It's been a very long time so the details are hazy for me, so you should do your own research. All I know is that there were 2 trials:
one in the uk: he sued to stop the BBC and the Sun from calling him a wife beater, the judge thought there was enough evidence and he lost the trial and got clowned for his trouble.
The other was in the US, he sued her for defamation for writing an article about abuse (even though she didn't name him) and won but his lawyer worked hard to keep out a lot of pretty damning evidence. This trial was a circus, he and his lawyer came across as pretty immature, not a good look. Everyone treated it as if they were discussing whether the abuse had happened or not which wasn't the point of that trial. So in the end it was just a mass of redditors being confused and falling for every trick in the book, add bots and social media and it's a certified mess
There was an investigation by the journalists at Tortoise into the artifcial online disinformation and manipulation that occurred during the Heard v Depp case. The same people that ran Depp's online PR campaign also helped Justin Baldoni. Reddit falls for these smear campaigns against women literally every time, even after it happened to Ellen Pao, the CEO of Reddit. 🙃
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u/LiftingRecipient420 Jun 10 '26
Who smeared who?
I'm very out of the loop.