A Judge Ruled That Johnny Depp Can Move Forward With His Defamation Case Against Amber Heard

August 18, 2021 / Posted by:

A judge has ruled that Johnny Depp can go ahead and exhume his already wormy career so he can bury it even deeper by moving ahead with his 2nd defamation lawsuit in as many years. Johnny’s last defamation case against The Sun resulted in photos of human feces and Johnny’s alleged tampon applicator coke straw being introduced into evidence. And he lost that case when London’s High Court ruled that The Sun was not wrong in calling him a “wife beater.” Now, according to People, Johnny can go ahead with his $50 million defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard herself. The judge was like, “knock yourself out, man” and Johnny’s like “thank you, I will! I’m going to beat my ex-wife real good this time. In court! In court I mean!

Johnny’s defamation case against Amber is based on a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. Johnny filed the suit in March of 2019, before his defamation suit against The Sun went to trial. People reports that after Johnny lost that case, Amber petitioned to have the case against her dismissed, but she’s been denied.

Johnny Depp has been allowed to move forward with his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard.

The actor, 58, is suing his ex-wife over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed where Heard, 35, wrote about surviving domestic violence. (Heard never named Depp in the op-ed, but she did accuse the actor of domestic violence amid their 2016 split, which he denied.)

In court documents obtained by PEOPLE on Tuesday, a Virginia judge granted the actor the right to pursue his lawsuit, denying Heard’s supplemental plea to dismiss the case after Depp lost his U.K. libel lawsuit against British tabloid The Sun.

Heard’s plea to dismiss Depp’s lawsuit, filed in Virginia in March 2019, came as the actress argued the U.K. judgment should hold sway on the proceedings in the U.S. since both lawsuits center on allegations of the actor as an abuser.

Ultimately, the judge ruled that “the statements made by the tabloid and Heard’s in her op-ed were ‘inherently different.’” So basically, here we go again. But this time, with more Elon Musk who was subpoenaed to be deposed in the case along with the ACLU, to whom Amber pledged a portion of her divorce settlement.

Earlier this month, Depp was granted permission to determine if Heard had donated part of her $7 million divorce settlement to the ACLU. Heard previously pledged to donate the settlement to the ACLU and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after their divorce was finalized in 2017.

In a July 22 hearing transcript provided to PEOPLE by Heard’s attorney Elaine Bredehoft said her client is still planning to donate one half of her total settlement to the ACLU and the other half to CHLA — and while “it is undetermined what those payment schedules will be,” Heard has already made “the first payment toward the pledges” and then some — specifically, “more than a million” each to the ACLU and CHLA.

“We produced the documents from the ACLU on how much she has. She has always said she fully intends to continue to give the full $7 million, but she can’t do it yet. She will do it when she can. But she has given a significant amount to both,” Bredehoft added of Heard, in part.

She’d still have the money too if DC wasn’t so cheap that Amber had to source her own Aquaman wigs off of Buy Nothing Facebook. Johnny earlier claimed that Amber’s testimony about the donation “tipped the scales from the very beginning” and was the reason he lost his suit against The Sun. Poor Johnny, he never can catch a break (from himself.) Earlier this week, in an interview, Johnny claimed that Hollywood was boycotting him simply because he was “one man, one actor in an unpleasant and messy situation,” and vowed to defend his reputation by “moving towards where I need to go to make all that…to bring things to light.” So yes, by all means. Let’s dig into that turd a little deeper. At the very least it’ll be great fodder for a thriller I’m working on called What The Housekeeper Saw. Tim Burton to direct.

Pic: Wenn.com

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