Unless you’re living under the rocks, you must’ve heard about the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial. The high profile US$50 million (S$68.8 million) defamation case involved Johnny Depp, best known as Captain Jack Sparrow in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean and his ex-wife Amber Heard, well-known as Mera in the Aquaman series. Source: Yahoo News Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for defaming him when she called herself a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in a The Washington Post opinion piece. Amber Heard then countersued him for US$100 million, saying that Depp smeared her when his lawyer called her accusations a “hoax”. After a six-week trial, Depp won the trials and was awarded a total of US$15 million (S$20.6 million) in compensatory and punitive damages. Amber Heard was awarded US$2 million (S$2.8 million) in compensatory damages too. Aside from the juiciness of the trial, I also noticed that the damages… were in the millions....