{"id":162609,"date":"2022-12-19T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amber-heard-and-johnny-depp-announce-defamation-suit-settlement\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:53:00","slug":"amber-heard-and-johnny-depp-announce-defamation-suit-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amber-heard-and-johnny-depp-announce-defamation-suit-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard and Johnny Depp announce defamation suit settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actors Amber Heard<\/span> and Johnny Depp are settling the ex-couple’s defamation arguments against each other, they announced Monday. The actors, whose troubled marriage was laid bare in detailed, sometimes graphic testimony accusing each other of physical and verbal abuse earlier this year in a highly publicized trial in Virginia, are settling for $1 million, Depp’s attorneys said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Depp sued Heard for libel over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Even though the op-ed never mentioned Depp’s name, his lawyers argued it clearly referenced abuse Heard had made against Depp during divorce proceedings. Heard, in her suit, said she was defamed by Depp when her abuse one of his lawyers called a “hoax.”<\/p>\n

Following the high-profile trial that exposed the inner workings of their marriage, Heard was ordered to pay<\/span> $10.35 million in June to the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star. The jury also awarded Heard $2 million in her countersuit. Both sides appealed various aspects of the jury’s decision.<\/p>\n