Hollywood actor, Johnny Depp’s appeal to revoke a court ruling of a report of domestic assault on his ex-wife Amber Heard, has been denied.
The actor’s appeal for U.K. libel case against The Sun publisher, News Group Newspapers, after he stated that the report of him being called a ‘wife beater’ in the headline is false, has been thrown out.
The Judge, Justice Nicol, ruled that the label was “substantially true” concerning the alleged assault on Heard. This was after a three-week trial in 2020.
Depp appealed to the court to grant permission to challenge the ruling, and have his findings overturned and a retrial ordered.
Another reason made by Depp’s was on evidence that his ex-wife, Heard, had not yet given away most of the $7m (£5.1m) she received in her divorce settlement, which according to her, was supposed to be for charity.
Nevertheless, the court on Thursday, March 25, 2021, shunned Depp’s permission to appeal.
The Judge said, “We do not accept that there is any ground for believing that the judge may have been influenced by any such general perception as Mr Caldecott relies on.
“In the first place, he does not refer to her charitable donation at all in the context of his central findings.
“On the contrary, he only mentions it in a very particular context … and after he had already reached his conclusions in relation to the 14 incidents.
“We refuse Mr Depp’s application to admit further evidence in support of his proposed appeal and we conclude that the appeal has no real prospect of success and that there is no other compelling reason for it to be heard. We accordingly refuse permission to appeal.”
Recall that in May 2016, Heard had been to the court to secure a restraining order of Depp. She claimed Depp had attacked her violently in a rage and had thrown her mobile phone on her face.
The duo got married in 2015 but got seperated the year after.
The Sun had referred the actor as a ‘wife beater’ in April 2018.
