Actor Johnny Depp has filed documents at the Fairfax Country, Virginia, court to delay the defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, so that he can proceed with filming for his role in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3” in London.Depp sued Heard in March, 2019, over an op-ed piece she wrote for the Washington Post titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath.
That has to change” where he is not named.
Under Virginia law, where the Post is printed, plaintiffs can sue for defamation by inference.The court’s current dates for the trial are Jan.
11 through Jan.
28, 2021.
However, Warner Bros.
is planning to commence principal photography for “Fantastic Beasts 3” from October in London and will finish only by the end of February 2021.
Depp has requested the court to delay the hearing to a period between March and June, 2021.The film
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