Compensation is "excessive": Heard's lawyers are calling for the verdict to be overturned

Amber Heard has been ordered to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages for defamation.

Compensation is "excessive": Heard's lawyers are calling for the verdict to be overturned

Amber Heard has been ordered to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages for defamation. The actress now wants to take legal action against this: her lawyers are applying for the verdict to be overturned.

British actress Amber Heard is appealing the jury verdict after the trial of her ex-husband Johnny Depp. Heard's attorneys moved to have the actress' sentence overturned. This emerges from a document reported by the US media.

After a six-week defamation trial, in which the ex-husbands accused themselves of domestic violence, the jury largely sided with Depp at the beginning of June - but also agreed with Heard on some points. She has to pay Depp more than $10 million in damages for defamation. Depp owes her $2 million for statements by his ex-lawyer that allegedly damaged Heard's reputation, according to the jury's decision.

At the heart of the civil lawsuit filed by Depp was a 2018 comment published by the Washington Post in which Heard described himself as a victim of domestic violence. She didn't name Depp, but the Pirates of the Caribbean star saw herself as a victim of false testimony and is suing for $50 million in defamation damages.

In a 43-page report, Heard's lawyers argued, among other things, that Depp falsely claimed to have lost his role in the Pirates of the Caribbean films because of the Washington Post comment. The lawyers also described the amount that Heard had to pay to her ex-partner as "excessive", reported the British newspaper "The Guardian".

In addition to substantive arguments, they now also accuse the court of not having checked the identity of a juror. "It is unclear whether Juror No. 15 was actually ever called to serve on a jury or was qualified to serve on the panel." Judge Penney Azcarate has previously indicated that she is not inclined to schedule further hearings in the case.