GoFundMe Removes Campaign Raising Money To Help Amber Heard Pay Johnny Depp: Report

GoFundMe shut down a fake fundraiser claiming to help Amber Heard pay the damages she owes Johnny Depp following the former couple's defamation trial.

After their six-week trial, a Virginia jury decided that Heard would have to pay Depp $10.35 million in damages after finding that the "Aquaman" actress defamed him in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed about surviving domestic abuse. Heard was also awarded $2 million in damages as she partially won her countersuit over comments made by Depp's former lawyer, who called her abuse allegations a hoax.

Shortly after the verdict was announced, a person named Kimberly Moore started a GoFundMe page that aimed to raise $1 million to allegedly help Heard pay damages to Depp. However, the platform quickly took the campaign down, TMZ reported.

"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," the page's description read, according to a screenshot obtained by the outlet.

Moore claimed that she had contacted Heard's legal team and vowed that the actress would have direct access to any money raised from the campaign.

However, a spokesperson for GoFundMe said that it was determined that neither Heard nor anyone from her team created the page so it was shut down. The platform was able to flag the profile before it raised a substantial amount of money, according to the rep.

GoFundMe said it would continue to look for fake pages and act accordingly.

On Thursday, Heard's lawyer Elaine Bredehoft told "Today" that her client can't pay the $10.35 million she owes Depp. The attorney also said that Heard plans to appeal — and has "excellent grounds" for it.

Unnamed sources told the New York Post that Heard is "broke" due to hefty legal fees associated with the defamation trial and her past lavish spending on travel, clothes, gifts and wine.

Kentucky-based attorney Sandra Spurgeon of Spurgeon Law Group told CBS News that it's a serious deal if Heard can't pay Depp the damages.

"For an individual who doesn't have the ability to pay the judgment and no ability to post the bond, then there is a real issue if the winning party intends to execute the judgment," Spurgeon said.

According to the lawyer, some options for Heard include posting a bond for the damages and filing for bankruptcy, though the latter would only eliminate the $8 million in compensatory damages. She also suggested that Depp could choose to waive the monetary damages.

Legal expert Emily D. Baker suggested that if Heard is unable to fulfill those payments, the actress' and Depp's lawyers may start negotiating the amount after the judgment is entered on June 24. She also said that if Depp is not interested in the money, then the actor may have just wanted to prevent Heard from repeating her allegations.

"[Depp's lawyer] Ben Chew said in his closing argument that Johnny Depp wasn't seeking to punish Amber Heard with money," Baker told People. "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."