{"id":30857,"date":"2022-12-20T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=225634"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:39:26","slug":"amber-heard-settles-defamation-case-johnny-depp","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/amber-heard-settles-defamation-case-johnny-depp\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Settles Defamation Case With Johnny Depp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225635\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225635\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1256074119.jpg\" alt=\"Amber Heard\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/amber-heard-baby-surrogate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amber Heard<\/a> has settled the highly-publicised defamation case made against her by former husband <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/johnny-depp-victory-celebrity-support-new-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnny Depp<\/a>. Taking to Instagram overnight the actress described the &#8220;very difficult&#8221; decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for me to say that I never chose this,\u201d she wrote in a post. \u201cI defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimized when they come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to. I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmWiuanLXPT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Amber Heard (@amberheard)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heard was ordered to pay $10 million USD in compensatory damages and $5 million USD in punitive damages after a jury unanimously agreed that Heard libelled her ex-husband by writing the infamous 2018 op-ed in the\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>titled, &#8220;I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture&#8217;s wrath&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She won just one of six claims after she countersued the <em>Pirates of the Caribbean\u00a0<\/em>alum, claiming his lawyer Adam Waldman made statements on his behalf that lost her work. She is set to receive $2 million USD in damages.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the actress had initially <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/amber-heard-appeal-defamation-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned to appeal the decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225636\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225636\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-488487181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1539\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; MAY 06: Actress Amber Heard and Actor Johnny Depp attend Spike TV&#8217;s &#8220;Don Rickles: One Night Only&#8221; on May 6, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Spike TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a post-trial interview the\u00a0<em>Aquaman\u00a0<\/em>actress <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/amber-heard-appeal-defamation-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticised social media and the impact it had<\/a> on the court proceedings. Speaking to\u00a0<em>NBC News Today,\u00a0<\/em>she said, \u201cBut even somebody who is sure I am deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I am lying, you still couldn\u2019t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there\u2019s been a fair representation. You can not tell me that you think this has been fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 Depp lost a libel case against\u00a0<em>The Sun\u00a0<\/em>in the UK, suing the newspaper for calling him a &#8220;wife beater&#8221;. The judge at the time found the article was &#8220;substantially true&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Heard and Depp began dating in 2012 and married in 2015. 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