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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been clear for some time now that cancel culture—for famous people at least—doesn’t exist. Clear that abusers can act with impunity, be exposed by the people who survived their behavior, weather a brief storm, then carry on with their lives as if almost nothing happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_98603']It was clear in 2014 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-billcosby/sold-out-cosby-show-goes-ahead-amid-sex-assault-claims-idINKCN0J51Y220141122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Cosby continued to perform sold-out shows\u003c/a> after the first wave of sexual assault allegations against him emerged. It was clear when Johnny Depp supporters grew more vocal \u003cem>after\u003c/em> a U.K. court found the actor responsible for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustained and multiple assaults\u003c/a>” against Amber Heard. And it was definitely clear when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roman Polanski\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892800/allen-v-farrow-is-the-most-damning-indictment-of-woody-allen-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woody Allen\u003c/a>, decades after multiple accusations from underage girls became public, continued to receive accolades and standing ovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone else got a standing ovation recently: Ryan Adams. The singer-songwriter was \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/music/news/ryan-adams-new-team-concerts-move-past-allegations-1235284292/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applauded for five straight minutes\u003c/a> by an adoring audience at Carnegie Hall in May. It was his first show since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/arts/music/ryan-adams-women-sex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> detailed claims by seven women of sexual misconduct. His accusers—who described a pattern of emotional manipulation, coercion, and offers of professional help that were contingent on personal intimacy—included Phoebe Bridgers and Adams’ ex-wife, Mandy Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams’ “crisis-PR specialist” Howard Bragman told \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> on June 3: “We want to show that he has a real team behind him that believes in him and supports him, and that he’s putting a life together. We want people to notice, and if they want to move forward with him, here’s where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What America has learned over and over again since #MeToo hit the mainstream in 2017 is that there will never be a shortage of people who support celebrities after they’ve been accused of monstrous things. If you have acted in movies or made music that people love; if you are handsome or can make people laugh; if you are charming in enough interviews over a long enough period of time, America will forgive you for just about anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Louis C.K. Almost five years after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/10/563316860/louis-c-k-admits-to-sexual-harassment-of-multiple-female-comedians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitting to indecent exposure and masturbation\u003c/a> in front of multiple unwilling women, the comedian just won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The lauded \u003cem>Sincerely Louis C.K\u003c/em> album includes extensive commentary about his inappropriate behavior that minimizes the distress of the women involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911520']“I like jerking off,” he jokes at one point. “I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you. I get lonely. It’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark. You’d gather folks and amaze them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams and C.K. are far from the only disgraced celebrities getting back on their feet this year, after brief withdrawals from public life prompted by credible allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other pertinent examples include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Kevin Spacey, who announced an upcoming starring role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13542474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>1242—Gateway to the West\u003c/em>\u003c/a> directly after being charged in the U.K. with four counts of sexual assault against three men\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Danny Masterson, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/danny-mastersons-sexual-assault-trial-everything-to-know/booted-from-the-ranch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused of multiple sexual assaults\u003c/a> (and of using fellow Scientologists to harass his accusers) has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2525576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie with Richard Dreyfuss\u003c/a> in the can, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774090/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another on the horizon\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as New York governor last summer after allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/a-cuomo-comeback-hollywood-metoo-fail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually harassing 11 women\u003c/a>, has\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/andrew-cuomos-comeback-is-going-somewhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> started making public speeches again\u003c/a>, possibly ramping up to a political campaign\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeffrey Tambor, who was accused by co-workers of sexual harassment and aggression in 2017, has a new movie—\u003ca href=\"https://www.drunkymovie.