Johnny Depp Is Dating Joelle Rich, His Attorney From Previous U.K. Libel Case
Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard have been in a years-long legal battle and have faced each other in court twice. Amber wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about being allegedly abused by someone, and it was very clear it was Johnny even though she didn't use his name.
Amber claimed that her ex-husband Johnny Depp physically abused her and the two accused each other of drug use throughout the trials. Johnny sued The Sun for libel because the newspaper called him a "wife-beater," but he lost his case in November 2020. The court upheld the claims as "substantially true," and he even lost his appeal in March 2021. But he had a couple strokes of good luck since then. He won his case in Virginia and was awarded $15 million in compensatory damages and punitive damages. Plus, he started dating one of his attorneys from the U.K. case: Joelle Rich.