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Amber Heard Agrees to Settle Johnny Depp Defamation Case
Amber Heard is backmost successful the spotlight and each smiles.
The Aquaman actress attended the satellite premiere of her latest project, the movie In the Fire, astatine the Taormina Film Festival successful Italy June 23. It marked her archetypal reddish carpet lawsuit since she her and ex-husband Johnny Depp's televised defamation proceedings came to an end a small much than a twelvemonth ago.
Heard, 37, wore a achromatic caped maxi formal with matching level sandals and wore her agelong blonde hairsbreadth down successful curls arsenic she smiled for pics connected the carpet—technically teal—alone and with co-stars specified as Luca Calvani, Eduardo Noriega and Yari Gugliucci their director, Conor Allyn, arsenic good arsenic actor William "Billy" Baldwin, who attended the festival to beforehand the animated comedy Billie's Magic World (which besides features his member Alec Baldwin).
Heard also appeared to beryllium successful large spirits portion taking selfies with fans and signing autographs.
In the Fire stars the actress as doctor who travels to a distant plantation successful the 1890s to treat a lad with unexplained abilities who the section clergyman believes is possessed by the Devil.
The movie, which has nary merchandise date, is the past acting task that Heard changeable and was filmed successful Italy successful aboriginal 2022, months earlier her and Depp's defamation proceedings began that April. She besides reprises her relation of Mera successful the upcoming Aquaman sequel, which was filmed successful 2021 and is acceptable for merchandise Dec. 20.
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After the proceedings concluded June 1, 2022, Heard mostly kept distant from the nationalist eye. But this past May, the histrion began to be photographed successful Madrid. Speaking Spanish, she has told section paparazzi galore times that she loves living successful Spain.
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The trial had ended with a triumph for Depp, who made his ain reddish carpet return this past May astatine premiere of the movie Jeanne du Barry at the Cannes Film Festival.
Depp had sued Heard for $50 million. A assemblage determined that the histrion was liable for defaming the histrion with a 2018 Washington Post op-ed bearing her byline, which stated that "two years ago, I became a nationalist fig representing home abuse." While the histrion was not named, Heard had publically accused him successful a 2016 restraining bid of home violence and helium denied the allegations astatine the time.
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Following the jury's verdict, Amber was ordered to pay Depp much than $10 cardinal successful damages. Heard, who called the ruling a "setback" for women, did score a tiny triumph of her own pursuing a $100 cardinal countersuit against the actor. Simultaneously, the assemblage ordered Depp to wage her $2 cardinal due to the fact that his lawyer had accused her of perpetrating a "hoax."
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Both actors appealed their verdicts but yet dropped their appeals to settle the case last December, with Amber agreeing to pay her ex $1 million. Earlier this month, a source adjacent to the Pirates of the Caribbean star told E! News that Depp plans to donate the wealth to 5 charities.
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