Where Is Amber Heard Now? All About Her Life in Spain After Welcoming Twins

• Amber Heard left the United States after her and ex Johnny Depp’s defamation trial ended in 2022

• The Aquaman actress announced in May 2025 that she had welcomed twins, who joined her daughter Oonagh

• Heard has said she wants to keep acting

Amber Heard is beginning a new chapter as a mom of three.

On Mother’s Day 2025, Heard announced she’d welcomed twins — a boy named Ocean and a girl named Agnes — saying at the time that her family is now “complete.” Her new babies join daughter Oonagh Paige, who was born on April 8, 2021.

In May 2016, Heard, then 30, filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, then 52, alleging that he was verbally and physically abusive throughout their relationship and accusing him of struggling with substance abuse, all of which Depp vehemently denied. Their divorce was finalized in January 2017.

After the trial ended, in which Heard was originally ordered to pay Depp $15 million, the actress largely retreated from the public eye, moving away from her home in California to Spain with her daughter, Oonagh, in search of privacy. Later on, after Heard dropped her appeal, she and Depp settled for $1 million.

“The trial was beyond stressful, and she wanted to start fresh,” a source told PEOPLE in April 2023.

Nearly three years after the conclusion of the highly publicized case, here’s a look at where Amber Heard is now.

Where is Amber Heard living now?

After living in the desert town of Yucca Valley, Calif., Heard sold her home for $1.1 million and moved to Europe with her daughter, Oonagh Paige. An insider told PEOPLE that Heard left the U.S. because she felt there was “too much chaos” stateside.

Heard “lost the case and was treated as such,” a film source told people of her retreat from the public eye. “She felt like a pariah.”

In search of privacy, Heard first moved to a rental on the island of Mallorca, Spain, where she went by the name Martha Jane Cannary — the real name of legendary gunslinger Calamity Jane — before planting her roots in Madrid.

A source told PEOPLE in November 2022 that Heard “is able to just be a mom there. She is focused on raising her daughter. She spends every day with her girl. They stroll around, visit parks and enjoy family time. Amber is a great mom.”

In a TikTok video posted in May 2023, Heard, who is fluent in Spanish, told local reporters that she “loves living” in the country and plans to stay there.

According to insiders, Heard was working on putting the trauma of the case behind her. “Amber was devastated before, during and after the trial. But she is better now,” a film source said.

Meanwhile, another source close to Heard told PEOPLE that the actress was focused on the future: “She is excited about working and filming again. She was exhausted and disappointed about the trial. She felt she was mistreated.”

The insider added: “This is all behind her now, though. She has new energy and is focused on things that she loves.”

Heard was spotted out for a jog in Madrid in early April 2024.

How much did Amber Heard pay Johnny Depp after the defamation trial?

Following the defamation trial’s conclusion on June 1, 2022, a jury in Fairfax, Va., awarded Depp $15 million in damages. Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the amount to $10.35 million, as the original amount exceeded Virginia’s maximum on punitive damages.

The jury also awarded $2 million to Heard for one of her three counterclaims against Depp. In the countersuit, Heard alleged that Depp’s attorney, Adam Waldman, defamed her by accusing her and her friends of concocting an “abuse hoax” against Depp.

After the jury’s ruling, Heard hired new attorneys and requested a mistrial and appeal. (Depp also appealed Heard’s counterclaim victory.)

In a November 2022 appellate court filing, Heard’s legal team questioned why the trial took place in Virginia instead of California — where both Heard, Depp and most of their witnesses primarily lived — and why Depp’s lawsuit was allowed to proceed at all following the U.K. libel ruling against him. (In 2020, Depp lost a libel suit against a U.K. tabloid that referred to the Pirates of the Caribbean star as a “wife beater.”)

Her attorneys also argued that the verdict would have a “chilling effect on other women who wish to speak about abuse involving powerful men” and that Heard’s claims in her op-ed were “non-actionable expressions of opinion.”

In December 2022, Heard announced that she was dropping her appeal and settling with Depp. While the initial jury ruling in the defamation trial called for more than $10 million in damages, Heard settled with Depp for $1 million, his attorneys confirmed to PEOPLE.

