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On Monday, the 57-year-old ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor lost a defamation lawsuit against the editors of British tabloid ‘The Sun’, who had branded him a ‘wife beater’.
FILE: US actor Johnny Depp arrives to attend the sixth day of his defamation trial against News Group Newspapers at London High Court on July 14, 2020. Image: AFP
LONDON (AP) – Hollywood star Johnny Depp confirmed on Friday that he will appeal against a UK court ruling that upheld claims that he was violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.
“The surreal court judgment in the UK will not change my fight, to tell the truth, and I confirm that I plan to appeal,” he wrote on Instagram in a postscript from London.
On Monday, the 57-year-old pirates of the Caribbean The actor lost a libel lawsuit against the editors of the British tabloid newspaper Sun, who had called him a “wife beater.”
Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed Depp’s claim after three weeks of revelations about the couple’s stormy relationship, saying the article had been shown to be “substantially true.”
Twelve of the 14 alleged incidents that News Group Newspapers publishers held to be true met the civil burden of proof, the balance of probability, it added.
Depp said in a signed and typed statement: “My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the accusations against me are false.”
“My life and my career will not be defined at this time.”
The high-profile case in London High Court laid out Depp’s battles with drinking and drugs, as well as details of his two-year marriage to Heard, a 34-year-old actress and model.
The actor also announced that he had agreed to resign his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the Harry Potter franchise spin-off _Fantastic Beasts _ at the request of Warner Bros.
“I have respected and accepted that request,” he said. The American film studio confirmed that Depp would be leaving the film.
“Johnny Depp will be leaving the Fantastic Beasts franchise. We thank Johnny for his work on the films to date,” the studio said in a statement.
“Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently in production, and the role of Gellert Grindelwald will be recast. The film will debut in theaters around the world in the summer of 2022.”
The contested article in Sun He had wondered if Harry Potter author JK Rowling could be “really happy.” Depp had been chosen to Fantastic Animals movies given his reputation as a wife beater.
Depp is also suing Heard in a separate case in the United States for an article he wrote in the Washington Post, what he said implied that he was violent towards her.
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