Amber has filed a defamation lawsuit against Doug in response to his allegation that she threatened to spread lies about her husband of 15 months.
- Jun 4, 2016
AceShowbiz - Amber Heard is suing comic Doug Stanhope for defamation. Amber's suit is a response to Doug's allegation in a guest article he wrote for TheWrap, saying that she "blackmailed" her husband Johnny Depp.
Amber's civil litigation counsel Charles J. Harder says in a statement, "Amber Heard filed a lawsuit today in the Arizona Superior Court for the County of Cochise. The defendant is Doug Stanhope, a resident of that county. The Complaint alleges that Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements."
He adds, "Ms. Heard seeks the maximum possible jury award, and will donate 100 percent 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 lawsuit also details a "campaign of violence" that Johnny has inflicted upon Amber over the years. "Depp has hit and kicked Heard on numerous occasions, has thrown objects at her, at one point nearly suffocated her to the point where she feared for her life," the complaint states, "Heard repeatedly returned to Depp, despite his verbal and physical mistreatment of her, hoping optimistically that the man she married would change his behavior. Each time Heard returned, however, within months, the cycle of substance abuse and violence repeated."
Reps for Doug and Johnny haven't commented on the defamation lawsuit yet.
