It’s something a little different for this crowd, but the civil lawsuits between Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and his former wife, actress Amber Heard, have concluded. A jury found Ms. Heard acted with malicious intent when she defamed her former husband Mr. Depp with accusations of abuse.
The jury awarded Mr. Depp $10 million in compensatory damages, and $5 million in punitive damages which are an outcome of the ‘malicious intent‘ finding. However, the punitive damages are limited by law to $350,000. On the three specific issues cited for consideration by the jury, the jurors all found Ms. Heard was guilty of lying, fabricating and targeting her former spouse with false claims. {LINK} Result, Ms. Heard owes Mr. Depp $10,350,000.
Additionally, for her side of the countersuit, Ms. Heard was awarded $2 million as compensatory damages against Mr. Depp’s lawyer for one issue within a Daily Mail article where the Depp representative accused Ms. Heard of manufacturing a confrontation for publicity. The net result of all the legal action is Ms. Heard owes Mr Depp $8.35 million.
With the three major issues around the litigation determined by the jury in favor of Mr. Depp, the actor released the following statement:


…”Strategic success in the 21st century is not about a physical land grab of territory; that’s what Putin has done. In this century, strategic power is increasingly measured and exercised by economic strength, by technological sophistication and your story – who you are, what your values are; can you attract ideas and talent and goodwill? And on each of those measures, this will be a failure for Russia.”
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Everything surrounding the propaganda push continues unabated. The public image of Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now maintained by Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Silicon Valley contracts. All the best people, you know, the ‘elites’, the cool kids, are flowing in one direction.