12h 10min, mar 4, 2019 y - NBC NEWS Johnny Depp sues ex-wife Amber Heard for $50M for allegedly defaming him

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Johnny Depp has filed a $50 million lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard that claims she is defaming him with false allegations of abuse in a December 2018 opinion piece she wrote for The Washington Post.
Heard did not name Depp in the op-ed that focused on the risks to women in speaking up about domestic abuse and sexual violence. She writes that she was exposed to abuse when she was "very young" and was "harassed and sexually assaulted by the time" she was of college age.

But the lawsuit filed Friday in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, alleges that although the piece did not name Depp, it was implicitly about him.

“The op-ed depended on the central premise that Ms. Heard was a domestic abuse victim and that Mr. Depp perpetrated domestic violence against her,” the lawsuit says.
The complaint states that the op-ed's "clear implication that" Depp is a domestic abuser "is categorically and demonstrably false."

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US VA Court Documents:
- Johnny Depp Exhibit 447