Johnny Depp’s Legal Team Issues A Statement As Amber Heard Settles
It's finally over. . .
The Pirates Of The Caribbean actor Johnny Depp filed a defamation case against his ex-wife for tainting his image by calling him an abuser in an op-ed that she wrote for The Washington Post in 2018. The legal chaos that this case resulted in was very massive as well. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had been sparring publicly because of this case for a while now and it has turned into one of the most controversial trials of the year. This has also spawned movies, documentaries and TV series as well as countless jokes and memes in its wake.
The extensively televised trial of this case wrapped up earlier this year and the court declared Amber Heard guilty of defaming her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. The Aquaman actress was ordered to pay more than $10 million in damages to Johnny Depp and he was ordered to pay her $2 million in exchange.
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She was prepared to appeal this verdict with a new legal as well as public relations team on her side. But shockingly, she has stopped making efforts and has chosen to stop the process and settle instead. She made a statement about the same in an Instagram post where she claimed that the decision was very hard for her and that it took her a while to deliberate on the matter.
#AmberHeard announces she has settled the defamation case with her ex-husband, #JohnnyDepp. Her statement below @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/G4slZg18Yz
— Angenette Levy (@Angenette5) December 19, 2022
Following Amber Heard’s official statement, Johnny Depp’s legal team i.e. Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez released an official statement on his behalf too.
Statement from Johnny Depp’s lawyers @LawCrimeNetwork 👇 pic.twitter.com/7iGNMBsCaE
— Angenette Levy (@Angenette5) December 19, 2022
Johnny Depp’s attorneys have declared that Amber Heard will be paying Johnny Depp $1 million to settle and bury the legal matter once and for all. He has also pledged to use this amount to donate to charities. It is a massive reduction from the initial $10 million that she was supposed to pay but Johnny Depp has decided to accept it and formally close the chapter on this defamation and for all.
UPDATE: A source familiar with the settlement tells me Heard has agreed to pay Depp $1 million. That's a fraction of the $10.35 million she would have to have paid had she lost the appeal @LawCrimeNetwork
— Angenette Levy (@Angenette5) December 19, 2022
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There are others terms that Amber Heard has agreed to but they haven’t been publicly released, yet. But, I genuinely feel like this might be for the best, for both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. It will give them the chance to close this chapter, heal and move on from the shadows of the past, towards a peaceful and better future.
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