Amber Heard’s $1 million payment to Johnny Depp has been forwarded to various charities. TMZ reported that the actor dropped the defamation lawsuit settlement.
Amber Heard’s $1 million payment to Johnny Depp has been forwarded to various charities. TMZ reported that the actor dropped the defamation lawsuit settlement.
According to sources nearby TMZThe money, paid out through Heard’s insurance after Heard and Depp agreed to settle their case rather than Heard appealing the decision in 2022, will be split into five separate payments of $200,000 to different charities. The charities concerned are the Make-A-Film Foundation, The Painted Turtle, red feather, Tetiaroa Societyand the Amazonia Fund Alliance.
The move officially closes the book of the high-profile defamation lawsuit between the formerly married couple. In a trial that ran from April to June 2022, a verdict was reached that held both Heard and Depp liable for various forms of defamation.
Both actors appealed their respective verdicts, but settled and dropped their appeals, a decision Heard called “a very difficult decision” that was “not an act of concession.” December 2022 statement on Instagram.
In 2016, in the early stages of her divorce proceedings, Heard alleged that Depp physically abused her, leading to two separate lawsuits. Later in 2018, following the publication of an article in British newspaper The Sun calling Depp a “wife beater”, Depp sued News Group Newspapers Ltd for defamation in 2020, but a Supreme Court judge ruled against Depp and contended that Heard’s evidence of abuse was “essentially true”.
Following the 2020 lawsuit, a trial took place in the United States, with Depp filing a defamation complaint against Heard after a comment Heard made was published in the Washignton Post. That lawsuit ended in a ruling that found Heard’s allegations of “sexual violence” and “domestic abuse” to be false, leading to the aforementioned settlement.