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JOHNNY DEPP HAS A NEW LEGAL ISSUE TO WORRY ABOUT
By FRANCES DEAN
The following story contains discussion of domestic violence.
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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's high-profile defamation case is in the hands of the jury as of May 31, 2022. While both Depp and Heard are claiming financial losses due to their mutual accusations of domestic abuse, Depp has always had a turbulent financial history, and now, a brand-new debt has been added to his list of money troubles.
The American Civil Liberties Union — one of the many parties involved in the Depp v. Heard case — is asking for $86,000 from Depp. Court documents revealed that Heard promised to pay $3.5 million to the ACLU from her divorce with Depp; however, an ACLU representative testified that Heard only paid a little over a million of the total amount.
Now, the ACLU is demanding that Depp cover the expenses they paid in order to provide this information. As the motion put it, "[the organization and its attorneys] cannot get back the significant time they spent responding to Mr. Depp's subpoenas and the disruption to their work," so they expect to be paid back in full.
Both Depp and Heard stand to lose more than money when all is said and done; just think of their Hollywood careers. "Hollywood is a strange place," a PR expert told CNN. "When you air your dirty laundry in front of the machine, the executives, all the people that make the parts move, they sort of recoil from a hot flame."