Johnny Depp’s lawyers told the High Court that the actor is not a wife beater and that his ex-wife Amber Heard’s allegations of abuse are ‘complete lies’.The 57-year-old’s libel trial against The Sun and News Group Newspapers (NGN) began today, in relation to Depp being referred to as a ‘wife beater’ in a headline of The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton’s column in April 2018.
Depp strenuously denies the allegations of abuse made against him by Heard, 34; the Aquaman actress also denies the allegations that she was abusive towards Depp.In a written outline of the star’s case, his barrister David Sherborne said the article made ‘defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness’ against Mr Depp, accusing him of committing serious assaults.
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