Press reports revealed that the American movie star, Amber Heard, asked to meet her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, in order to sympathize with him so that he would accept the reduction of the fine she was convicted of, but the move was in vain.
Amber Heard was found guilty by a US jury of defamation of her ex-husband, and ordered that she pay compensation of $10 million, in addition to fines of $350,000.
According to “elnacional.cat”, Heard requested a meeting with Johnny Depp, and that was what actually happened, in a private, far from the limelight, and then asked him to accept a reduction in compensation.
But the actors and the ex-couple did not reach an agreement, at which point Amber Heard asked her defense team to appeal against the jury’s decision.
Heard’s defense team had expressed its displeasure with the ruling, which condemned his client, saying that it was tainted by contradictions and not fair.
Earlier, Heard’s lawyer stated that his client could never pay the fine imposed by the jury.
Under the ruling, Heard must pay $10.35 million in damages, while Depp was also found guilty of paying the actress $2 million in damages.
If Heard is unable to pay the jury’s compensation, she must formally declare bankruptcy.
In this case, the person aggrieved and in whose favor the compensation is adjudged, in this case Johnny Depp, returns to the court in order to consider the possibility of extracting money from the assets of the convicted person.