Virginia judge denies Amber Heard’s attempt to toss Johnny Depp’s defamation case.

Virginia judge denies Amber Heard’s attempt to toss Johnny Depp’s defamation case.
A Virginia Circuit Court judge Tuesday denied Amber Heard’s third attempt to dismiss a defamation case brought against her by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
In so doing, Chief Circuit Court Judge Penney S.
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court's findings that Depp had abused Heard  on a dozen occasions, making the actress fear for her life.
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lawsuit, filed by Depp in 2018, named the News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and its editor, Dan Wootton, as defendants and focused on an article in which Depp was described as a "wife beater." Depp charged the publication with libel — but lost that case.
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Heard's legal team wanted the Virginia court to accept those findings, so that Depp, 58, would not be able to contend that he was defamed by a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard, 35, described herself as a survivor of domestic abuse.