The celebrity trial of the year, even of the decade? The legal battle for defamation between the actor of Pirates of the Caribbean Johnny Depp at the actressAquaman Amber Heard for three weeks continues to experience new twists, to the point of enthralling all of America. Cornered since the start of the trial, Amber Heard’s team tried a new gamble, but in vain.
look back
Brief summary. Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife in 2020 for defamation (he claims for his part that he was the victim of domestic violence and is asking for 50 million damages) while she accuses him of domestic violence and to have ruined her career (she asks for double, 100 million and claims to have been the victim of “constant physical and sexual violence “). A new trial therefore began on April 11 and is due to last until the end of May.
Since the start of this new trial, the witnesses accumulate at the bar. Especially on the side of the actor’s camp: big sister, doctor, bodyguard, security guard, doorman of the building… On the side of the young actress, her ex-companion Elon Musk refused to appear under the request of his lawyers.
For the moment, the star ofAquaman seems to be on the ropes: compromising recordings, imaginary make-up palette, testimony from the bodyguard… A hired psychologist by Johnny Depp’s lawyers even testified at trial that she suffered from personality disorders. A series of setbacks that forced the actress’s defense to change strategy when she was due to take the stand, for, in turn, speak up and fight back.
Last attempt?
Amber Heard’s lawyers have made a last-ditch attempt to have Johnny Depp’s lawsuit against her ex dismissed, asthey filed a motion to dismiss the comedian’s complaint : “The court should accept this motion to quash because of the indisputable evidence that he was, in fact, the one who assaulted Amber“, explained in particular the lawyer of the actress.
But the judge who is presiding over Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, yesterday dismissed the motion to quash filed by the lawyers of the latter. The latter judging in fact thatthere were enough elements to continue the trial, and thus let the seven jurors decide the outcome of the complaint that was filed by the 58-year-old actor. While she must soon be heard by the court, Amber Heard has also decided to dismiss Precision strategies, the team that manages its image, as well as its collaborators.
fights in bars and with the cops, women hitter
Johnny Depp has already found himself in court. It was in 2020, during a trial against the British tabloid The Sunwhich he continued for an article from 2018 who called him “women hitter“.
On his side, Jennifer Gray who shared Johnny Depp’s life also painted a dark portrait of him in his book: “Johnny was coming back and forth every week from Vancouver, but he was starting to have problems more and more regularly: fights in bars and with the cops. He had started missing his flights back to Los Angeles because he had overslept or when he came home he was madly jealous and paranoid about what I had done while he was gone. “.
We will of course keep you informed of the outcome of this trial which is unleashing the crowds.
