Johnny Depp won a defamation suit against his former wife Amber Heard after a jury found that she had defamed Depp in saying that he had abused her over the course of their relationship.

The jury unanimously found that Heard could not substantiate her allegations against Depp and that she knew her claims of abuse were false when she published her 2018 essay.

The jury determined that Heard acted with actual malice when writing her op-ed. The jury awarded Depp USD 10 million in compensatory damages and USD 5 million in punitive damages in his defamation suit.