{"id":270315,"date":"2022-12-19T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=270315"},"modified":"2022-12-19T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:06:00","slug":"i-never-chose-this-amber-heard-says-case-with-johnny-depp-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/12\/19\/i-never-chose-this-amber-heard-says-case-with-johnny-depp-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Never Chose This&#8221;: Amber Heard Says Case With Johnny Depp Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"'I Never Chose This': Amber Heard Says Case With Johnny Depp Settled\" alt=\"'I Never Chose This': Amber Heard Says Case With Johnny Depp Settled\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-06\/vo0lansg_johnny-depp-amber-heard_625x300_02_June_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Washington: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Actress Amber Heard announced Monday that she had reached a settlement in the multi-million dollar defamation case filed against her by her former husband Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Heard, in a post on Instagram, did not reveal the terms of the settlement, which comes after a Virginia jury ordered her to pay $10 million to the &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221; star.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmWiuanLXPT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Heard said she was dropping her appeal of the damages awarded by the jury and settling the case because she &#8220;simply cannot go through&#8221; another trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now 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,&#8221; Heard said.<\/p>\n<p>The jury found Depp and Heard liable for defamation &#8212; but sided more strongly with the &#8220;Pirates&#8221; star following an intense six-week trial riding on bitterly contested allegations of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The jury awarded $10 million in damages to Depp after finding that a 2018 newspaper article penned by Heard on her experience of &#8220;sexual violence&#8221; was defamatory.<\/p>\n<p>Heard, who had countersued, was awarded $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The case, live streamed to millions, featured lurid and intimate details about the Hollywood celebrities&#8217; private lives.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/amber-heard-says-settlement-reached-in-defamation-case-by-johnny-depp-3620957\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Washington: Actress Amber Heard announced Monday that she had reached a settlement in the multi-million dollar defamation case filed against her by her former husband Johnny Depp. Ms Heard, in a post on Instagram, did not reveal the terms of the settlement, which comes after a Virginia jury ordered her to pay $10 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[207980,325545,325546,207979,325547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}