The high-profile trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp is now in its sixth and final week.
It revolves around the defamation lawsuit the Pirates of the Caribbean star filed against his ex-wife over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post, in which she claimed that she had suffered domestic abuse.
On Tuesday, Depp’s legal team asked for Circuit Court Judge Penney Azcarate to dismiss the Aquaman star’s countersuit of $100 million that was filed after his lawyer Adam Waldman claimed in an interview with Daily Mail that Heard’s allegations were a ‘hoax.’
Heard’s legal defended their countersuit claims and Azcarate denied the bid to dismiss the countersuit, saying: “It is not my role to measure the veracity or weight of the evidence.”
The judge previously denied Heard’s bid to dismiss Depp’s case, saying that there was enough evidence of actual malice for the jury to give its judgement.
“As to actual malice, Mr. Waldman made the counterclaim statements after he met with his client,” said the judge.
“In addition, there’s evidence (Depp) was with Mr. Waldman at a meeting in February, 2020 with the Daily Mail Online,” the judge continued.
It was in August 2020 when Heard sued the Pirates of the Caribbean star – more than a year after Depp filed his $50 million defamation lawsuit against her.
The president of DC Comics based film productions for Warner Brothers, Walter Hamada, previously testified in a video deposition on Heard’s compensation and role in the Aquaman films.
The actress has claimed the movie production company significantly reduced her role in the second movie of Aquaman because of her legal battle with her ex-husband.
But Hamada said that the idea of reducing Heard’s appearance in the second movie was already considered early on in the script development, adding they considered replacing Heard as she and Momoa lacked chemistry.
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