Johnny Depp has lost his libel case. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor lost in his case against News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun, and executive editor Dan Wootton after he was called a “wife beater” in a 2018 article regarding ex Amber Heard‘s allegations, Variety reported Monday (November 2).
Judge Andrew Nicol concluded in his ruling: “The claimant [Depp] has not succeeded in his action for libel.
Although he has proved the necessary elements of his cause of action in libel, the defendants have shown that what they published in the meaning which I have held the words to bear was substantially true.” “I have reached these conclusions having examined in detail the 14 incidents on which the defendants rely as well as the
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