“Since winning his defamation trial against Amber Heard, his ex-wife who accused him of abuse, Johnny Depp has been confidently crawling his way back into the public eye.

“The latest development in his comeback tour are reports that he’s dating Joelle Rich, a London-based attorney who defended him in a similar libel case in the U.K.

“Depp’s U.K. lawsuit against a British newspaper group after one of its publications called him a “wife beater” saw a lot of the same evidence as the U.S. trial but reached the opposite verdict. A judge dismissed it in July 2020, determining that Depp put Heard in “fear for her life.””

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