12h 5min, may 28, 2021 y - COURTHOUSE NEWS Amber Heard Asks Virginia Judge to Adopt UK Court Findings of Depp Abuse

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Last summer, a court in the United Kingdom sifted through the rubble of a high-profile marriage gone bad and found that actor Johnny Depp was not defamed by a British newspaper’s article describing him as a “wife beater.” Now an attorney for Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, wants a Virginia judge to embrace those findings in a separate defamation case unfolding in the U.S.

During a hearing Friday in Fairfax County Circuit Court, attorneys for Heard asked Judge Penney Azcarate to allow them to amend the "Aquaman" star's grounds for defense in the defamation case brought by Depp.

Representing Heard, attorney Elaine Charlson Bredehoft of the firm Charlson Bredehoft Cohen pointed out that the question of whether Depp, 57, was violent and caused Heard, 35, to fear for her life has already been litigated in the U.K.. And Depp lost that case.

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