Jordan Moreau A Virginia judge allowed Johnny Depp to proceed with his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, after her plea to dismiss the suit after Depp lost his U.K.
libel case was denied.Depp is suing Heard, his ex-wife, after she wrote a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse.
She didn’t name Depp in the op-ed, but she accused him of domestic violence after their 2016 divorce.In November 2020, Depp lost a U.K.
libel case against the publisher of The Sun, a U.K. tabloid that alleged he was a “wife beater” in a 2018 article. The judge ruled that the words were “substantially true.”Heard requested that Depp’s defamation suit against her be dismissed after the U.K.
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