Johnny Depp already has plans for immoderate of the colony wealth he'll person from his ex, Amber Heard.
 
Shortly aft the Aquaman histrion announced connected Dec. 19 that she decided to settee the defamation lawsuit brought distant by her ex, the actor's attorneys person responded to the development.
 
"We are pleased to formally adjacent the doorway connected this achy section for Mr. Depp, who made wide passim this process that his precedence was astir bringing the information to light," Depp's attorneys, Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez, told E! News successful a Dec. 19 statement. "The jury's unanimous determination and the resulting judgement successful Mr. Depp's favour against Ms. Heard stay afloat successful place."
 
They added, "The outgo of $1M—which Mr. Depp is pledging and volition really donate to charities—reinforces Ms. Heard's acknowledgement of the decision of the ineligible system's rigorous pursuit for justice."
 
In aboriginal June, a Virginia assemblage ruled that Heard, who filed for divorcement from the actor successful 2016, was liable of defaming Depp successful her 2018 Washington Post op-ed—a portion successful which she described herself arsenic a "public fig representing home abuse" without naming Depp.

"I marque this determination having mislaid religion successful the American ineligible system," she said, "where my unprotected grounds served arsenic amusement and societal media fodder."
 
She besides noted that adjacent if her appeal—which she filed earlier this month—was successful information "successful," she would perchance look a retrial, "where a caller assemblage would person to see the grounds again," adding that she "simply cannot spell done that" again.

"In settling this case," Heard concluded, "I americium choosing the state to dedicate my clip to the enactment that helped maine heal aft my divorce; enactment that exists successful realms successful which I consciousness seen, heard and believed, and which I cognize I tin effect change."