it to a jury to decide the meaning of Ms. Heard\u2019s op-ed and the truth of what she said,\u201d Kaplan said Friday. \u201cAs we have said all along, the courts have strong mechanisms in place for determining the truth. Here, we remain confident that Ms. Heard will prevail at trial when the jury is presented with evidence on the question that the Court identified \u2013 namely, whether \u2018Ms. Heard was abused by Mr. Depp.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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