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Let's talk about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
It's a pretty explosive thing and volatile situation
that's been going on with these two people
who actually weren't married for very long.
I want to go a little bit
into the history of these two people and
then, I think it's a really interesting situation,
because a lot of people don't realize that you can actually file
what I call ‘‘Ancillary actions’’ to divorce cases,
which is what this is,
what's actually going on with these two people,
this is not actually the divorce case per se,
this is something else that's going on and
I think that especially, for those of you
who are dealing with narcissists,
this is something that might be of interest to you.
It's a different kind of a case,
something else that you could potentially file
if you want to have extra leverage
or something else that you want to do.
So, let's talk about
the history of what's going on between these two people
or what happened between these two people.
Let's see, the key facts are,
I guess they met in 2009, on the set of ‘‘The Rum Diary’’
where they played each other's love interest.
He split with his partner of 14 years in 2012, Vanessa Paradis,
in 2013, they appeared together during promotions
of his movie, ‘‘The Lone Ranger’’.
In 2014, they are engaged, he is heard calling her
‘‘As sweet as can be’’, ‘‘She's very good for me’’.
In 2015, he married her.
He was 51, she was 28, of course.
So that was February of 2015,
they were married by May of 2016,
so like 15 months, she files for divorce,
citing irreconcilable differences,
which is really just how you write that it's a no fault divorce,
irretrievably broken irreconcilable differences,
Those are the terms that courts use just to basically say,
‘‘I want a divorce’’.
Apparently, at the same time, she gets a restraining order
against him saying that he was abusive
to her throughout the marriage.
He denies the allegations, accusing her of trying
to blackmail him into a better financial settlement.
So, they were married 15 months and that was in May of 2016.
We are sitting here more than
5 years later and the battle rages on.
Even if you're not very good at math,
I think you can figure out that they've been fighting and
dealing with this breakup way longer
than they were actually married.
Yes, ongoing ugly divorces between people and
especially, celebs, are nothing new.
Some of them play out in the public,
such as like Brad and Angelina, for example,
I have a video on that one, by the way,
if you want to check that out, called
‘‘The real reason Brad and Angelina got divorced’’.
If you want to check out that video,
you are welcome to do that and
for those of you, who hate ongoing divorces and
you just want peace in your life
I mean, for all of you guys who just want peace and
there's a price for freedom and it's different for everyone,
certainly no problem with that.
But anyway, in August of 2016,
like actually pretty quickly,
they announced their divorce settlement,
she gets seven million dollars, not a bad take,
by the way, for a 15-month marriage and
I guess she donates the entire thing to charity.
Then they issue a joint statement, at the time,
saying that their relationship was intensely
passionate and at times volatile,
but always bound by love, that there was never
any intent of physical or emotional harm.
They agree not to disparage each other in the future,
the divorce is finalized in January of 2017,
then after that, she gets involved with Elon Musk,
what happens is that they're not supposed to
disparage each other as part of their divorce settlement,
but I guess she ends up disparaging him,
she ends up saying things about him,
so he goes on and he gets hired by JK Rowling
to be in this movie called ‘‘Fantastic Beasts’’.
He is to be paid a certain amount of money and
JK Rowling decides to let him go from this movie
after a backlash of fans decide that they're not happy
about the fact that she's hired this wife beater
because in April of 2018, ‘‘The Sun’’ newspaper
publishes an article saying that Depp is a wife beater.
So, he files a libel lawsuit against ‘‘The sun’’,
gets damages, and in December of 2018,
Heard writes an opinion piece in the Washington post
about domestic violence, doesn't name Depp,
March 2019, Depp files a 50 million dollar defamation lawsuit
over Heard’s Washington post opinion piece and
claims Heard was the abusive partner,
the lawsuit has yet to be settled and so
this has been ongoing between the two of them and
it's involving the Washington post.
She didn't actually name him, but
she basically was sort of talking about him and
so, even though this isn't actually part of their divorce,
it's still part of their relationship, and
what he's basically saying is,
hey, ‘‘I got canned from this movie because
you're saying these things about me,
there are damages involved here,
I'm not getting work, I’m being labeled as a wife beater,
this is not who I am and I'm losing money as a result,
therefore, I'm anchoring damages’’.
So, what this area of the law is actually called
is a ‘‘Tort’’ which is a personal type of damage and
towards or personal types of damages
that happen to people, like battery, assault,
that sort of thing, wrongful death, medical malpractice,
all of those sorts of things are towards personal injury.
Usually, you have to prove damages and
he's able to prove damages, because
he was let go from this movie and he actually lost money.
So, he's actually able to prove measurable damages and
that's a really, really important piece of damages.
So, what happens in lawsuits in divorce cases sometimes
is you can actually add sometimes these tort actions as well,
if there may be defamation, maybe there's an assault,
maybe there's battery, maybe there's, you know…
I've seen it happen,
when there's sexually transmitted diseases and
things like that involved, so, it's something that
you might want to discuss with your lawyer,
something that you may want to be,
you may be able to add on to your particular case
if you have a divorce action in place.
But, it is definitely something that you would have to
discuss with your lawyer to see if it's even possible
in your particular state, country, or jurisdiction.
But anyway, that is an interesting thing,
even when people are divorced and
been divorced for a really long time,
things can still continue to go on and
the scorched earth litigation can rage on, right?
So anyway,
I'd love to know what your thoughts are.
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