Johnny Depp's Libel Case: Winona Ryder, Vanessa Paradis No Longer Appearing as Witnesses
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hollywoodreporter.comJohnny Depp’s former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder will no longer be appearing as witnesses in the star’s libel suit against a British tabloid newspaper that accused him of assaulting ex-wife Amber Heard, a lawyer said Thursday.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater.” He strongly denies abusing Heard.
Paradis and Ryder had been scheduled to testify as witnesses on Depp’s behalf in the U.K. High Court case. Depp’s lawyer, David Sherborne, said Thursday that he no longer needed to call them because The Sun does not contest Depp’s claim that he never hit them.
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