Amber Heard sells home she bought in 2019 for $1.05m after being ordered to pay Johnny Depp $8.3m
Amber Heard seems to have sold a Southern California property for more than a million dollars, just as documents unsealed from their process with Johnny Depp reveal they may have left tens of millions on the table in their divorce.
Heard, 36, has since filed an appeal to overturn the million-dollar settlement after being ordered to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $8 million after losing her defamation case against the actor.
She may have started collecting some of that money by selling her Yucca Valley home in the California desert for $1.05 million, a profit of about $500,000 for Heard, as per TMZ.
Heard is said to have bought the house in 2019 through an anonymous trust connected to the actress.
There is speculation about Heard’s ability to immediately cover the damages, which include $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. She will also receive $2 million from Depp in a countersuit, leaving her owed just over $8 million.
Amber Heard appears to have sold a Southern California property for more than a million dollars, just as unsealed documents from her trial with Johnny Depp reveal they may have left tens of millions on the table in their divorce
She may have started to collect some of that money by selling her Yucca Valley home in the California desert for $1.05 million, a profit of about $500,000
Heard is said to have bought the house in 2019 through an anonymous trust connected to the actress
There is speculation about Heard’s ability to immediately cover the damages, which include $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. She will also receive $2 million from Depp in a countersuit, leaving her owed just over $8 million
The final amount was reduced from $5 million because of Virginia’s cap on such awards.
Newly unsealed court documents suggest Heard may have left more than enough to pay in their divorce.
The Daily Beast pointed out that Judge Penney Azcarate refused to allow Team Amber to submit a conversation she had with her lawyers during the divorce process.
Lawyers for the actress begged her to pursue what they felt were ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to which she was entitled through Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean profits.
They claimed that because Depp made Pirates of the Caribbean 5 during the marriage, it was ‘community property’ and a property Heard was entitled to half of.
Heard would not allow her to chase that money, with her lawyers saying via email that she was ‘true to her word’ that it wasn’t about money.
Judge Azcarate denied any reference to these emails in the context of the defamation trial.
Perhaps the most chilling revelation from the documents is that Depp’s team may have tried to submit nude photos of Heard, as well as Amber’s brief stint as an exotic dancer.
Heard’s legal team argued that these were ‘irrelevant personal matters’ which should not be allowed in the trial.
Heard, 36, addressed the judge’s decision in her defamation case against Johnny Depp on July 21 — two months after she was ordered to pay her ex-husband $10 million in damages.
Newly unsealed court documents suggest Heard may have left more than enough to pay in their divorce
Judge Penney Azcarate refused to allow Team Amber to submit a conversation she had with her lawyers during the divorce proceedings. Lawyers for the actress begged her to pursue what they felt were ‘tens of millions of dollars’ she was entitled to through Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean profits
Heard had a request for a mistrial rejected a week earlier – arguing that one of the jurors in the case should not have been eligible to serve because his call was intended for his father, who has the same name had and lived at the same address.
In June, the Aquaman star was ordered to pay her ex-husband $10.35 million at the end of an explosive six-week trial, when a jury ruled that she had defamed her ex-husband in an opinion piece in a newspaper published in 2018.
Depp, 59, was awarded $15 million, including $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
The judge later capped the damages at the state’s maximum of $350,000, leaving Depp a total of $8.35 million.
Meanwhile, Heard won one of her three counterclaims related to statements made by Depp’s attorney suggesting she and her friends trashed her apartment before calling the police.
Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100 million she requested.
Amid news of Heard’s appeal, Depp’s representatives told DailyMail.com last week that they have confidence in the verdict.
Depp and Heard filed their appeals with the Virginia Court of Appeals
‘The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented at trial and reached a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant himself defamed Mr. Depp on multiple occasions. We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand,’ said a spokesperson for Depp.
A day after Heard’s team filed an appeal, Depp’s team filed one after he was ordered to pay $2 million in damages after being convicted of a single count of defamation for saying that the claims of domestic abuse against him were false.
The Pirates of the Caribbean cast said they filed an appeal to ensure ‘all information is considered by the court’ while they return to consider Heard’s appeal.
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