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Actress. Producer. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 109. Play trailer 1:36. In the Fire (2023) 99+ Videos. 99+ Photos. Amber Laura Heard was born in Austin, Texas, to Patricia Paige Heard (née Parsons), an internet researcher, and David C. Heard (David Clinton Heard), a contractor.
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Jun 1, 2022 · A jury in Virginia on Wednesday found that the actor Johnny Depp had been defamed by his ex-wife Amber Heard in a 2018 op-ed, a verdict that handed the actor a victory in his long, messy battle...
Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018).
Jun 2, 2022 · FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury sided Wednesday with Johnny Depp in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, awarding the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor more than $10 million and vindicating his allegations that Heard lied about Depp abusing her before and during their brief marriage.
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- Settlement follows a contentious, weekslong trial
- ‘Lost faith in the American legal system’
Amber Heard has settled her defamation case against ex-husband Johnny Depp, she announced Monday on Instagram.
Heard, 36, called the decision to settle with Depp, 59, "very difficult," adding that it followed "a great deal of deliberation."
“It’s important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised when they come forward,” Heard wrote.
Heard framed the settlement as a last resort, characterizing it as "an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to."
"I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward," she added.
Depp's attorneys said in a statement that Heard is paying Depp $1 million as part of the settlement.
Heard settled months after a weekslong televised trial culminated with jurors’ finding that she had defamed Depp by writing in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post that she had become a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Although the essay never mentioned Depp by name, his attorneys said it indirectly referred to allegations she made against him during their 2016 divorce.
During the trial, she testified in graphic terms about a sexual assault she alleged, as well as allegations of incidents of physical abuse. Depp denied all allegations of abuse.
Social media posts during the trial overwhelmingly appeared to favor Depp. Support for Heard was harder to find, with memes and viral content disparaging her abounding online. Some online creators said the dynamics in the online response to the trial were toxic for domestic abuse survivors.
Last month, major national feminist organizations came to Heard’s defense, alleging in a letter, first reported by NBC News, that the vilification and harassment of Heard and her supporters were “unprecedented in both vitriol and scale,” marking one of the biggest public shows of support for Heard after the verdict.
The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages; Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages but nothing in punitive damages.
Heard appealed the verdict, leading to the settlement.
In her statement, Heard drew a contrast between how the court battles played out in the U.K. and the U.S., writing that she has "lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder.”
Heard wrote that in the U.K., she "was vindicated by a robust, impartial and fair system, where I was protected from having to give the worst moments of my testimony in front of the world's media, and where the court found that I was subjected to domestic and sexual violence."
In the U.S., however, "I exhausted almost all my resources in advance of and during a trial in which I was subject to a courtroom in which abundant, direct evidence that corroborated my testimony was excluded and in which popularity and power mattered more than reason and due process," she said. "In the interim I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live."
Heard said settling the case will allow her to spend her time "productively and purposefully."
"For too many years I have been caged in an arduous and expensive legal process, which has shown itself unable to protect me and my right to free speech. I cannot afford to risk an impossible bill — one that is not just financial but also psychological, physical and emotional," she wrote. "Women shouldn’t have to face abuse or bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unfortunately it is not uncommon."
Heard signed off on her statement by thanking her supporters and her lawyers for their work on the case, and she vowed she "will not be threatened, disheartened, or dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth."
Apr 21, 2022 · The jury in the defamation trial in Virginia between the actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard found that Mr. Depp had been defamed in a 2018 op-ed, a verdict that handed the actor a victory in...
May 4, 2022 · Actor Amber Heard testifies at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on Wednesday. Elizabeth Frantz/AFP via Getty Images. But as her testimony continued, Heard, now 36, accused Depp of...
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