So much for staying out of the spotlight!
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Depp texts that have been presented by Heard’s team during the six-week trial should not be taken at face value.“Ms. Heard has shown you a lot of text messages from Mr. Depp with some very vivid language,” Vasquez said.
“As I told you at the start of this trial, Mr. Depp has a unique style of writing. He uses words I don’t use and you probably don’t use either.
“But as you also heard during this trial, Mr. Depp writes that way, in part, because he models his writings on literary giants like Hunter S. Thompson,” Vasquez remarked, after which Heard smirked, covered her forehead with her palm and scratched her eyebrow.
“And he’s got a dark sense of humor. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But it’s who he is.” Heard’s attorneys presented the texts last month during testimony from Depp, as the focus of cross-examination turned to the “Pirates” actor’s drug use and text messages he sent referring to Heard as an “idiot cow,” “worthless hooker,” and “filthy whore.”Heard’s lawyer J.
Benjamin Rottenborn also showed texts from a 2013 exchange between Depp and actor Paul Bettany. Depp told the court he and Bettany were friends and they did cocaine together.In one text exchange with Bettany, Depp wrote: “Let’s burn Amber!!!” Bettany responded: “Having thought it through I don’t think we should burn Amber …”Depp texted: “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f— her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”On Friday, Vasquez said that Depp “owns his text messages.”“He acknowledges he said those things, and he said things that he shouldn’t have,” Vasquez said. “But using bad language and colorful humor does not mean you are violent abuser.”While Vasquez said Depp was inspired in his violent texts by Thompson, the writer who
.So much for staying out of the spotlight!
defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, French luxury house Christian Dior retained its contractual ties to the actor with fans rushing to empty shelves of the perfume as a show of support. The ad features Depp playing a guitar in a desert as a howloing wolf walks alongside him appeared on Fox in a move which could see more of Depp’s endorsements return to the public sphere.
giving an excited fist-pump during the star’s explosive defamation trial.Chew confirmed to Law&Crime that his now-viral courtroom celebration came because he knew Amber Heard’s decision to mention unfounded rumors about Depp’s treatment of another famous ex, Kate Moss, would be a turning point in unraveling her testimony.“There was an instance in which Ms. Heard actually did admit to punching Johnny, and that was what we call the ‘staircase incident,” the now-celebrity lawyer told the outlet.He recalled how Heard told the court she “had to punch Johnny” or else he would “have pushed her sister Whitney down the stairs the same way she had heard that he had pushed Kate Moss down the stairs.”“I lost my composure for a moment and did a fist-pump because I knew that was not true,” Chew, 60, said of his caught-on-camera celebration.Still, he insisted that Heard’s mention of the British supermodel “put a lot of pressure on us — we really had to come up with the goods.”“Fortunately, Ms.
Johnny Depp’s lawyer has said that claims that the jury was ‘tainted’ by social media during the defamation case between him and Amber Heard are ‘baseless’. A representative for the 59 year old actor has expressed his disappointment at the accusations that the jurors' integrity was compromised.The accusation was made by Elaine Bredehoft in an interview with the US news programme Today, shortly after verdicts were returned in the multi-million dollar defamation case in Virginia. Benjamin Chew, who was part of Pirates of the Caribbean actor Johnny’s legal team, has said that these accusations were “really disappointing” to hear.
Camille Vasquez, 37, has become a household name as one of Depp’s lead lawyers who helped him win his defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, 36.She caught audiences’ attention during Heard’s cutthroat cross-examination, often sparring with the actress on the stand. One fan admired the lawyer so much that she even tattooed an outline of Vasquez onto herself. The successful attorney also made headlines as people questioned the extent of her relationship with Depp, 58, with some speculating that the two had begun a romance during the trial.Couple rumors spiraled when Vasquez failed to answer reporters’ questions about the extent of her relationship with her client coyly laughing and throwing her brunette waves over her shoulder.
Zack Sharf Jeff Beck announced during his June 2 concert in the English city of Gateshead that he’ll be releasing a new album with Johnny Depp next month. The album will mark Depp’s first major project released since the end of his highly-publicized defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp bowed to the crowd during Beck’s announcement.“I’m gonna take this opportunity and tell you I met this guy five years ago, and we’ve never stopped laughing since,” Beck told the crowd about Depp (via Stereogum).
Today.Host Savannah Guthrie asked Heard lawyer Elaine Charlson Bredehoft whether the “Aquaman” actress plans to appeal the stunning decision announced Wednesday.“Oh, absolutely,” Bredehoft said. “And she has some excellent grounds for it.”Bredehoft cited the U.K.
Johnny Depp was spotted in a Newcastle pub garden with Sam Fender as the verdict on the defamation lawsuit he launched against his ex-wife Amber Heard was heard. Shortly after 7pm UK time, the jury announced they had ruled in favour of Johnny as they read out the verdict in the courthouse in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Wednesday 1 June.
After a jury ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in the defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, awarding him $15 million, the actor is breaking his silence.
Johnny Depp has won his multimillion-dollar US lawsuit against former wife Amber Heard after a jury ruled her 2018 article in the Washington Post was defamatory. Mr Depp sued the Aquaman star for 50 million US dollars over the piece, titled: "I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change."
The jury finally reached a verdict in Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial against Amber Heard, but when it happened, the actor wasn’t there.
Johnny Depp is in London as he awaits the verdict in his high-profile defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.MORE: Surprising reason Johnny Depp WON'T be in court when trial verdict is readAnd while in the capital, the Pirates of the Caribbean star has been able to spend time catching up with old friends – including Kate Moss. WATCH: Kate Moss testifies in Johnny Depp defamation trialJohnny invited his ex-girlfriend to watch as he performed in front of a sold-out crowd alongside Jeff Beck at the Royal Albert Hall for the third night in a row, the Daily Mail reports.READ: Amber Heard makes surprising last-minute request regarding juryMORE: The real reason Johnny Depp REFUSES to look at Amber Heard during trialKate, who gave evidence in the trial as a rebuttal witness, publicly showed her support for Johnny again by attending the concert.
Johnny Depp surprised British fans as he took to the stage in London on Monday night, a day after performing in Sheffield alongside his longtime friend and music collaborator Jeff Beck. Having spent the past six weeks in a Fairfax County, Virginia courthouse, Johnny, 58, opted for a change of scenery as he was pictured rocking out on stage at the Royal Albert Hall with Beck, for the second night in a row. The star was seen letting loose just days after closing arguments were heard in the $100million libel lawsuit he launched against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
On the eve of the jury’s first full day of deliberations, Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against Amber Heard has become a morass of misdirection and repugnance.
Penney Azcarate, Chief Justice of the 19th Circuit in Virginia, began the morning by instructing the jury on how to weigh the evidence against the charges.