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Adventures of Drunky\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—in post-production\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeremy Piven has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11278608/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new movie coming out this year\u003c/a>, despite three women accusing him of sexual misconduct in 2018. (This one is not terribly surprising—Piven already has a successful \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-u-livin-j-piven-podcast/id1573997895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast\u003c/a> and several prominent \u003ca href=\"https://luxurycigarclub.com/collections/the-jeremy-piven-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">business ventures\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In April, Charlie Rose posted an interview with Warren Buffett to his website as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/charlie-rose-attempts-metoo-comeback-5-years-after-cbs-firing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comeback attempt\u003c/a>, following multiple accusations of sexual harassment that got him fired from CBS and PBS in 2017\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Months after 12 women came forward to accuse Marilyn Manson of physical and sexual abuse—and just three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood detailed her experiences with him in an HBO documentary\u003c/a>—#MarilynMansonIsInnocent is the most common hashtag associated with the singer on Twitter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember the sense of empowerment women enjoyed in 2017 and 2018? Remember the widely held idea at the time that bad men would finally pay for what they had done? Remember the liberation of talking openly about harassment endured and assaults survived, without shame or hesitation? The time Amber Heard did just that, without even naming her alleged abuser, before being found guilty of defamation for it? Let’s take a pause and remember those feelings. Let’s take a pause and mourn how far in the rearview it feels in 2022. And then, let’s try and get that sense of purpose back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13865685']It’s not just statutes of limitation and systemic sexism keeping abuse survivors from receiving proper justice at this point. It’s audiences. Audiences that will look the other way as long as the song is good enough, or the joke is funny enough, or the artist is handsome enough. Audiences that continue to prioritize the comfort and success of men over the pain and suffering of women. (And given that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587671849/a-new-survey-finds-eighty-percent-of-women-have-experienced-sexual-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">81% of women have experienced sexual harassment\u003c/a>, and 1 in 5 have experienced attempted or completed rape, it’s not a small amount of suffering.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have long been a fan of Ryan Adams. I own many of his records and have seen him perform too many times to count. When I told fellow Adams fans in my life why I would no longer support him, one responded by covering her ears and asking me not to spoil it. She will continue, she tells me, to attend his concerts. What he allegedly did to those women is not, she tells me, her problem. Except it is. It’s all of our problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we show up for these men, it tells survivors—all survivors everywhere—that what happened to them doesn’t matter. It tells them that the songs we like, the movies we love, and the jokes that make us laugh are more important than survivors’ pain. And they’re not—regardless of the “comebacks” you may see this year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The verdict is in, and it’s strangely fitting: Everybody lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, a jury came to the conclusion that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had defamed each other after a livestreamed trial that was as long as it was disturbing. In the end, the jury awarded Depp $10.35 million of the $50 million he sought from his ex-wife over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> op-ed\u003c/a> in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” They awarded Heard $2 million of the $100 million she sought when she counter-sued him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the difference in amounts, the person who lost the most in this trial is Amber Heard. Heard, whose life has been on hold for the last four years while her ex-husband doggedly pursued her and dragged her through courts on both sides of the Atlantic. Heard, who has been painted online as a conniving villain despite a British High Court judge concluding in 2020 that she “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr. Depp\u003c/a>.” Heard, who survived an obviously excruciating marriage, only to become the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1104925752/amber-heard-says-social-media-was-a-factor-for-her-defamation-trial-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excruciating public ridicule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, May 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s clear that Depp’s regular reliance on alcohol and drugs made their situation at home hellish. Heard, unfortunately, did not react to that difficult set of circumstances in the way the world expects (or wants) to see from a woman experiencing abuse. She didn’t cower. Instead, she lost her temper, she mocked him, and (as she admitted in one infamous recording) she hit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard’s biggest crime of all, probably, was repeatedly lying about donating her $7 million divorce settlement. (She donated $1.3 million, but not all of that came directly from her.) Because of that lie, an assumption took hold that Depp couldn’t possibly have assaulted Heard in the ways she described. (And make no mistake, her testimony about those alleged assaults has often been \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amber-heard-johnny-depp-bottle-scars-b2080069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing\u003c/a>.) Apparently, in the court of public opinion, if you lie about one thing, you must be lying about everything—even credible abuse claims backed by a mountain of \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/ex-amber-heard-bff-says-she-saw-abuse-inflicted-by-depp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-violent-texts-paul-bettany-amber-heard-trial-1699979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s