Ｊ・デップさん、ＤＶ敗訴は「現実離れ」　上訴の意向　ファンタビは降板

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】米俳優ジョニー・デップさん（57）は6日、元妻アンバー・ハードさんに暴力を振るっていたことを英裁判所が認める判決を下したことを受け、上訴する考えを明らかにした。また、映画「ファンタスティック・ビースト」シリーズから降板することも発表した。（写真は米俳優ジョニー・デップさん）
　映画「パイレーツ・オブ・カリビアン」シリーズ主演のデップさんは、６日付で「ロンドンから」と表記されたインスタグラムの投稿で、「英国の裁判所の現実離れした判決によって、真実を語るための闘いが変わることはない。私は上訴する考えを固めている」と表明した。
　デップさんは２日、自身を「ワイフビーター（妻虐待者）」と報じた英大衆紙サンを相手取って起こした名誉毀損（きそん）訴訟で敗訴。３週間にわたった訴訟では、デップさんとハードさんの間で争いが絶えなかったことが明らかにされ、アンドルー・ニコル判事は、サン紙の記事は「おおむね真実」であることが証明されたとし、デップさんの訴えを棄却した。
　デップさんは今回、米映画大手ワーナー・ブラザースの要請を受けて映画「ハリー・ポッター」のスピンオフ作品「ファンタスティック・ビースト」シリーズのゲラート・グリンデルバルド役から降板することに同意したと発表。「要請を尊重し、同意した」としている。
　ワーナー・ブラザースもデップさんの降板について認め、現在製作中の『ファンタスティック・ビースト３（仮題）』について、「ゲラート・グリンデルバルドの配役を変える。映画は２０２２年夏に全世界で公開予定だ」と発表した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/11/09-12:16）

Hollywood star Johnny Depp on Friday confirmed he will appeal against a UK court ruling that upheld claims he was violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal, he wrote on Instagram in a post dated from London.
On Monday, the 57-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor lost a libel lawsuit against the publishers of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which had called him a wife beater.
Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed Depp's claim after three weeks of revelations about the couple's stormy relationship, saying the article had been proven to be substantially true.
Twelve of the 14 alleged incidents which publishers News Group Newspapers maintained were true met the civil burden of proof, the balance of probability, he added.
Depp said in a typewritten and signed statement: My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false.
My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time.
The high-profile case at the High Court in London exposed Depp's battles with drink and drugs as well as details of his two-year marriage to Heard, 34, an actress and a model.
The actor also announced that he had agreed to resign from his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the Harry Potter franchise spin-off Fantastic Beats at the request of Warner Bros.
I have respected and agreed to that request, he said. The US film studio confirmed that Depp would be stepping down from the film.
Johnny Depp will depart the Fantastic Beasts franchise. We thank Johnny for his work on the films to date, the studio said in a statement.
Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently in production, and the role of Gellert Grindelwald will be recast. The film will debut in theatres worldwide in the summer of 2022, it added.
The contested article in The Sun had questioned wither Harry Potter author JK Rowling could be genuinely happy Depp had been cast in the Fantastic Beasts films given his reputation as a wife-beater.
Depp is also suing Heard in a separate case in the United States for an article she wrote in the Washington Post, which he said implied he was violent towards her.