Amber Heard is having a rough week. After a jury unanimously agreed that Heard lied about being abused by Johnny Depp, she is now facing financial ruin due to the hefty amount of money she was ordered to pay him in damages.
While the jury decided that Depp should receive $10 million in compensatory damages and an additional $5 million in punitive damages, the judge pointed out that Virginia state law caps punitive damages at $350,000. Heard did have a small victory in court after the jury agreed with a portion of her countersuit and awarded her $2 million. When all is said and done, Amber Heard owes Johnny Depp a whopping $8.35 million…and now her lawyer is saying she doesn’t have enough money to pay up.
Amber Heard’s Attorney Says That She Is ‘Absolutely Not’ Able To Pay The $8 Million She Owes To Johnny Depp After Losing Defamation Trial
Heard’s lead attorney Elaine Charlson Bredhoft replied “No, absolutely not” when asked if her client would be able to compensate her vindicated ex-husband. The attorney also insists that Heard has “excellent grounds” to appeal the verdict, but that will also cost a pretty penny in legal fees.
Bredhoft slammed the jury’s decision to rule in Depp’s favor, saying, “It’s a horrible message. It’s a setback, a significant setback because that’s exactly what it means. Unless you pull out your phone and you video your spouse or your significant other beating you, effectively, you won’t be believed” before alleging that their opinion had been tainted by the media.
“There’s no way they couldn’t have been influenced. It was horrible. It was really, really lopsided.It’s like the Roman coliseum, how they viewed this whole case,” Bredhoft boldly insisted.
Heard’s attorney doubled down even further on her criticism by saying that the actress was unrightfully “demonized”. “We had an enormous amount of evidence suppressed in this case that was in the UK case…A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed and it caused the jury to be confused,” Bredhoft also claimed.
In an apparent ploy for sympathy, Bredhoft suggested that Amber Heard feels responsible for letting down other women who actually have been victims of domestic abuse. “One of the first things she said is, I am so sorry to all those women out there. This is a setback. For all women in and outside the courtroom. And she feels — she feels the burden of that,” she suggested.
The jury agreed that Johnny Depp was defamed on all three counts pertaining to Amber Heard’s 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post in which she claimed to be a survivor of domestic abuse, and that Depp was her so-called ‘abuser’. Now that Depp has managed to clear his name and potentially rejuvenate his career, it should be interesting to see what Amber’s next move will be from here.
