Johnny Depp loses the case against the Sun that had called him a "female thug"
Judge Andrew Nicol, of the High Court of London, today rejected the defamation complaint filed by the Hollywood star against the tabloid, which in 2018 had branded him as a marital "thug" on the basis of the accusations made by his ex-wife. actress and former model Amber Heard
LONDON. Yes, it was all true: Johnny Depp "beat his wife". This is the ruling of the London High Court in the civil libel trial requested by the American actor against the British tabloid The Sun (together with his editorial group News Group Newspapers), which in 2018 had defined him as a "wife beater" in the title of a article, or "beating his wife", then Amber Heard, the 34-year-old Texan actress. What the newspaper wrote "was essentially true," Judge Andrew Nicol said in the court of the British capital. According to the 57-year-old famous American actor, however, that title of the Sun was incorrect and did not correspond to reality. The plaintiff's lawyers have announced they will appeal.
The case has generated a stir and scandal, in London and around the world, in recent months. In addition to the very serious charges against the actor that the High Court of London has substantially confirmed, during the hearings Depp and Heard have in fact revealed to the world the shocking, private and sometimes sordid details of their relationship, devastating their reputations. A family and personal drama of two Hollywood stars, for what was the libel trial of the year. Depp came out as a serial thug, taking drugs of all sorts in a broken marriage. Heard accused Depp of attacking her several times, also showing photos of bruises and bruises on her face, especially when she drank and took drugs, becoming a "monster": the actress even shared the image of her ex-husband's table. morning, between alcoholic cocktails and cocaine strips. "I was afraid of dying," Heard confessed.
According to Depp, it was Heard who actually beat him, so much so that he once "put out a cigarette on my cheek." "His accusations are absurd and crazy!", He explained, "Amber broke my finger with the bottle of vodka!", While Heard replied that his reaction was triggered by "three days in Johnny's hostage". Some transcripts of arguments between the two, who recorded each other to accuse each other, were also published. Heard would do it so that Depp "knew what he said and did when he was drunk or on drugs", he because "he was humiliated by her" as when "Amber defecated in our bed". In a conversation, the actress at one point yells at Depp: "I hit you but I didn't knock you out, you're a fucking baby!".
The legal battle between the two exes began immediately after the relationship ended in May 2016 when the actress had already accused her husband of violence and obtained 7 million dollars then donated to charity. The Depp-Heard case is not over, however: because the actor of Donnie Brasco, Pirates of the Caribbean, Blow and The Chocolate Factory has also sued Heard in the United States, in another libel suit: in this case, Depp asks to his ex-wife $ 50 million in compensation for an editorial by the latter in the Washington Post in which she recounted the violence suffered. It is possible that today's verdict also influences the American trial.
"Victims of domestic violence must never be silenced", commented the tabloid Sun after the ruling, "we thank the judges of London and Amber Heard for her courageous testimony in court".
