Wristbands from Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Trial Are Selling Online | PEOPLE.com

2022-06-04 03:29:57 By : Ms. Clarissa zhao

Spectators who attended the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard defamation trial are now selling their wristbands from the Fairfax County, Virginia, courtroom.

A blue wristband — which had a starting bid of $4,999 on eBay — is from "the first day of the final week of the trial" (May 23), according to the seller, who added: "I was there and you are obtaining this from a verified first person source."

The product description continued, "This is a piece of celebrity culture history. The wristbands are not fancy or specially made, they are your typical paper wristbands you see at events. The Sheriffs marked these for their own purposes to identify who was allowed in the courtroom."

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The bidding has ended on the blue band, but a red wristband is going for a similar price ($4,500 or best offer).

An orange wristband from the courtroom is also for sale on eBay. The price tag is currently $500.

The seller said the item is "priceless," adding, "the trial is a part of pop culture history."

On Wednesday, the jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages (due to Virginia limits on punitive damages, the judge reduced the total to $10.35 million), determining that Heard defamed him in her December 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post.

Heard, 36, was awarded $2 million in damages after Depp was found to have defamed her on one of three claims.

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Fans from around the country — and globe — flocked to the controversial six-week trial, waiting in long lines for a chance to get inside the courtroom and cheering from the outside. During her testimony, Heard even addressed being "bombarded" with "vitriol" online and while entering the courthouse.

"I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day. Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life, things that I've lived through, used to humiliate me. People want to kill me, and they tell me so every day," she said on the witness stand last week.

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Joanne Garcia of Fairfax was inside the courtroom when the verdict was read earlier this week. She said the result of the trial means a fresh start for Depp, 58.

"My heart was just frozen," she told PEOPLE. "But when the word came out that he won, I was just so glad. I want him to be happy, to forget all of this. He can even take off the tattoos, start fresh and not think about anything in his past."

Depp, himself, said in a statement after the trial that he felt like he was given his "life back" and the "best is yet to come and a new chapter has finally begun."

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In a statement after the verdict, Heard said she was "disappointed with what this verdict means for other women," calling it a "setback." She added, "It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously."

Heard said she was "heartbroken" that "the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband." The actress said Depp's legal team "succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the U.K."