Largest superstar lawsuits that shocked the world in 2022

The yr 2022 had been a rollercoaster trip for a lot of A-list celebrities as they made headlines after touchdown in authorized hassle.

Whereas some celebrities await trial, others remained in information all year long with their authorized thrillers in courtrooms that hooked the viewers worldwide.

From Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s explosive libel case to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s authorized struggle over Chateau Miraval, the drama was aplenty.

Check out a few of the largest superstar lawsuits of the yr 2022:

Johnny Depp, Amber Heard Defamation Trial

The Hollywood exes confronted one another once more on the trial held in Fairfax County, Virginia, from April to June after Depp sued Heard for $50 million over her 2018 op-ed revealed in The Washington Put up.

Depp alleged that the Aquaman actor defamed him when she referred to herself as a home abuse sufferer with out mentioning the identify of the Pirates of the Caribbean star in her article.

Heard countersued Depp for $100 million after Depp’s former lawyer Adam Waldman referred to as her allegations a “hoax” in 2020 to the Every day Mail.

After a six-week-long bombshell trial, the jury dominated the decision in Depp’s favour as he received all three defamation claims in his case introduced towards his ex-wife.

Depp was awarded $10.35 million in damages whereas Heard received solely one in all her three claims that her ex-husband defamed her and was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.

Nonetheless, the authorized thrill didn’t finish there as Depp and Heard each filed an attraction towards one another’s win.

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Chateau Miraval Lawsuit

Brad Pitt filed a lawsuit earlier this yr towards ex-wife Angelina Jolie over their as soon as collectively owned winery within the south of France, Chateau Miraval.

The previous flames had purchased a controlling stake within the stated winery in 2008 and determined that they’d not promote their stakes with out consulting one another.

Nonetheless, the Maleficent star offered her pursuits within the Château Miraval, following her messy divorce from Pitt in 2016, to Russian liquor large Stoli enraging the Bullet Practice actor.

In his swimsuit, Pitt claimed that Jolie didn’t ask him earlier than promoting her shares to Tenute del Mondo, owned by businessman Yuri Shefler referred to in courtroom paperwork as “an aggressive third-party competitor.”

Jolie filed a $250 million cross-complaint by way of her former firm, alleging that Pitt wished to take over the corporate as payback for his or her divorce and their child-custody battle.

The authorized drama between the exes went from nasty to nuclear after Jolie herself filed a cross-complaint towards Pitt claiming that the actor bodily abused her and her youngsters throughout their 2016 airplane struggle.

Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Wrongful Dying Swimsuit

After the horrific taking pictures incident on the units of Rust in 2021 that resulted within the dying of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, her household filed a wrongful dying swimsuit towards Alec Baldwin earlier this yr.

In October 2022, CNN reported that the It is Sophisticated actor has reached an undisclosed settlement, in line with which, the husband of Hutchins shall be an govt producer on the movie.

Within the newest growth, Baldwin sued the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, and three different crew members who labored on the set of the unlucky film citing their negligence in offering him with a gun that discharged.

Shakira 14.5-million-euro Spanish tax fraud case

Shakira landed in hassle after her cut up from Gerard Pique when she was referred to as out by Spanish state prosecutors to serve eight years in jail over alleged £12 million tax fraud.

The Waka Waka singer is accused of not paying 14.5 million euros ($14.7 million) in tax earnings between 2012 and 2014, a interval wherein Shakira’s representatives say she didn’t stay in Spain.

Shakira even rejected a settlement supplied by the prosecutor as she claims that she moved to Barcelona in 2015. The Columbian singer is now awaiting her trial.

Ed Sheeran ‘Form of You’ Copyright Case

Famed singer Ed Sheeran secured victory in his copyright case over his 2017 hit monitor Form of You after grime artiste Sam Chokri and producer Ross O’Donoghue accused him of plagiarism.

Chokri, who performs below the identify Sami Swap, claimed the Oh I hook in Sheeran’s monitor was “strikingly comparable” to an Oh why chorus in his personal monitor.

After an eleven-day trial, Choose dominated that Sheeran had “neither intentionally nor subconsciously copied” Chokri’s music.

Travis Scott’s Astroworld tragedy

The Astroworld tragedy continues to hang-out Travis Scott after one other sufferer Shanazia Williamson filed a lawsuit towards the rapper in Could 2022.

The Ohio native alleged that her “unborn baby” died after she was “crushed” in the course of the notorious crowd surge at Scott’s live performance when at the very least 9 individuals died together with 300 injured.

The Kardashians vs Blac Chyna

The Kardashian/Jenner household held their heads excessive as they exited the courtroom as winners within the bombshell lawsuit Rob Kardashian’s ex-girlfriend Blac Chyna filed towards them.

In her $100 million lawsuit, the mannequin claimed that Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner meddled to finish her actuality present, Rob & Chyna.

5 years after suing the household, Chyna was not awarded any damages because the decide dominated that the Kardashian/Jenner clan was accountable for any financial damages to the mannequin.