Camille Vasquez, who gained notoriety as considered one of Johnny Depp’s attorneys in his defamation case towards ex-wife Amber Heard, has joined NBC Information as a authorized analyst.
Vasquez made her first look within the function on At the moment on Monday to supply evaluation on Bryan Kohberger’s arrest on costs of stabbing 4 College of Idaho college students.
Vasquez and Benjamin Chew of Brown Rudnick have been lead attorneys for Depp, in a case that drew nationwide consideration, partially as a result of the each day proceedings over the spring and summer season have been televised.
Vasquez is companion in her agency’s litigation & arbitration follow group and co-chair of the model & repute administration group.
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Final month, the edges within the case introduced a settlement. Deadline reported that Heard would pay $1 million to Depp, and he deliberate to donate the sum to charities.
Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages by jury within the case, though the punitive damages have been decreased to $350,000. The jurors additionally awarded Heard $2 million in her counterclaim.
In a press release saying the settlement, Heard mentioned that she had “exhausted virtually all of my sources” within the litigation.
“I make this resolution having misplaced religion within the American authorized system, the place my unprotected testimony served as leisure and social media fodder,” she wrote on Instagram.
