The British Court of Appeal on Thursday refused to allow the processing of an appeal filed by the American actor Johnny Depp against a 2020 decision accusing him of abusing his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Judge Nicholas Underhill said Depp’s “additional evidence” to justify the appeal had not been accepted and said he had “no prospect of success” and therefore had no reason to continue.
At a hearing last week, his lawyer, Andrew Caldecott, described as “new evidence” of Heard’s alleged presumption that, according to his data, he had not donated to charities in the United States, as he had promised. $ 7 million in earnings from her interpreter divorce in 2016.
Depp wanted to appeal the Supreme Court’s November 2 ruling, which dismissed his libel lawsuit against The Sun, which accused him in a 2018 article of being an “aggressor husband” and detailed various allegations. incidental violence against actress Amber Heard, 34.
In that decision, the court, which heard testimony from both sides in a lawsuit that sparked unrest in the United Kingdom, said the allegations against Depp, 57, were “substantially true” in the newspaper and considered that 12 of the 14 attacks attributed to him “occurred”.
Following this decision, the film production company Warner Bros. removed the actor from the cast of the third installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, written and produced by JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, to be released in 2022. .