Johnny Depp Loses UK Libel Case Against the Publisher of The Sun

The actor had sued the British newspaper’s publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton, over an article in 2018 which described Depp as a “wife beater” and claimed there was “overwhelming evidence” he had attacked his ex-wife Amber Heard. The judge, Mr Justice Nicol, ruled that the paper’s allegations were “substantially true.”