Johnny Depp and his lawyer deployed Twitter trolls and Russian bots to attack Amber Heard, his former wife, in a smear campaign, she says in a lawsuit. Ms Heard said she suffered attacks from automated online accounts that were meant to destroy her career.
The actor and his representatives controlled “social media accounts created specifically for the purpose of targeting Ms Heard”, her filing said. The accounts were said to be “designed to damage Ms Heard and her livelihood without being directly traceable to Mr Depp”. The suit said that Adam Waldman, his lawyer, was “publicly associated with Russian individuals with the capability to organise such attacks”.
Ms Heard made the claims in response to a defamation suit Mr Depp filed in Virginia,
