Actress Amber Heard announced on Monday that she has reached an agreement to end the appeal of the defamation lawsuit against her former husband Johnny Depp in the United States.
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“After long consideration, I have made the difficult decision to enter into an agreement,” the star wrote on Instagram, without specifying the financial terms.
The 36-year-old actress had initially appealed against the verdict in June condemning her to pay 10 million dollars to the star of Pirates of the Caribbean, who in turn was to pay 2 million to Ms. Heard.
“I made this decision after losing faith in the American legal system, where my public testimony served as entertainment and gave social media food for thought,” added the actress.
The legal battle between the former spouses stems from a column published by the Washington Post in 2018, in which Amber Heard described herself as “a public figure representing domestic violence”, without naming her ex-husband.
Assuring that this text had destroyed his reputation and his career, Johnny Depp, 59, sued his ex-wife for defamation to obtain $ 50 million in damages. Amber Heard had counter-attacked and demanded the double.
At the end of six weeks of debates, the jurors of the court of Fairfax, in the suburbs of Washington, had concluded that the ex-spouses had defamed each other, but had estimated that the damages suffered by Johnny Depp were greater.
The trial, which was highly publicized and broadcast live on television, was followed by millions of viewers around the world and provoked an outburst of messages hostile to the actress on social networks.