Johnny Depp is hoping not to pay Amber Heard anything. Photos: AFP
Johnny Depp is hoping not to pay Amber Heard anything as a result of the ex-spouses’ six-week defamation trial earlier this year.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 59, on Nov 2 filed an appeal to the jury finding that Depp should pay US$2mil to the 36-year-old Aquaman star as a result of his lawyer Adam Waldman denouncing Heard’s domestic violence claims as a hoax, TMZ reports.
Depp, in his appeal, claims that he shouldn’t be held responsible for the statements made by the attorney, remarks which he says Heard’s legal team could not prove were made with malice, which is necessary for defamation.
Depp was awarded a total of US$10.35mil in the trial over a 2018 op-ed Heard penned for The Washington Post, in which the actress referred to herself as a victim of domestic abuse.
The US$2mil Depp was ordered to pay Heard stemmed from her US$100mil countersuit. Heard in July filed a notice to appeal the verdict after she was denied a new trial.
The former couple met on the set of 2011′s The Rum Diary. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
