Johnny Depp must be happy right now… As you know, the Finding Neverland star has been seen as the winner of the defamation case with Amber Heard after the jury found that she defamed him in the 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post that chronicled her experience as a domestic abuse survivor.
Subsequently, she was ordered to pay $15 million in damages before it was reduced to $10.35 million due to Virginia law. Meanwhile, Johnny was told to pay $2 million when he was found liable for claims his attorney made about Amber.
However, that is not all he will have to pay! Those who’ve followed his legal battle with Amber Heard know that the court case also focused on proving the actress lied about giving her promised donation of a $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
But in order to do that, Johnny had to subpoena the records from the nonprofit (who helped Amber with The Washington Post op-ed that was at the center of the defamation trial) to prove that she never handed over the cash. Related: Dakota Johnson Wants People To Leave Her Out Of This Johnny Conspiracy Theory! When the ACLU initially refused to turn over the documents, the two got into a heated exchange, leading the Pirates of the Caribbean alum to sue them.
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