Depp sued Amber in 2019 after she wrote a 2018 article about home abuse, which his authorized staff argued implied he was an abuser, although she didn’t title him. (In 2020, he misplaced a separate libel case within the UK in opposition to tabloid The Solar, which had referred to as him a “spouse beater.”) Depp denied Amber’s allegations, and in 2022, a jury dominated that Amber had defamed him, ordering her to pay $15 million in damages.
Rihanna confronted backlash for casting Depp within the present, with some folks calling her “out of contact.”
