It's been confirmed that Amber Heard has filed a defamation suit against comedian Doug Stanhope for his recent comments concerning the abuse allegations by her against Johnny Depp.
In an article for The Wrap, Stanhope alleged that Amber Heard was blackmailing Johnny Depp and was engaged in other criminal behaviour. Stanhope's article was shared widely on social media and across the Internet, as Stanhope is a close personal friend of Depp.
Heard's suit alleges that Stanhope "wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements." Heard's legal team has said that they are seeking the maximum possible jury award, and that Heard "will donate 100% of the proceeds from the lawsuit to Chrysalis, a domestic violence shelter in Arizona, in an effort to counter the setback made to women by the defendants’ defamatory article and related wrongful acts.”
The filing also included Johnny Depp and twenty other, unnamed defendants. The filing, lodged in Arizona Superior Court, states that "Depp and his representatives further ‘went on the offensive’ during the publicity tour, repeatedly making false public allegations about Heard to the press, accusing her of being manipulative, a blackmailer, and blaming her for the breakup of the marriage — as if Depp’s alcoholism, drug addiction, and campaign of violence against his wife played no part."
Heard has alleged that Depp was repeatedly violent towards her and has been granted a restraining order against him.
Via Variety