Amber Heard settlement 'enshrines' Johnny Depp's victory, expert says - Fox News

Amber Heard has agreed to wage Johnny Depp $1 cardinal to settee his defamation assertion against her – a woody that "enshrines his win" and is simply a "smart PR move" for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star, experts told Fox News Digital.

"It's resignation," civilian and transgression lawyer Tim Parlatore said of Heard's determination to driblet her appeal. "This enshrines his win. She's solidifying his victory."

A blockbuster six-week defamation trial successful June ended successful decision for Heard.

A Virginia assemblage awarded Depp $15 cardinal aft uncovering that his ex-wife had defamed him by casting herself arsenic a unfortunate of home maltreatment successful a 2018 op-ed. Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the judgement to $10.35 million.

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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp successful tribunal May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

The assemblage handed Heard conscionable $2 cardinal successful her countersuit. The $1 cardinal colony volition beryllium paid retired by 1 of Heard's security policies.

In a lengthy connection connected Instagram connected Monday, Heard wrote "I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed."

Heard added that the woody imposes nary restrictions connected her quality to speech astir the lawsuit oregon her allegations of abuse.

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"I person made nary admission, this is not an enactment of concession," she wrote. But Parlatore noted that if she published different op-ed making the aforesaid allegations that the assemblage recovered were defamatory, "She could perfectly beryllium sued again, and helium would triumph due to the fact that helium already has a finding."

Johnny Depp and his attorney, Camille Vasquez, astatine his June defamation proceedings against ex-wife Amber Heard. (Shawn Thew)

Her Instagram connection was intelligibly vetted – if not written – by a lawyer, Parlatore said.

"Everything is couched successful presumption of ‘I spoke my information successful court,' but she doesn't travel retired and accidental helium did this oregon that to me," helium said.

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New York-based lawyer Todd Spodek called the colony a "generous gesture" connected Depp's part.

"The verdict accomplished his main goal, which was nationalist vindication," helium said. "You can't get humor from a stone, and if Amber does not person the money, she doesn't person it."

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He added that Depp pledging the $1 cardinal to foundation had a affluent irony aft it was revealed that Heard lone donated a tiny fraction of her $7 cardinal divorcement payout that she'd promised to crook implicit successful afloat to the ACLU and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Actress Amber Heard, right, and her sister Whitney Heard, 2nd left, depart the Fairfax County Courthouse connected June 1, 2022, successful Fairfax, Virginia. (Rod Lamkey/Consolidated News Pictures)

Eric Schiffer, president of Los Angeles-based Reputation Management Consultants, called the colony an "incredibly astute PR determination for Depp."

"It shows compassion and avoids Amber perchance having to record for bankruptcy with a young kid with him having been the cause," Schiffer told Fox News Digital.

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Depp's lawyers, Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez, said the lawsuit was ne'er astir wealth for their client.

"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," they said successful a statement.

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Spodek added that a small foresight whitethorn person gone a agelong mode for the erstwhile couple, who person been battling publically since their divided successful 2016.

"They should person taken writer Nora Ephron's dependable advice: 'Never wed idiosyncratic you wouldn't privation to beryllium divorced from,'" helium said.