The lawsuit for defamation filed against his ex-wife Amber Heard will not only give Johnny Depp just over $8 million dollars, but the actor will benefit in multiple ways, including a considerable increase in followers in their social networks.
And the fact is that the protagonist of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga began the trial against the ‘Aquaman’ actress with around 14 millions of followers on Instagram. Today, seven weeks later, that sum has increased to almost 23.
From the first days in court, the actor’s social networks showed an upward trend, so he quickly reached 2.6 million followers new to that network.
The magnetism of the Hollywood star had already been notorious since the first trial he launched against Amber Heard and The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom for calling him an “abuser ”, going from 6 million followers to 14.
Regarding the actress, the reality is that the controversy has also benefited her, although not with the same force as her ex, since the 24 May counted with 4.5 million followers, and today it is about to reach 5 million.
This Wednesday , the court of FairFax, Virginia, determined that Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp with the publication of an article on domestic violence in The Washinton Post, for which she was ordered to pay damages of $15 million dollars to the actor: of which, $ are for compensatory damages and $5 for punitive damages.
For his part, Depp was also sentenced for the same crime to pay $2 million to his wife.
The protagonist of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ said after meeting the sentence: “The jury has given me my life back. I’m really overwhelmed.” While Heard, who was present in the room -unlike Johnny Depp- said: “The disappointment I feel today cannot be expressed in words.”