{"id":16906,"date":"2023-06-07T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=16906"},"modified":"2023-06-07T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:56:34","slug":"amber-heard-manages-to-pay-1m-to-johnny-depp-a-year-after-defamation-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/showbiz\/amber-heard-manages-to-pay-1m-to-johnny-depp-a-year-after-defamation-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard manages to pay $1m to Johnny Depp a year after defamation trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Heard manages to pay $1m to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIJohnnyDepp\">Johnny Depp<\/a> a year after defamation trial. Amber Heard has paid her ex-husband Johnny Depp the settlement fee she owned him in bombshell libel case a year after their trial ended.<\/p>\n<p>The Aquaman star covered the $1 million settlement with help of her insurance company, according to court documents filed by Heard\u2019s lawyers, as per Radar Online.<\/p>\n<p>Heard lost the libel case against the Pirates of the Caribbean actor after the jury found out that she, in fact, defamed the star with her domestic abuse accusations.<\/p>\n<p>The Rum Diary actor was told to pay 15 million in settlement ($10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages) to Depp after their six-week-long trial ended.<\/p>\n<p>However, the exes reached a settlement after the verdict was announced as Heard agreed to pay Depp $1 million but her insurance companied denied to cover the settlement fee on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/can-amber-heard-hope-to-win-johnny-depp-appeal.html\">Can Amber Heard \u2018hope\u2019 to win Johnny Depp appeal?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York Marine and General Insurance Co. said that they won\u2019t be paying the fee because the actor committed a &#8220;willful&#8221; and &#8220;malicious&#8221; act of misconduct by defaming her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Depp\u2019s former lawyer Camille Vasquez also confirmed that Heard has cleared the settlement fee in an interview with People Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. Heard did pay Mr. Depp, not the other way around. I want to make that very, very clear,&#8221; Vasquez said. &#8220;The judgment still stands. It will always still stand for the remainder of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cAnd Mr. Depp will be donating the money that Ms. Heard paid to settle the appeal to a number of charities. Case closed, and we couldn&#8217;t be happier about it for him in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Heard manages to pay $1m to Johnny Depp a year after defamation trial. Amber Heard has paid her ex-husband Johnny Depp the settlement fee she owned him in bombshell libel case a year after their trial ended. The Aquaman star covered the $1 million settlement with help of her insurance company, according to court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6637,4507,588,295],"class_list":["post-16906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-amber-heard","tag-johnny-depp","tag-new-york","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}