Johnny Depp has applied directly to Britain's court of appeal in an effort to overturn a recent high courtruling in a defamation trial related to the actor's troubled relationship with ex-wife Amber Heard.
Last month, a U.K. judge delivered the opinion in the case, which focused onan articleinThe Sunpublished in April 2018 that described Depp as a "wife beater." The judge ruled: "This claim is dismissed. ...
The claimant has not succeeded in his action for libel. Although he has proved the necessary elements of his cause of action in libel, the defendants have shown that what they published in the meaning which I have held the words to bear was substantially true." The same judgelater in November refused to allow the star to appeal the.
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