A British court ruled Monday against Johnny Depp in his libel case against the owner of the Sun tabloid newspaper, which labelled him a "wife beater." In a ruling, Justice Andrew Nicol said Depp has "not succeeded in his action for libel." Depp sued News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the newspaper's executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that accused him of assaulting his wife, Amber Heard. Depp's suit against Heard pendingDepp is also suing Heard for $50 million US in Virginia over a Washington Post story about domestic violence. "The reputations of both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are tarnished irrevocably," Mark Stephens, a media lawyer at the law firm Howard Kennedy, said ahead of the verdict.

Source: CBC News November 02, 2020 09:56 UTC