Depp had previously agreed to pay out the $6.8 million over the course of one year, and Heard’s legal team says that he has already failed to pay the first two installments of that plan. He’s also failed to transfer the couple’s Range Rover to Heard’s name, handle the division of the rest of their formerly shared personal property, or pay Heard’s more than $30,000 in legal fees, all of which were part of the terms of the settlement. A personal statement written by Heard was included in the legal filing, and in it she expresses her disapproval of Depp’s handling of the news that she planned to donate the entirety of their settlement to charity: For Depp’s part, while he hasn’t responded publicly to Heard’s accusations, he does have a legal argument for his refusal to pay the settlement. According to him, Heard broke the settlement’s confidentiality clause when she discussed abuse she’d suffered in an open letter for Porter magazine and in a PSA for domestic violence victims she recently appeared in. However, Heard never mentions Depp by name in either of those two things, and it’s unclear whether they might actually constitute a breach of contract simply because of the public nature of the pair’s relationship and their divorce.
