8 h, mar 27, 2022 y - THE GUARDIAN AH v JD: defamation claims embroil actor & her ex in court battle

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“There are a lot of issues that have to be unpacked in any defamation case,” said Mariann Wang, who represented former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos in her defamation case against Donald Trump. “Fundamentally, if the speaker can prove that what she said or wrote was true, that will bar his claim.”

Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, provided a similar explanation.

“A plaintiff in a defamation case has to prove that a false statement is published about that person and that it causes harm to their reputation,” Gutterman said.

“Looking at this from the outside, I think the biggest issue is really the truth or falsity of the allegations – whether Johnny Depp committed domestic violence against his wife or then-girlfriend and, on the converse, whether Amber Heard made stuff up about this.”

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