Johnny Depp Can’t Appeal Libel Case Against The Sun, Judge Rules
The Times, the actor must pay £628,000 (US$840,452.400) in legal costs to the British tabloidfor his failed libel action against the paper.Depp had sued The Sun for libel over an August 2018 story that called the star a “wife-beater” in his relationship with now ex-wife Amber Heard. Earlier this month, Justice Andrew Nicol said that News Group Newspapers and Sun executive editor Dan Wootton had proved that the tabloid’s story was “substantially true.” His ruling concluded, “I have found that the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms.