I'm so torn on this whole situation ugh
I know. It's disgusting either way 1) wife-beater, or 2) gold-digger trivializing domestic abuse and real women's issues.
As far as these crazy 50k/month alimonies go, unless you are doing something to earn those domestic reparations (like raising children and teaching them French poetry while breastfeeding, truly running a household (cleaning cooking, managing, et cetera) it only seems fair to adopt the Swedish format of divorce where it's 'no fault' and has little financial incentives, you just divide and leave. The American divorce laws were made in 60s when women really were fucked if they got divorced, since they dedicated their lives to running homes and children (no small feat) not marketable skills. the opportunity cost of homemaking is steep! Women have an incredible advantage in divorce courts, everyone knows this--they get just about everything.
If Johnny Depp had been beating her for '
a long time', and, keep in mind, they've only been married for
one year, why didn't she just get her terrible marriage annulled at the first instance (or second . . . or third)? Why didn't she run away after the first instance? It's one thing to stay in an abusive situation if you have children or you're in poverty but she is . . . not.
I am not trying to victim-blame but this is so, so fishy.
If it turns out that she is just trying to blackmail him it would be so damaging to the women's rights and equality movement. Men would have firm ground to start their own liberation movement against women.