GoFundMe SHUTS DOWN dodgy $1M fundraiser for Amber Heard started by 'actress's fan'
A fundraising page reportedly started for Amber Heard has been taken down by GoFundMe. The page was initiated soon after a ruling into the defamation trial between the 36-year-old actress and Johnny Depp was announced, and the 58-year-old actor was awarded $10.35 million damages.
As per reports, the fundraiser, aiming to raise $1 million, was not directly related to Heard as it was launched by a person called Kimberly Moore. Moore apparently started the campaign to help the ‘Aquaman’ actress to pay Depp after contacing Heard's legal team.
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The description of the now-closed down crowdsourcing page stated, “The trial was a disgrace. I believe Amber, and social media protected the abuser. The judgment exceeds her net worth. It's so sad that he was able to get away with the abuse. The judgment furthers that abuse. If you can please help her.”
A GoFundMe spokesperson said, as reported by TMZ, that they took down Moore’s page even before any donation was made on the page. It was also said that “neither Amber nor anyone on her team had created the page ... and it was shut down. The platform will continue to look for fake pages and act accordingly.”
Meanwhile, it has been reported that Heard’s team has claimed that their client won’t be able to give damages to Depp and they are planning to appeal the judgment. ‘The Rum Diary’ actress’ lawyer Elaine Bredehoft spoke with Savannah Guthrie on ‘Today’ and accused the jury of the trial of being influenced by social media. She said, “They went home every night, they have families, the families are on social media. We had a 10-day break in the middle because of the judicial conference. There's no way they couldn't have been influenced by it.”
“And it was horrible — it really, really was lopsided. It was like the Roman Colosseum, how they viewed this whole case.I was against cameras in the courtroom and I went on record with that, and had argued against it because of the sensitive nature of this [case]. But it made it a zoo,” Bredehoft added.
Besides, legal analyst Emily D. Baker has shared her views on the verdict and what would happen if Heard won’t or can’t pay Depp. Baker told PEOPLE, “It will be up to the parties, but once the judgment is entered on June 24, I wonder if the attorneys will start negotiating that judgment payment. Ben Chew said in his closing argument that Johnny Depp wasn't seeking to punish Amber Heard with money. [Chew said on Friday to the jury: The case ‘has never been about money’ or about ‘punishing’ Heard.] I imagine that they will try to settle it and you'll see a PR statement that they are not seeking to enforce the judgment. Getting the judgment is one thing. Getting the money is a whole separate thing.”
She added: “From a PR standpoint, it would not be ideal to see Johnny Depp trying to aggressively enforce this judgment.... We'll see what they do. I don't think we'll see them aggressively pursuing this judgment right away. And I don't think they necessarily should at this point.”