Amber Heard ignored her lawyers and chose not to ask for more money in Johnny Depp divorce settlement, report says

• Amber Heard chose not to ask for more money in her divorce from Johnny Depp, The Daily Beast reported.
• She was entitled to half of Depp's income from "Pirates of the Caribbean," court documents show.
• It is unclear how much Depp made for the film, but it was higher than $33 million, the report said.

Amber Heard ignored her lawyers and chose not to ask for more money in her divorce with Johnny Depp, The Daily Beast reported, citing newly-unsealed court documents from their defamation trial.

More than 6,000 pages of court documents released over the weekend showed claims that were submitted by Heard and Depp's lawyers in preparation for the trial in Fairfax, Virginia, The Daily Beast reported.

Among the revelations was that Heard was entitled to half of Depp's income from the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie because he was working on it during their marriage, and the money was therefore considered a "community property asset," The Daily Beast reported.

It is unclear how much he was paid for the movie, but the documents show that it was most likely higher than what he earned for the fourth installment of the Disney franchise, which was more $33 million, The Daily Beast reported.

Her lawyers pleaded with Heard to take the "tens of millions of dollars," but she refused, the documents show. It is unclear why.

After they were not able to sway her, her lawyers told her via email that she was being "amazingly true to your word, that this is not about the money," The Daily Beast reported, citing the documents.

That evidence was excluded from Depp and Heard's defamation trial as the Penney Azcarate, the presiding judge, had rejected the inclusion of any evidence related to their divorce proceedings, The Daily Beast reported.

Representatives for Depp and Heard did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Depp and Heard met on the set of the 2011 film "The Rum Diary." The couple married in 2015, and divorced in 2016 after a year of marriage. The fifth installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean, named "Dead Men Tell No Tales," came out in 2017.

Earlier this year, Depp took Heard to court over a December 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she implied, without naming him, that she was a survivor of sexual and domestic violence. Heard then countersued.

Jurors found both Depp and Heard liable for defaming each other, but awarded Depp more in damages. 

Depp received $15 million, including $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard won one of her three countersuits claims and was rewarded $2 million in compensatory damages.