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Entertainment & Sports

Mar. 8, 2019

Johnny Depp's suit against lawyer hopelessly mired in discovery

Johnny Depp's suit against lawyer hopelessly mired in discovery
Johnny Depp and now-ex wife Amber Heard on the red carpet at a 2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art gala in New York.

LOS ANGELES -- Johnny Depp's come to regret agreeing to the terms of his divorce settlement with actress Amber Heard, his former personal attorneys say, and he's laying the blame on them.

A trial for the lawsuit, in which the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star has accused his former lawyer Jacob Bloom of defrauding him of $30 million, was scheduled to begin next month. But at a hearing Thursday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge