Johnny Depp Reportedly Receives $1 Million Settlement From Amber Heard & Is Sharing With Charity

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Johnny Depp, 60, received $1 cardinal successful damages from his ex-wife Amber Heard, 37, implicit a twelvemonth aft their defamation trial ended, according to TMZ. The work reported connected June 13 that Amber’s security institution paid the colony from their trial, and Johnny is allegedly giving distant each the wealth to 5 charities. The Pirates of the Caribbean prima volition reportedly donate $200,000 each to Make-A-Film Foundation, The Painted Turtle, Red Feather, Tetiaroa Society and the Amazonia Fund Alliance. Those are 5 organizations that Johnny “believes in,” TMZ said, truthful the Oscar victor wants the wealth to spell there, alternatively of successful his ain pockets.

Amber Heard; Johnny Depp (Photo: Shutterstock)

Amber lost her lawsuit against Johnny connected June 1, 2022, and she decided to settle the defamation case that December. “After a large woody of deliberation I person made a precise hard determination to settee the defamation lawsuit brought against maine by my ex-husband successful Virginia,” Amber wrote connected Instagram Dec. 19. The Aquaman star had filed to appeal the verdict wherever she was recovered blameworthy of defaming Johnny successful an op-ed portion for The Washington Post. She ne'er mentioned her ex-husband by sanction successful the article, but Johnny sued her for defamation, and aft a highly-publicized trial played retired wherever Johnny had a ton of nationalist support, he won.

When Amber announced she was settling the case, she explained that she ne'er wanted to springiness up successful her legal warfare with her erstwhile spouse. “I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed,” she said successful her Dec. 2022 statement. “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.” Amber besides clarified that her colony doesn’t alteration her story. “I person made nary admission. This is not an enactment of concession,” she said.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp (Photo: Shutterstock)

Johnny and Amber person been surviving precise otherwise since the trial. Johnny has been successful the spotlight, by going connected circuit with his set The Hollywood Vampires. He besides attended the Cannes Film Festival successful May to premiere his caller movie Jeanne Du Barry, and helium got a large effect from the fans successful France. The histrion adjacent received a long lasting ovation for his show arsenic King Louis XV successful the movie.

Amber, meanwhile, moved to Spain wherever she’s staying retired of the spotlight with her 2-year-old daughter, Oonagh. A person of Amber’s reportedly told the Daily Mail that the histrion is “happy” successful her new location country. “I don’t deliberation she is successful immoderate hurry to instrumentality to enactment oregon to Hollywood,” the person added, “but she volition astir apt travel backmost erstwhile the clip is close for the close project.”

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