Johnny Depp has filed a 50 million dollars defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife and actor Amber Heard for accusing him of domestic violence in an article.
According to The Blast, the 55-year-old actorโs lawsuit is his response to Heardโs Washington Post op-ed that she wrote last year, in which she claimed to be a victim of abuse.
โMs. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse, she is a perpetrator,โ says the suit, while calling the allegations against Depp as โhoax.โ

Heard โpurported to write from the perspective of โa public figure representing domestic abuseโ and claimed that she โfelt the full force of our cultureโs wrath for women who speak outโ when she โspoke up against sexual violence,'โ Deppโs lawyers stated in the lawsuit.
Depp and Heardโs tumultuous marriage lasted from February 2015 to May 2016. According to Peopleโs timeline, Heard and Musk were first linked sometime in 2016, broke up in August 2017, and rekindled their romance for about a month starting in January 2018.
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Eric M. George, Heardโs attorney, responded to the lawsuit with a statement.
โThis frivolous action is just the latest of Johnny Deppโs repeated efforts to silence Amber Heard,โ said George.
โShe will not be silenced. Mr. Deppโs actions prove he is unable to accept the truth of his ongoing abusive behavior. But while he appears hell-bent on achieving self destruction, we will prevail in defeating this groundless lawsuit and ending the continued vile harassment of my client by Mr. Depp and his legal team.โ

In May 2016, Heard filed for a domestic violence restraining order against Depp after claiming he had abused her. The โPirates of the Caribbeanโ star denied the claim.
In August 2016, the two settled their divorce out of court, and Heard donated her $7 million settlement to charity.