Amber Heard's attorney wants Johnny Depp's defamation case dropped

Attorneys for Amber Heard plan to appeal or overturn last month's ruling in a defamation lawsuit between the actress also her ex-husband Johnny Depp.

In a 43-page document filed in a Virginia court on Friday, the Aquaman actress team argued that the sentence was not helped by sufficient evidence.

In a claim, Heard's team said it was false that Depp, 59, claimed he lost his function in the Buccaneers of the Caribbean movie series because of a Washington Post article in which Heard wrote that he was harassed but did not name the culprit.

Heard's team argues that Depp "relies solely on the implied defamation theory and ignores any claim that Ms. Heard's statements are factually untrue." The Aquaman star team also claims that one of the jurors who died during the proceedings was not adequately vetted. The person summoned had a birth date of 1945, but the Hurd team claimed the person on duty was much younger.

The jury, identified in the filing as Juror 15, "appears to have been born after 1945. Publicly available information indicates that he appears to have been born in 1970," the document states. Last month, Depp won all three defamation suits in his lawsuit against 36-year-old Heard in response to his 2018 comments in which he described himself as a victim of domestic violence.

The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages but Heard only had to pay $10.35 million because Virginia law limited damages (the judge reduced the amount).

Additionally, Heard was awarded $2 million in damages for his counterclaim against Depp. Lawyers for the actress previously said Heard would "definitely" appeal the ruling.

Heard previously called the ruling a "setback" for the women and said now-Savannah Guthrie she was "afraid" it would mean more "silence" for survivors wishing to come forward. (Meanwhile, Depp claims he never touched Heard and accuses him of physically hurting him.) Amber Heard took part in a defamation lawsuit between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp last month.