Under California law, she was entitled to half of Depp’s earnings during their marriage.
More than 6,000 pages of court documents used in the libel trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been revealed in the US press. And among the information unearthed is the statement that the actress has lost at least 16.5 million dollars to which she would have been entitled precisely from the profit sharing of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’, in the 2017.
Under California law, she was entitled to half of Depp’s earnings during their marriage. She is estimated to have earned $ 33 million in the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean”.
According to documents obtained by the Daily Beast website, Heard gave up this fortune and more than half of all the couple’s assets for not wanting to drag on the divorce. Depp took it all and even dragged the actress to court anyway.
Under the divorce settlement, the actress only received $ 7 million which she promised to donate. When Depp started suing her, she stopped donating her to pay the bills of her defense of her. Even so, she was accused of being interested in misogynistic social media posts stimulated by the actor’s actions.
The losses, however, did not end in divorce. Heard’s team claims in documents that the actress suffered financial losses in the “$ 47-50 million” range over a “3-5 year period” due to Depp’s defamatory statements against her, causing a depreciation. of his salary and hindering the closure of new contracts.
To worsen his financial situation, the trial verdict, which ended June 1, ordered Heard to pay Depp $ 10.35 million in damages ($ 10 million in compensatory damages and $ 350,000 in punitive damages) for a Opinion article published in the Washington Post newspaper in 2018, in which she claimed to be a survivor of domestic violence. Although the jury in the verdict was more on Depp’s side, it still ruled that Depp slandered Heard by fighting her allegations. The jury awarded Heard $ 2 million in damages – in fact, it only slightly reduced the actress’s debt, which fell to $ 8.35 million – more than she earned in the divorce.
Heard filed an appeal in July.
Source: Terra
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