14 h, mar 27, 2020 y - DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: AH loses bid to get $50M defamation suit thrown out as JD fights off claims he abused her

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Amber Heard lost her legal bid Friday to get a $50 million defamation suit brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp thrown out, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

The 33-year-old actress argued that statements made in a Washington Post op-ed detailing her experiences as a domestic violence survivor did not name Depp, 55, and were not defamatory.

But a judge rejected her motion to dismiss on the grounds that three of the four sentences the Pirates of the Caribbean star complained about could 'convey the alleged defamatory meaning that Mr Depp abused Ms Heard.'

The former couple met on the set of The Rum Diary, back in 2011, married four years later but split in May 2016 amid a slew of blood-curdling domestic violence allegations and tabloid headlines.

They looked to have put their feud behind them after agreeing to a $7 million divorce settlement in August of that year until Heard wrote an article in December 2018 about being a domestic abuse victim.