begging for total global humiliation,” Depp wrote about Heard in one furious 2016 text. “She’s gonna get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97650']It took him six years, but there can be no doubt that Depp, with the help of his fans and his privilege, has now thoroughly succeeded in that revenge mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Depp back to swanning around the world, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/05/johnny-depp-jeff-beck-performance-england-1235035309/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing guitar for supportive rock stars\u003c/a>, it’s important to look beyond the two flawed characters at the center of this awful case. Because the most damage sustained in all of this isn’t to Heard or to Depp—it was to the survivors of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence who’ve been watching in horror for the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That damage has been inflicted on multiple fronts throughout this trial, and relentlessly so. It was inflicted inside the courtroom, when we saw Heard’s dating history and friendships with men picked apart, as if those relationships were grounds to doubt the likelihood she’d been assaulted. (It felt reminiscent of the recent past when rape survivors were still routinely asked about their sexual histories.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and outside the courtroom, Heard was subjected to mockery, abuse and hatred by people whose support for her more famous husband was persistently aggressive. She was talked about as if she were the one pursuing him in court, not the other way around. And fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8R3EXXlKxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrities have piled on\u003c/a> too. When Chris Rock said “\u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/chris-rock-depp-heard-trial-believe-women-amber-1235268125/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Believe all women except Amber Heard\u003c/a>” a couple weeks ago, far too many people laughed along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903795/britney-spears-conservatorship-documentaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902631/women-reclaim-the-narrative-of-the-clinton-sex-scandal-in-impeachment-american-crime-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Impeachment: American Crime Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908915/pam-tommy-are-sympathetic-figures-in-an-infamous-culture-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pam & Tommy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> all suggested America no longer eviscerated famous women in public for cheap laughs, the response to this trial has unequivocally proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worst of all, the decision against Heard will serve to silence abuse survivors. Because—and it’s important to remind ourselves of this—Amber Heard did not name Johnny Depp in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article that prompted Depp’s lawsuit. Dots could be connected because of the couple’s high-profile marriage, and the 2016 restraining order she filed against him for abusing her while under the influence. But she did not name him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will this knowledge prevent other survivors from speaking publicly or writing about their abuse, it puts in particular jeopardy any and all famous activists who’ve led their relationships in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910124']Consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rachel Wood\u003c/a>, who campaigned successfully to extend the statute of limitations for domestic violence in California. Part of what made her such a compelling witness was the harrowing testimony she gave about the intimate partner violence she suffered at the hands of an anonymous former boyfriend. (The world now knows him to be Marilyn Manson—a figure that came up in the Depp v. Heard trial due to his close friendship with Depp.) Would Wood give that testimony now, before cameras and on the record, knowing the verdict that just landed on Heard? If people can’t speak out about their experiences with abuse while granting their abusers anonymity, when can they speak at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything about this trial has been a keen reminder of the Bad Old Days. The days when a woman had to be a stoic and saintly image of victimhood in order to be believed. The days when a man’s appalling private behavior could be ignored by the masses because he was a beloved public figure. The days when it was acceptable to demonize and bully a woman because she said things about a famous man that the world would rather not hear. The days when bystanders pointing any of these things out online would earn them a swift and proverbial beatdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1241024671-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard supporter Daniel Lee, 26, is flipped off by a Johnny Depp supporter outside court during the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard civil trial at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole trial has been a depressing and demoralizing mess. It is a confirmation that we still live in a place where, when it comes to a complicated he-said-she-said, the winner will always be the one with the most power, the most fans, the most money to buy the best lawyers, and the biggest reserves of good old fashioned misogyny to deploy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard and Johnny Depp both lost today. But it’s America that’s losing the most.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The verdict is in, and it’s strangely fitting: Everybody lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, a jury came to the conclusion that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had defamed each other after a livestreamed trial that was as long as it was disturbing. In the end, the jury awarded Depp $10.35 million of the $50 million he sought from his ex-wife over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> op-ed\u003c/a> in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” They awarded Heard $2 million of the $100 million she sought when she counter-sued him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the difference in amounts, the person who lost the most in this trial is Amber Heard. Heard, whose life has been on hold for the last four years while her ex-husband doggedly pursued her and dragged her through courts on both sides of the Atlantic. Heard, who has been painted online as a conniving villain despite a British High Court judge concluding in 2020 that she “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was the victim of sustained and multiple assaults by Mr. Depp\u003c/a>.” Heard, who survived an obviously excruciating marriage, only to become the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1104925752/amber-heard-says-social-media-was-a-factor-for-her-defamation-trial-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excruciating public ridicule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/GettyImages-1240858246-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, May 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s clear that Depp’s regular reliance on alcohol and drugs made their situation at home hellish. Heard, unfortunately, did not react to that difficult set of circumstances in the way the world expects (or wants) to see from a woman experiencing abuse. She didn’t cower. Instead, she lost her temper, she mocked him, and (as she admitted in one infamous recording) she hit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Heard’s biggest crime of all, probably, was repeatedly lying about donating her $7 million divorce settlement. (She donated $1.3 million, but not all of that came directly from her.) Because of that lie, an assumption took hold that Depp couldn’t possibly have assaulted Heard in the ways she described. (And make no mistake, her testimony about those alleged assaults has often been \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amber-heard-johnny-depp-bottle-scars-b2080069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing\u003c/a>.) Apparently, in the court of public opinion, if you lie about one thing, you must be lying about everything—even credible abuse claims backed by a mountain of \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/ex-amber-heard-bff-says-she-saw-abuse-inflicted-by-depp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-violent-texts-paul-bettany-amber-heard-trial-1699979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It took him six years, but there can be no doubt that Depp, with the help of his fans and his privilege, has now thoroughly succeeded in that revenge mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Depp back to swanning around the world, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/05/johnny-depp-jeff-beck-performance-england-1235035309/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing guitar for supportive rock stars\u003c/a>, it’s important to look beyond the two flawed characters at the center of this awful case. Because the most damage sustained in all of this isn’t to Heard or to Depp—it was to the survivors of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence who’ve been watching in horror for the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That damage has been inflicted on multiple fronts throughout this trial, and relentlessly so. It was inflicted inside the courtroom, when we saw Heard’s dating history and friendships with men picked apart, as if those relationships were grounds to doubt the likelihood she’d been assaulted. (It felt reminiscent of the recent past when rape survivors were still routinely asked about their sexual histories.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and outside the courtroom, Heard was subjected to mockery, abuse and hatred by people whose support for her more famous husband was persistently aggressive. She was talked about as if she were the one pursuing him in court, not the other way around. And fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8R3EXXlKxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrities have piled on\u003c/a> too. When Chris Rock said “\u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/chris-rock-depp-heard-trial-believe-women-amber-1235268125/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Believe all women except Amber Heard\u003c/a>” a couple weeks ago, far too many people laughed along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903795/britney-spears-conservatorship-documentaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902631/women-reclaim-the-narrative-of-the-clinton-sex-scandal-in-impeachment-american-crime-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Impeachment: American Crime Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908915/pam-tommy-are-sympathetic-figures-in-an-infamous-culture-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pam & Tommy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> all suggested America no longer eviscerated famous women in public for cheap laughs, the response to this trial has unequivocally proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worst of all, the decision against Heard will serve to silence abuse survivors. Because—and it’s important to remind ourselves of this—Amber Heard did not name Johnny Depp in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> article that prompted Depp’s lawsuit. Dots could be connected because of the couple’s high-profile marriage, and the 2016 restraining order she filed against him for abusing her while under the influence. But she did not name him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will this knowledge prevent other survivors from speaking publicly or writing about their abuse, it puts in particular jeopardy any and all famous activists who’ve led their relationships in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Depp is suing Heard for more than $50 million, saying her claims of domestic abuse have harmed his career and reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heard, 35, has filed a countersuit against Depp, 58, seeking $100 million in damages and saying his legal team falsely accused her of fabricating claims against Depp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_106415']The jury trial at a county courthouse in Fairfax, Va., just outside of Washington, D.C., has generated intense interest, prompting Circuit Court Judge Penney Azcarate to issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/circuit/sites/circuit/files/assets/documents/pdf/high-profile/depp%20v%20heard/cl-2019-2911-order-3-29-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed orders\u003c/a> for journalists and spectators — including a ban on camping out on the grounds of the judicial complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the formerly married movie stars, the case could potentially draw appearances from actors Paul Bettany and James Franco, as well as Tesla CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Depp is asking for\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depp is suing Heard for three counts of defamation, citing her op-ed that was published on \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> website and in its print newspaper, as well as Heard’s posting a link to the piece via her Twitter account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depp is seeking at least $50 million in compensatory damages and a punitive award of at least $350,000, along with attorneys’ fees and court costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, witnesses have testified about alcohol and drug use by Depp and Heard, and they’ve been questioned about the fights between the former couple. Depp’s sister, Christi Dembrowski, and a longtime friend, Isaac Baruch, were among the first to testify on Depp’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a video deposition played in court, couple’s therapist Laurel Anderson, who worked with Heard and Depp before their relationship ended, described the pair as inflicting “mutual abuse” on each another, according to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-amber-heard-johnny-depp-lawsuits-arts-and-fe315bb74c8d89303545e366aabff89f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Virginia case centers on Heard’s 2018 essay about abuse\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In December 2018, Heard wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an op-ed in \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> voicing her support for the Violence Against Women Act. In it, she drew on her own experiences as a survivor of sexual assault and domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many women, I had been harassed and sexually assaulted by the time I was of college age,” Heard wrote. “But I kept quiet—I did not expect filing complaints to bring justice. And I didn’t see myself as a victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_12709317']The essay didn’t directly refer to Depp by name, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DeppHeard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his 2019 court complaint\u003c/a> states, “the op-ed plainly was about Ms. Heard’s purported victimization after she publicly accused her former husband, Johnny Depp, of domestic abuse in 2016, when she appeared in court with an apparently battered face and obtained a temporary restraining order against Mr. Depp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heard and Depp married in February 2015. Heard filed for divorce in May 2016 and days later obtained a temporary restraining order accusing Depp of hitting her during a fight in their Los Angeles apartment. Depp denied he abused her, and police said they found no evidence of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the two settled their divorce in 2017, the agreement reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38621519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">included a stipulation\u003c/a> in which they agreed not to discuss their relationship in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Depp claims Heard’s allegations were a ‘hoax’ to boost her career\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depp’s filing against Heard accuses her of using domestic abuse allegations to boost her career and public standing. 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The judge said he didn’t believe she was to blame for the injury, and that it was “a sign of the depth of [Depp’s] rage that he admitted scrawling graffiti in blood from his injured finger and then, when that was insufficient, dipping his badly injured finger in paint and continuing to write messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In related matters, the judge also pointed to a text Depp had written about Heard as evidence of Depp’s anger and resentment towards her. “She’s begging for total global humiliation. She’s gonna get it,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/media/johnny-depp-libel-ruling-scli-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 text\u003c/a> read. “I have no mercy, no fear and not an ounce of emotion or what I once thought was love for this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market.”[aside postid='arts_13865685']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichol also disagreed entirely with the idea (painted in recent years by both Depp and his supporters) that Heard had accused Depp of abuse for financial gain. “A recurring theme in Mr. Depp’s evidence was that Ms. Heard had … done this as an ‘insurance policy,'” the judge noted. He then pointed to Heard’s decision to donate her $7 million divorce settlement to charity as, “hardly the act one would expect of a gold-digger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depp’s U.K. libel trial, then, has achieved nothing positive for him. In addition to publicizing the sordid details of the breakdown of his marriage, his loss in court has also resulted in the actor being forced to resign from J.K. Rowling’s \u003cem>Fantastic Beasts\u003c/em> franchise. (Shockingly, Depp will \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/behind-warner-bros-decision-to-sever-ties-with-johnny-depp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still receive his full salary\u003c/a> for the project, despite only filming one scene for the third installment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end,\u003cem> The Sun\u003c/em> may have won the British legal victory, but Amber Heard clearly won the moral one. That Depp wants to repeat this exercise on home soil isn’t just mind-boggling, it’s woefully ill-advised.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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