Johnny Depp and Amber Heard speak in a videotaped apology released by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. LONDON -- A British judge will rule next week on whether Johnny Depp was libelled by a tabloid newspaper that branded him a wife-beater -- an accusation his lawyer called a "reputation-destroying, career-ending" false allegation.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Depp sued News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the newspaper's executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that accused him of assaulting Heard. Heard, 34, testified as the main witness for the defence, saying Depp turned violent under the influence of alcohol and drugs. She alleged 14 separate incidents between 2013 and 2016 in which he hit, slapped and shoved her, pulled her hair and threw bottles at her "like grenades."
Go Johnny!