The 'Machete Kills' actress calls the demand 'another lame attempt by Mr. Depp and his team to not pay my client the money she is owed.'
- Dec 24, 2016
AceShowbiz - Although they have reached a divorce settlement, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's feud is far from over. The "Black Mass" actor recently demanded his former wife pay $100,000 worth of attorney fees, and she fired back at him through her lawyer.
"After his string of recent setbacks at the box office, I'm glad that Johnny Depp seems to have rediscovered his comic touch with this laughable motion. It is just another lame attempt by Mr. Depp and his team to not pay my client the money she is owed," her lawyer said. "We look forward to prevailing in court - and to getting sick children and women in need the money that Mr. Depp is denying them."
The new feud was caused by Heard's Request for Order earlier this month to ensure that Depp gives her the remaining portion of her $7 million divorce settlement and pays her $35,435 legal fees in full. Depp called her move "entirely unnecessary" and requested his attorney's fees be deducted from his next divorce settlement payment.
"The impact of her relentless pursuit on Johnny - the damage her false allegations have caused his personal and professional reputation, his and his family's emotional well-being, and his finances appears to be of no interest to Amber," his lawyer Laura Wasser said, adding that the actor had already racked up nearly $1 million in attorney's fees.
He accused Heard of acting "erratically" and "uncooperatively" and violating their confidentiality agreement "almost weekly." According to him, she "continues to needlessly litigate a case which has been settled, all while parading in front of the media in a desperate attempt to extend her 15 minutes of fame."
Just last week, Amber Heard addressed the issues of confidentiality. "He claimed that I violated the confidentiality provisions of the [Deal Point Memorandum] by announcing that I was donating my settlement to charities," she defended herself. "In fact, I made those donations in good faith and I was responding to the leaks by Johnny's agents bragging that I had settled for substantially less than a reported, earlier offered sum and attempting to label me a gold digger."
