Amber Heard settles defamation case with Johnny Depp



Heard had antecedently been ordered to wage other than $10m successful damages to Depp, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic helium was ordered to wage her $2m

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp successful courtroom successful Fairfax, Virginia, successful May. Photograph: Steve Helber/APAmber Heard and Johnny Depp successful tribunal successful Fairfax, Virginia, successful May. Photograph: Steve Helber/APErum SalamMon 19 Dec 2022 12.17 ESTLast changed connected Mon 19 Dec 2022 20.Eleven EST

Amber Heard has agreed to a felony statement on with her ex-husband and chap histrion Johnny Depp, who sued her for defamation aft she suggested helium abused her successful a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

Heard, 36, had antecedently been ordered wage greater than $10m successful damages to Depp, 50 six. Depp, successful the meantime, was ordered to wage Heard $2m aft she filed a countersuit accusing him of defamation aft his attorney, Adam Waldman, called her maltreatment claims a “hoax”.

Heard archetypal of each appealed the ruling ordering her to wage but has for the crushed that dropped that effort. The presumption of the colony she introduced connected Monday puts an springiness up to immoderate likewise litigation among Heard and Depp implicit their claims against each antithetic for now, but the presumption of the statement person been present not without hold publicized.

In an Instagram station that she shared connected Monday morning, Heard wrote that agreeing to the colony changed into “a precise pugnacious choice”.

“It’s captious for maine to notation that I by nary means selected this,” the taxable examine. “I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it became destroyed. The vilification I really person confronted connected societal media is an amplified exemplary of the ways successful which girls are re-victimized erstwhile they get forward.

“Now I yet person an anticipation to emancipate myself from thing I tried to spell distant implicit six years successful the past and connected phrases I tin conform to. I adjacent person made nary admission. This isn't an enactment of concession. There are nary regulations oregon gags with respect to my dependable transferring ahead.”

News of the statement comes aft a public, months-long situation conflict noticed Heard and Depp combat for assistance wrong the courtroom of nationalist sentiment arsenic good arsenic litigate their favoritism successful an existent tribunal docket successful Fairfax county, Virginia. On societal media, usher for Depp changed into overwhelming, arsenic evidenced by mode of the extended sharing of videos and posts aiming to impugn – if not outright discredit – Heard’s accounts of location unit astatine the arms of Depp.

Separately, wrong the UK, Depp mislaid a libel lawsuit successful 2020 towards the Sun aft helium sued the paper for publishing an editorial calling him a “spouse beater”.

The justice if truthful discovered the point was “appreciably real”, and immoderate observers thought that preliminary triumph for Heard would perchance bring implicit into the lawsuit she and Depp waged each antithetic wrong the US. But the chopped up ruling that observed the proceedings of the lawsuit successful Virginia was drastically much burdensome economically for Heard.

Depp and Heard had been joined for 2 years from 2015 to 2017.