Amber Heard settles defamation case with Johnny Depp - The Guardian

Amber Heard has agreed to a ineligible colony 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 much than $10m successful damages to Depp, 56. Depp, meanwhile, was ordered to wage Heard $2m aft she filed a countersuit accusing him of defamation aft his lawyer, Adam Waldman, called her maltreatment claims a “hoax”.

Heard initially appealed the ruling ordering her to wage but has since dropped that effort. The presumption of the colony she announced connected Monday puts an extremity to immoderate further litigation betwixt Heard and Depp implicit their claims against each different for now, but the presumption of the statement were not instantly publicized.

In an Instagram station that she shared connected Monday morning, Heard wrote that agreeing to the colony was “a precise hard decision”.

“It’s important for maine to accidental that I ne'er chose this,” the station read. “I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I person faced connected societal media is an amplified mentation of the ways successful which women are re-victimized erstwhile they travel forward.

“Now I yet person an accidental to emancipate myself from thing I attempted to permission implicit six years agone and connected presumption I tin hold to. I person made nary admission. This is not an enactment of concession. There are nary restrictions oregon gags with respect to my dependable moving forward.”

News of the colony comes aft a public, months-long ineligible conflict saw Heard and Depp combat for enactment successful the tribunal of nationalist sentiment arsenic good arsenic litigate their quality successful an existent courtroom successful Fairfax county, Virginia. On societal media, enactment for Depp was overwhelming, arsenic evidenced by the wide sharing of videos and posts aiming to impugn – if not outright discredit – Heard’s accounts of home unit astatine the hands of Depp.

Separately, successful the UK, Depp mislaid a libel lawsuit successful 2020 against the Sun aft helium sued the paper for publishing an nonfiction calling him a “wife beater”.

The justice successful that lawsuit recovered the nonfiction was “substantially true”, and immoderate observers thought that archetypal triumph for Heard mightiness transportation implicit into the lawsuit she and Depp waged each different successful the US. But the divided ruling that followed the proceedings of the lawsuit successful Virginia was substantially much burdensome economically for Heard.

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