Court documents released on Monday, August 1, reportedly revealed that Amber Heard’s sister had admitted the actress had cut off Johnny Depp’s finger during an incident in Australia in 2015. Depp, 59, testified during the high-profile defamation trial in Virginia that ex-wife Heard, 36, severed his finger when she threw a vodka bottle at him. In a newly-released transcript, Jennifer Howell said during a deposition that witnessed Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, receive texts from the actress in which she admits to her role in the violent incident, according to the New York Post.
She recollects when Amber's sister screamed in the office 'she's cut off his God damn finger' while the celebrity couple was in Australia as Depp was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film. “She [Henriquez] just screamed, ‘She’s done it now. She’s cut off his Godamn finger,’ and made this huge proclamation,” Howell, an art curator recalled. Howell also testified, “And she goes, ‘She cut off his finger. She cut off his finger.’ And then she bolted out the door and was like, ‘I got to call somebody. I got to call somebody.’ And she went out the door and she called someone. I don’t know who she called. That’s what was said.” Howell said that Henriquez eventually returned and explained that she was referring to her sister and Depp.
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In June, Heard was ordered to pay Depp $10.35 million at the end of an explosive six-week trial, when a jury ruled she had defamed her ex-husband in a newspaper opinion piece published in 2018. Depp received $15 million, including $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The judge later capped the damages at the state's maximum of $350,000 leaving Depp with a total of $8.35 million. Meanwhile, Heard won one of her three countersuits claims related to statements made by Depp's lawyer suggesting she and her friends trashed their apartment before calling the police. Heard was rewarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100 million she asked for.
However, Heard denied causing the injury, saying that he hurt himself during a drunken rage. During the trial, Depp testified he lied to a doctor about the nature of his injuries when he claimed he slammed his finger in an accordion door. At the time, the actor was shooting the fifth part of “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Meanwhile, unsealed court documents show Amber Heard walked away from a divorce payout from Johnny Depp that could have run to tens of millions of dollars, as the financially-challenged actress sells her beloved California home. Documents seen by the Daily Beast show that the Aquaman star, 36, ignored guidance from her legal team not to pursue Depp for the maximum cash she was entitled to after they filed for divorce in 2016. She could have sought half Depp's $33 million he made filming the fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean since it was made while they were married. But Heard chose not to, and wrote them an email saying she was being amazingly true to (her) word, that this is not about the money.
A judge refused to let that evidence be admitted during Depp's defamation lawsuit against Heard. She was ordered to pay Depp a total of $8.3 million after being found guilty of defamation but says she doesn't have enough cash to do so. She may now have begun raising some of that cash by selling her Yucca Valley home in the California desert for $1.05 million, a profit of about $500,000 for Heard, as per TMZ. Heard allegedly bought the house in 2019 through an anonymous trust tied to the actress. There is speculation about Heard's ability to immediately cover the damages, which includes $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. She will also receive $ 2 million from Depp in a counter-lawsuit, leaving her with just over $8 million to pay.