Depp launched his action against The Sun after an article claimed that Harry Potter author JK Rowling was ‘uneasy’ over the actor’s role in Fantastic Beasts, given the domestic abuse accusations. Depp says it implied he was a “wife beater”.Warring exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard settled their divorce in 2016 but continue to battle it out on two fronts. Depp sued UK tabloid The Sun in 2018 for libel over a story that called the actor a “wife-beater”, claiming it cost him his starring role as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The actor is also suing Heard in the US in an $85 million defamation case after she wrote a Washington Post article about her experience as a victim of domestic violence, which didn’t name him, but, he says, clearly implies he was the perpetrator. Depp vehemently denies abusing Heard, claiming she was the “aggressor”.
The former couple’s two-week libel trial was due to begin in London this week but was adjourned due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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