Pop star Ali Zafar shared his two cents on the latest development of the famous Hollywood’s Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s defamation case. The American actress announced that she will make a settlement of $1 million in a defamation case as she has lost faith in the American legal system and to spare herself from further trials.
After her announcement went viral, Ali Zafar opined on what he saw as irony, that after creating a massive ruckus and ruining her ex-husband’s career and image, she has opted for a ‘settlement’.
Allegedly,try & destroy someone’s life, cause him irreparable financial/emotional damage,ruin his career by hijacking the cause of real victims, mislead other women & the press into supporting you, create a massive ruckus and then “SETTLE”? Good enough ? #AmberHeard #JohnnyDepp https://t.co/bGAbFkxiMn
— Ali Zafar (@AliZafarsays) December 20, 2022
It is pertinent to mention that in 2018, Ali Zafar was also accused of sexual harassment, which he later denied and said that he would take the matter to court.
He then filed a Rs. 1 billion defamation case against Meesha Shafi for slander under the Defamation Ordinance 2002, claiming that she had caused “tremendous injury” to his “reputation, goodwill, and livelihood” through “false, slanderous and defamatory” allegations.
Their matter is still ongoing in court with no further updates as Meesha Shafi fails to appear in front of the court.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s Case
Johnny Depp had originally filed a $50 million defamation claim against Heard in March 2019 after she published an article in the Washington Post, in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”.
In June after a six-week trial, a Virginia jury ruled in Johnny Depp’s favor on three separate claims of defamation, awarding him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The latter sum was knocked down to $350,000.
Johnny Depp was ordered to pay his ex-wife $2 million for accusing her of enacting a “hoax.”
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