Johnny Depp wins right to sue ex Amber Heard in £36m libel case after dismissal plea
dailystar.co.ukshowbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterJohnny Depp has won the right to move forward with his libel suit against Amber Heard despite her request to the judge to get the case thrown out.The lawsuit relates to an opinion piece penned by Heard which featured in the Washington Post in 2018 with the actress talking about surviving domestic abuse, though Depp was not named in the piece.In 2019 Depp filed a libel suit against his ex-wife and accused her of creating a "hoax" of being a domestic abuse survivor.Following Depp's defamation lawsuit against The Sun, which saw the publication label him a "wife beater", which the judge said was "substantially true", Heard submitted a plea to have the libel suit against.
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