Australian prosecutors have opted to drop their case against Amber Heard for allegedly lying to a court about how her two dogs got to Australia in 2015.
Meanwhile, the false documentation charge carried a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a fine of more than $7,650 in U.S. dollars.
Magistrate Bernadette Callaghan, instead, sentenced Heard to a one-month good behavior bond, under which she would have been fined $1,000 Australian if she committed any other crimes in Australia in the month following her sentence. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were in Australia while the actor filmed the fifth"Pirates of the Caribbean" film.
In 2015, Depp’s assistant allegedly informed Heard that taking the dogs to Australia would violate its rules on protecting biosecurity from foreign entities. Heard allegedly made a false statement on her immigration card when she reportedly checked"no" to the question of importing anything into the country that should have been declared.
Heard lost a nationally-televised defamation trial against Depp in Virginia last year. The case ended in June 2022 with a $10.35 million judgment against Heard for defaming Depp by penning a 2018 op-ed in which she referred to herself as a domestic abuse victim. The op-ed did not name Depp. The jury handed Heard $2 million in her countersuit.Janelle Ash is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
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