Johnny Depp's libel case against Amber Heard: Jury to hear opening statements
foxnews.comA jury in Virginia is scheduled to hear opening statements Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Depp says Heard libeled him when she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." Depp is never mentioned by name, but he says the article implicates him nonetheless because it refers to past accusations Heard made when she sought a restraining order against him.
Depp denies the abuse allegations. A supporter holds a poster outside the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, before jury selection in the Johnny Depp defamation case against Amber Heard, in Fairfax, Virginia, April 11, 2022. (Reuters/Sarah Silbiger) A civil jury of seven members, plus four alternates, was selected Monday to hear the case in Fairfax County Circuit Court.
Heard's lawyers had sought to have the case tried in California, where the actors reside. But a judge ruled that Depp was within his rights to bring the case in Virginia because The Washington Post's computer servers for its online edition are located in the county.
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