14h 33min, jun 3, 2016 y - Amber Heard Sues Comic Doug Stanhope How Dare You Say I Blackmailed Johnny

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FROM E! NEWS:
A new lawsuit has been filed in relation to Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's legal battle, but this time, it's targeting one of his closest friends.

E! News confirms that the actress has filed a defamation lawsuit against one of Depp's best friends, comic Doug Stanhope, in response to a guest article he had written for The Wrap, where Stanhope comments on the ongoing domestic abuse claims being made the actress, and alleges that Depp is being "blackmailed" by Heard.

"Amber Heard filed a lawsuit today in the Arizona Superior Court for the County of Cochise. The defendant is Doug Stanhope, a resident of that county," Charles J. Harder, Heard's civil litigation counsel tells E! News in a statement.

"The Complaint alleges that Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements. Ms. Heard seeks the maximum possible jury award, and will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the lawsuit to Chrysalis, a domestic violence shelter in Arizona, in an effort to counter the setback made to women by the defendants' defamatory article and related wrongful acts."

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