Amber Heard and Johnny Depp Divorce news and Updates: Amber Heard Files New Lawsuit! And This TIme Its Doug Stanhope

Amber Heard has filed a new lawsuit. And this time it's not against Johnny Depp but one of his closest friends.

Heard has filed a defamation lawsuit against one of Depp's best friends, comic Doug Stanhope, in response to a guest article he had written for The Wrap, where Stanhope alleges that Depp is being "blackmailed" by Heard.

"Amber Heard filed a lawsuit today in the Arizona Superior Court for the County of Cochise. The defendant is Doug Stanhope, a resident of that county," Charles J. Harder, Heard's civil litigation counsel tells E!

"The Complaint alleges that Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements. Ms. Heard seeks the maximum possible jury award, and will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the lawsuit to Chrysalis, a domestic violence shelter in Arizona, in an effort to counter the setback made to women by the defendants' defamatory article and related wrongful acts."

According to the court documents, Heard's defence team claims that the allegations made in the article "are completely false and defamatory, and have caused and will continue to cause her tremendous harm."

The documents also states, "In response to Heard's truthful and necessary court filings, Defendants took action to publicly defame Ms. Heard by falsely accusing her of 'blackmail' and other criminal conduct, knowing that he had no factual basis to make the allegations...Defendants are engaged in a classic case of 'attacking the victim,' in an effort to discredit Heard, destroy her good name and reputation, and severely harm her hard-earned entertainment career, on top of the campaign of violence that Depp has inflicted upon her for years."

The Wrap declined to remove the article on Heard's legal camp request but added the note, "Amber Heard's attorney says the claim that Heard is blackmailing Johnny Depp is "unequivocally false."