Unsealed court documents show that amber heard rthrew out divorce payment Johnny Depp which could have amounted to tens of millions of dollars, as the financially strapped actress sold her California.
Documents seen by the Daily Beast show that the star of “Aquaman”36, ignored his legal team’s guidance to go after Depp for the maximum cash he was entitled to after he They filed for divorce in 2016.
She could have searched for half the $33 million earned by Depp filming the fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, as it was done while they were married.
But Heard decided against it and wrote them an email saying she was being “surprisingly true to (his) word, that it’s not about money.”
A judge refused to allow that evidence to be admitted during Depp’s libel suit against Heard. He was ordered to pay Depp a total of $8.3 million. after being found guilty of defamation, but says she doesn’t have enough money to do it.
There may now be started raising some of that cash by selling his home in Yucca Valley in the California desert for $1.05 million, a profit of about $500,000 for Heard, according to TMZ.
after the trial
In June, the “Aquaman” star was ordered pay her ex-husband $10.35 million at the end of an explosive six-week trial, when a jury ruled that she had defamed her ex-husband in a newspaper op-ed in 2018.
Depp, 59, would receive $15 million, including $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. However, the judge later limited the damages to the state maximum of $350,000, leaving Depp with a total benefit of $350,000. 8.35 million dollars.
In the meantime, Heard won one of her three claims counterclaims related to statements made by Depp’s lawyer suggesting that she and her friends trashed her apartment before calling the police.
Heard received 2 million dollars in compensatory damages of the 100 million he requested. Amid news of Heard’s appeals, Depp’s representatives told DailyMail.com last week that trust the verdict.
“The jury heard extensive evidence presented during the trial and reached a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in multiple instances. We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand,” a Depp spokesman said.
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