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Johnny Depp’s Representative Warns against Repeating ‘Defamatory’ Claims as Amber Heard Says She Can Speak Freely after the Two Settle Lawsuit

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Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp have settled their defamation lawsuits against each other.

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Brett Ward, co-chair of the matrimonial and family law practice at AmLaw 100 firm Blank Rome, agreed with Heard's lawyers, saying the inconsistent verdicts argument was the "most compelling" part of Heard's brief. 

"It's kind of a logical inconsistency," Ward told Insider. Amber's "statements would have to be untrue for Johnny Depp to win, and Johnny Depp's lawyer's statements would have to be untrue for her to win. And it can't be both ways." 

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"Johnny Depp’s Representative Warns against Repeating ‘Defamatory’ Claims as Amber Heard Says She Can Speak Freely after the Two Settle Lawsuit," by Jake Epstein, Jacob Shamsian, and Ashley Collman was published in Insider on December 19, 2022.