Amber Heard, the estranged wife of actor Johnny Depp, has apparently filed suit against Bisbee-based comedian Doug Stanhope over a guest column Stanhope wrote last Sunday for The Wrap.
People magazine on Friday reported that Heard filed a defamation lawsuit against the comedian in Arizona; we couldn't independently verify the suit through online public records searches of Maricopa and Pima County state superior court websites.
Heard's lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said his client was seeking the "maximum possibly jury award" and plans to donate it to a domestic violence charity in Arizona, People reported.
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Heard, 30, on Monday — a day after Stanhope's column ran — adamantly denied Stanhope's accusations that she was claiming her husband of 15 months abused her in order to get more money out of a divorce. She filed for divorce last week claiming irreconcilable differences. The case is expected to go to court next month, according to several published reports online.
Stanhope could not be reached to comment on Friday.
Heard's divorce filing and domestic violence claims came days before Depp's film, Tim Burton's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," opened last weekend. The film bombed at the box office, grossing just over $28 million through the long Memorial Day weekend, according to New York Daily News.
Stanhope and Depp have been friends for the past several years. Depp wrote the forward of Stanhope's just released book "Digging Up Mother: A Love Story," that humorously chronicles Stanhope's mother's death at his Bisbee home.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com or 573-4642. On Twitter @Starburch
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