New York Post

LAST LAUGH

Amber has the jollies as Johnny’s movie tanks

- By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM Additional reporting by David K. Li and Laura Italiano

Amber Heard couldn’t be happier outside her lawyers’ office, as glum soon-to-be-ex Johnny Depp yesterday looks like he just got the word: His “Alice” flick bombed.

Amber Heard looked like she was laughing all the way to the bank after visiting divorce lawyers this weekend — as her soon-to-be ex, Johnny Depp, took a hit at the box office.

“Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the big-budget spectacle starring Depp as the Mad Hatter, bombed over the Memorial Day weekend, earning just $28.1 million through Sunday and getting clobbered by “X-Men: Apocalypse,” which raked in $65 million.

Heard, meanwhile, may be on the brink of a financial windfall.

The 30-year-old actress stands to step away from her 15month marriage to Depp, 52, with at least $20 million, legal experts told The Post.

So it’s no wonder Heard was gleeful when she was spotted — without her wedding or engagement rings — laughing as she left a four-hour meeting at her lawyers’ Los Angeles offices at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday with her pal Raquel Pennington.

The faintest of bruises was still visible on Heard’s right cheek, a week after she claimed Depp hurled her iPhone at her face in their LA penthouse.

Pennington is Heard’s acrossthe-hall neighbor there, and an important witness to the alleged incident.

Saturday’s giggle fest was in stark contrast to Heard’s somber court appearance Friday, when she broke down in tears after a California judge granted her a temporary restrainin­g order against Depp.

Heard went public — insisting in court papers that Depp was violent, drunk, high and paranoid — after his lawyers rejected her demands for a quick divorce payday.

She was hoping to score $50,000 a month in spousal support, $125,000 for her legal fees, their LA penthouse, his Range Rover and sole custody of their Yorkshire terriers.

For now, a judge has granted her only temporary possession of the swanky pad.

The pair did not have a prenup, so Heard benefits from California law, which guarantees her a minimum of one half of however much their combined worth increased during their 15 months together.

Forbes has listed Depp as the 12th-richest actor of 2015, with a net worth of $400 million. His “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise alone has earned a reported $1 billion.

During his marriage to Heard, Depp got an estimated $61 million to appear in the $170 million “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and $40 million to star in “Black Mass,” in which he won raves playing Boston gangster Whitey Bulger.

But if Depp spent like a Mad Hatter, that counts against the combined income.

“If he made $30 million and he spent $30 million, you’re SOL,” Manhattan-based divorce lawyer Suzanne Bracker said.

Still, Heard stands to get at least $20 million, if not more, Bracker estimated.

That includes at least $10 million from his income alone and $10 million from the properties Depp owns, including his private Caribbean Island and a lavish home in France.

Heard, by contrast, “only” earned “only”$383,000 in 2015, clearing just $51,000 after such expenses as $18,876 in “business meals,” she says in papers.

Another prominent divorce attorney said Heard could extract more money out of her estranged hubby if his team wants to settle quickly.

“It’s highly unlikely she’ll make much, based on the brevity of the marriage,” Laurence Greenberg said.

“However, the allegation­s of domestic abuse might encour- age a quick and possibly lucrative settlement.”

Meanwhile, Team Depp mobilized. The actor’s ex-partner of 14 years, Frenchwoma­n Vanessa Paradis, whom Depp dumped for Heard, released a letter Sunday about how doting he was.

“He is a sensitive, loving and loved person, and I believe with all my heart that these recent allegation­s being made are outrageous,” Paradis, 43, wrote in a handwritte­n letter obtained by TMZ.

Their teen daughter, Lily-Rose, posted a photo on Instagram of herself as an infant with her dad.

“My dad is the sweetest most loving person I know, he’s been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same,” she wrote.

Depp has not personally addressed Heard’s allegation­s, denying them through his lawyers.

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THAT’SHATS A GOOD ONE: Actress Amber Heard (near left) gets a case of the giggles with her friend Raquel Pennington in Los Angeles after wrapping up a four-hour meeting with her divorce attorneys — just a day after her tearful court appearance.
 ?? X17online.com WireImage ?? Johnny Depp’s ex-loveVaness­a Paradis (above) defended the star against the tearful allegation­s of Amber Heard (left) on Sunday, while the actor was seen out in Frankfurt, Germany, on tour with his rock band, Hollywood Vampires (right). THE EX FACTOR:
X17online.com WireImage Johnny Depp’s ex-loveVaness­a Paradis (above) defended the star against the tearful allegation­s of Amber Heard (left) on Sunday, while the actor was seen out in Frankfurt, Germany, on tour with his rock band, Hollywood Vampires (right). THE EX FACTOR:

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