Depp has sued his ex-wife for an op-ed she wrote about being a domestic abuse victim. She counter-sued.
The sequel to Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard's bitter legal battle is coming to Virginia. After losing the first round - a libel trial set in the UK - Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for $50m over an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. And Heard is suing back, with a $100m counterclaim against Depp.
She said her then-husband - 23 years her senior - had "violently" attacked her and thrown a mobile phone at her face with "extreme force". There were other alleged instances of harassment as well - "excessive emotional, verbal and physical abuse", she wrote in court filings, "angry, hostile, humiliating and threatening assaults".
"I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out," she wrote. "I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse."But according to Depp's complaint, these three sentences amount to defamation anyway, derailing his career and "incalculably" damaging his reputation.
"If someone, like Amber Heard, writes something about domestic violence and spousal abuse - those are clearly matters of public interest," Mr Baker said. "She has some form of immunity for saying those things."In 2018, Amber Heard described feeling "culture's wrath" as a victim of domestic abuse But while this legal battle was between Depp and The Sun, the three-week trial in London looked more like a feud between former spouses.
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