There was a one-time message on the dress that Amber Heard wore to court yesterday, but now some are making fun of the star for the symbolic move.
Eagle-eyed fans of the ongoing Amber Heard and Johnny Depp saga have spotted a striking resemblance between Heard’s legal costumes.
He appears to have been wearing the same black “funeral gown” on the day he filed a restraining order against Johnny Depp in 2016, as well as in 2020 when he attended a court in the UK against him. And he took it back on Thursday when the verdict of the defamation trial was decided.
The jury awarded Depp, 58, $ 10 million ($ 14 million) in compensatory damages and $ 5 million ($ 7 million) in punitive damages. Virginia law states that punitive damages must be capped at $ 350,000 ($ 480,000), which means Depp will receive a maximum total of $ 10.35 million ($ 14.24 million). Heard received $ 2 million ($ 2.75 million) in compensatory damages and no punitive damages.
Heard, 36, wore an all-black suit that day, but the dress looked strangely familiar.
In March 2021, Heard posted photos of the same dress, one in 2016 in the middle of her divorce and another in 2020 that came out of a UK court, on Instagram with the headline: “A dress, four years of “Sometimes it ‘s important to wear the same clothes twice.”
So, of course, when Twitter users saw the famous dress again, they researched Heard’s fashion options.
“Sometimes it’s important to wear the same dress three times. The day you ruined his life, the day you agreed to lie in court, the day you lost, ”a Twitter user wrote.
“This showman pony planned to use the verdict as a public relations stunt when he put on his ‘Amish suit’ for the third time, all the PR in the world can’t fix his reputation now. We’ve all heard the tapes of audio, they show the real Amber Heard, “said one.
“Isn’t @realamberheard trying to do something with the same ugly funeral dress? Ma’am, just burn it,” wrote a third party.
“I LOVE Amber Heard wearing the same black dress she wore for the restraining order, the UK trial and now the U.S. trial where she lost a lot. I’m sure she was trying a kind at the moment “poetic justice” summed up by a dress. But it lost and it was a total failure, “tweeted another.
Despite his loss to his ex-spouse, Heard is expected to appeal the amount he owes.
“No one will write a check until the case is finally resolved, whether it is an appeal or a motion for a new trial, but there will be more litigation before knowing who charges what,” said Halim Dhanidina, a former California judge. and the current criminal defense attorney said The mail before.
Even Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, continued Todaythat “she has excellent reasons” to appeal. On the show, he blamed “deleted evidence” for Heard’s loss.
“They were able to delete the medical records, which were very, very significant because they showed a pattern that goes back to 2012 when Amber reported it to her therapist, for example,” she said. “We had a significant amount of text messages, including Mr. Depp’s assistants, saying, ‘When I told you I had kicked you, he cried, he knows a lot.’
That didn’t come in. ”
In 2020, Depp sued The sun to call him a “women’s hitter” in a 2018 article, but the judge ruled in favor of the tabloid in November 2020, saying Heard’s allegations were “substantially true.” However, this time, it was a different story.
Heard was held responsible for defamation on three counts, while Depp was only responsible for one.
“This is a setback for women inside and outside the room,” Ms Bredehoft said. CBS Mornings. “What this jury said is that if you don’t record it, it won’t happen.”
While Heard did not appear on the air, he made a statement after the verdict.
“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words,” Heard wrote. “It hurts me that the mountain of evidence was still not enough to deal with my ex-husband’s disproportionate power, influence and dominance.”
She claimed to be “publicly embarrassed” and “humiliated”, arguing that she had lost her right to “freedom of expression”.
Turned on CBS Mornings, New York News Journalist Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reports saw Harvey Weinstein finally imprisoned, spoke in the #MeToo conversation about Heard.
“The way Amber Heard was attacked was, in a way, very familiar,” Kantor said. “There was a lot of misogyny we’ve seen before. There was a kind of armament of the online reputation war. There was almost this hate machine built against it.”
She said it is a “frightening prospect” for women who want to do justice to their abusers, now fearing they will face a defamation suit in return.
Even after the verdict was declared, Heard still faces a negative reaction to the trial in the form of social media trolls.
“I had never seen it at that level and aimed at a woman with that intensity,” Kantor said.
This story originally appeared on page six and is being republished here with permission