Depp pledged to donate the sum to five charities. Heard’s payment was issued in June 2023.

Has Amber Heard acted since the lawsuit?

Heard hasn’t been seen on-screen since she reprised her role as Queen Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which hit theaters in December 2023.

During the defamation trial, Heard said on the stand that she “fought really hard” to stay in the sequel, but that despite being a lead alongside Jason Momoa in the first Aquaman, she claimed her role was “pared down” in The Lost Kingdom because of the controversy surrounding Depp’s lawsuit.

Heard’s agent, Jessica Kovacevic, testified that she was told the shrinking of the role was due to a lack of chemistry with Momoa, but she believed it was due to the negative attention the lawsuit generated.

In July 2021, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom producer Peter Safran told Deadline that despite pressure from fans, the production team never had plans to remove Heard from the film entirely. “You gotta do what’s best for the movie,” he said. “We felt that if it’s [director] James Wan and Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Heard. That’s really what it was.”

What is Amber Heard working on now?

Heard confirmed to reporters in May 2023 that she has movies on the horizon, though she didn’t give any specifics.

In June, she promoted her first project following the trial at the Taormina Film Festival. Heard walked the red carpet in support of her independent film In the Fire, in which she starred as an American psychiatrist named Grace who traveled to Colombia in 1899 to treat a young boy believed to be possessed by the devil.

Heard told PEOPLE that In the Fire is “a beautiful movie about the almost supernatural effect and force of love. It is about the boundaries that love can cross and its creation, and really about the overwhelming power that love has.”

Heard filmed In the Fire after the U.K. libel trial and before the Virginia defamation trial, and her colleagues on the film said they admired her strength.

Director Conor Allyn told PEOPLE that Heard had “a bright future” ahead of her in film, while her costar Luca Calvani said: “Anyone that suffers that sort of ordeal and is able to overcome it with grace … you have to give credit for the incredible journey this woman has been through, and she can teach us all a couple of things as far as resilience and courage.”

After the festival, Heard posted photos from the event on Instagram and thanked her supporters.

That same month, the actress told Deadline that her ideal career would allow her to work on a variety of different projects, from blockbusters like Aquaman to indies like In the Fire.

“The best luck you can have as an actor is to be able to balance both,” she said. “There’s something cool about that, and I think success is an actor who is able to have both those things.”

How many kids does Amber Heard have now?

Heard became a mom for the first time on April 8, 2021, when her daughter, Oonagh Paige, was born. She announced the news three months later with a post on Instagram, sharing the first photo of her newborn and calling her “the beginning of the rest of my life.”

“Four years ago, I decided I wanted to have a child. I wanted to do it on my own terms,” Heard wrote at the time. “I now appreciate how radical it is for us as women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destinies in this way. I hope we arrive at a point in which it’s normalized to not want a ring in order to have a crib.”

She continued, “A part of me wants to uphold that my private life is none of anyone’s business. I also get that the nature of my job compels me to take control of this. My daughter was born on April 8, 2021. Her name is Oonagh Paige Heard.”

Her family grew bigger in 2025 when she welcomed twins, as her spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE in May.

“Amber is delighted to welcome the twins and complete her family,” said the statement from her rep. “Mama and babies are enjoying every minute. And Oonagh is happily running the show.”

Heard shared the first photo of her twins — a peek at their tiny feet, along with their big sister’s — on Instagram the same day, revealing that her babies are a boy and a girl named Ocean and Agnes.

“Mother’s Day 2025 will be one I’ll never forget. This year I am elated beyond words to celebrate the completion of the family I’ve strived to build for years,” she wrote. “Today I officially share the news that I welcomed twins into the Heard gang. My daughter Agnes and my son Ocean are keeping my hands (and my heart) full.”

She went on to say that she didn’t think she could “possibly burst with more joy” after meeting Oonagh, but now, she’s “bursting times three!!!”

“Becoming a mother by myself and on my own terms despite my own fertility challenges has been the most humbling experience of my life,” Heard continued. “I am eternally grateful that I was able to choose this responsibly and thoughtfully. To all the moms, wherever you are today and however you got here, my dream family and I are celebrating with you.”

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