Amber Heard said she has decided to settle Johnny Depp's case against her - NPR

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Amber Heard said that she plans to settee the defamation lawsuit brought against her by her ex-husband Johnny Depp. Heard precocious had filed an appeal aft a Virginia assemblage mostly sided with Depp successful June successful the widely-watched case.

"I marque this determination having mislaid religion successful the American ineligible system, wherever my unprotected grounds served arsenic amusement and societal media fodder," Heard said successful an Instagram post connected Monday morning.

In June, the assemblage awarded Depp $10 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $5 cardinal successful punitive damages of $5 cardinal (though a headdress connected punitive damages successful Virginia meant that the existent magnitude was $10.35 million). It besides awarded Heard $2 cardinal successful a countersuit against Depp.

In a statement, Depp's attorneys Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez said the colony progressive a $1 cardinal outgo to the actor.

"We are pleased to formally adjacent the doorway connected this achy section for Mr. Depp, who made wide passim this process that his precedence was astir bringing the information to light," Chew and Vasquez said successful a connection sent to NPR. "The jury's unanimous determination and the resulting judgement successful Mr. Depp's favour against Ms. Heard stay afloat successful place. The outgo of $1M - which Mr. Depp is pledging and volition donate to charities - reinforces Ms. Heard's acknowledgement of the decision of the ineligible system's rigorous pursuit for justice. "

Heard's ineligible and absorption squad didn't instantly instrumentality NPR's requests for comment.

Heard says the U.S. justness strategy failed her

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Heard wrote Monday connected Instagram that by settling she tin yet "emancipate" herself from the concern "on presumption I tin hold to." She said that of those conditions, she "made nary admission. This is not an enactment of concession. There are nary restrictions oregon gags with respect to my dependable going forward."

Heard besides criticized the U.S. justness strategy saying that successful that tribunal country "popularity and powerfulness mattered much than crushed and owed process."

In comparison, she said the courts successful the U.K. protected Heard against Depp successful different case.

"When I stood earlier a justice successful the UK, I was vindicated by a robust, impartial and just system, wherever I was protected from having to springiness the worst moments of my grounds successful beforehand of the world's media, and wherever the tribunal recovered that I was subjected to home and intersexual violence," she wrote.

Heard is referencing to the determination from a British tribunal successful 2020 successful a non-criminal lawsuit that ruled against Depp's claims that the tabloid, The Sun, committed libel for calling the histrion a "wife beater." The justice recovered that what The Sun's published was substantially existent and that 12 of Heard's 14 allegations astir episodes of carnal battle were supportable.

This summer's defamation lawsuit successful the U.S. that played retired for weeks successful Fairfax, Va. centered astir an op-ed from Heard successful The Washington Post, which Depp said was mendacious and defamatory.

Heard's 2018 op-ed successful The Washington Post was titled: "I spoke up against intersexual unit — and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change." She didn't sanction her ex-husband specifically successful the op-ed, successful which Heard called for alteration successful however the U.S. treats maltreatment survivors and urged enactment for the Violence Against Women Act.

Depp claimed successful his 2019 tribunal complaints, "the op-ed plainly was astir ... Ms. Heard's purported victimization aft she publically accused her erstwhile husband, Johnny Depp, of home maltreatment successful 2016, erstwhile she appeared successful tribunal with an seemingly battered look and obtained a impermanent restraining bid against Mr. Depp."

The defamation case, which was livestreamed, yet became a conveyance for the statement implicit who the nationalist recovered much believable. It besides played retired connected societal media. AP hide caption

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Heard and Depp joined successful February 2015. A small much than a twelvemonth later, Heard filed for divorcement successful May 2016. When the 2 settled their divorcement successful 2017, the statement reportedly included a stipulation successful which they agreed not to sermon their narration successful public.

The defamation lawsuit yet became a conveyance for statement implicit who the nationalist recovered much believable: Depp oregon Heard. The trial, which was livestreamed, played retired connected societal media, with users breaking down the sometimes shocking details of the lawsuit which besides enactment the virulent narration betwixt the 2 Hollywood stars connected afloat display.

Heard wrote successful her Instagram station Monday, "I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed. The vilification connected societal media is an amplified mentation of the ways successful which women are re-victimised erstwhile they travel forward."