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In the legal dispute with the tabloid "The Sun", Hollywood star Johnny Depp accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of making implausible and false statements.
Depp's lawyer argued in the London Court of Appeal on Thursday that the case should be reopened in the face of "fresh evidence".
Depp had sued the Sun publisher over an article alleging that he had physically abused his ex-wife.
However, the High Court in London had dismissed the lawsuit in early November: the majority of the allegations mentioned in the newspaper had proven to be true, the judges found in their verdict.
After the verdict, Depp criticized that the court relied solely on the statements of his ex-wife and ignored counter-evidence from the police and other witnesses.
Depp's defense attorney accused Heard of serious allegations against her ex-husband at the hearing on Thursday.
The 34-year-old Heard had not honored her announcement that she would donate the funds received from her multi-million dollar divorce from Depp to a children's hospital and a civil rights organization.
The hospital said in a letter that it had not received any payments from her.
The promise was a "calculated and manipulative lie in order to achieve a positive effect," said Depp's lawyer.
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A lawyer for the publisher denied the allegations.
The documents submitted do not prove that Heard lied.
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The London High Court had rejected the appeal of Johnny Depp, 57, which had already been raised in the autumn - now the Court of Appeal has to deal with the case.
The court announced that it would announce its decision at a later date.
The celebrity trial had attracted worldwide attention in the past year.
For weeks, Depp (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) and his ex-wife (“Zombieland”), who was 23 years his junior, painted the picture of a deeply destructive relationship.