Amber Heard wants to face a new defamation lawsuit against her ex-husband Johnny Depp. He lost the bombshell court battle was stacked against him.
The 36-year-old “Aquaman” actress filed an appeal earlier this month, seeking to have therapy records in which she reported abuse released. led to an unfair trial. The evidence was dismissed as hearsay by Virginia’s Fairfax County District Judge Penny Azcarate.
“The court improperly prevented the jury from considering several separate instances in which Heard reported Depp’s abuse to a medical professional,” Heard’s attorneys wrote. In a 68-page document The date is November 23.
“If not overturned, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic violence to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other victims of domestic abuse to prove allegations of abuse and may deter them from coming forward,” he wrote. they are
Depp, 59, A verdict of $10.35 million was awarded in June after Heard’s Washington Post called her allegations of domestic violence defamatory.
So are Heard’s lawyers argued during the trial It was supposed to take place in California, where the couple once lived together — and not in Virginia, where the Washington Post has its servers.
Virginia was “an entirely inconvenient forum that had nothing to do with Depp or his allegations,” the filing said.
Her lawyers pointed to a 2020 UK ruling in favor of Britain’s The Sun, which sued Depp for calling her his wife, saying “the case should never have gone to trial because another court concluded that Depp had repeatedly abused her.” hitter
The Pirates of the Caribbean star has already filed an appeal in the case, claiming that Heard’s defamation was a “mistake”.
“The jury’s unanimous verdict on all three defamatory statements in his complaint vindicates Mr. Depp in full and restores his reputation,” the filing states.
A panel of judges will rule on both claims, and each side will have the chance to appeal again.