The jurors have been retiring since Friday to decide on a lengthy lawsuit that sparked a domestic violence scandal that sparked controversy between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, in a U.S. court. raw details of their lives.
Amber Heard’s life has been “hell” since the trial began, her lawyer Elaine Brendhoft said on the final day of the Fairfax court hearing near Washington.
The lawyer asked the jurors – five men and two women – to dismiss his lawsuit Johnny Depp “To allow her to go on with her life and raise her child.”
The 58-year-old actor also wants to “continue his life”, his lawyer Camille Vasquez had previously stated.
The jurors left after a two-hour meeting without a decision. They will return to court tomorrow, as today is a holiday in the United States.
The star of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel has sued his ex-wife for defamation, which was mentioned in an article in the Washington Post in 2018 to a “public figure who embodies domestic violence”, without naming Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp is seeking $ 50 million in damages on the grounds that the article ruined his career and reputation.
Amber Heard, from the films “Justice League” and “Aquaman”, went on the counterattack and demands double the amount of compensation. She states that this useless lawsuit prolongs “the abuses and harassment that Johnny Depp has subjected her to”.
“One and only attack”
If the jury decides that “Amber has suffered only one attack, she wins,” said one of her attorneys, Ben Rothenborn, after listing the couple’s numerous quarrels, some of which resulted in violence.
“Consider the message Mr. Depp and his advocates are sending to Amber and consequently to every victim of domestic violence,” he added, referring to the Washington Post article.
“This trial means more than just Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard, it’s about freedom of expression. “Defend her, protect her,” he told the jury.
“The first amendment (to the US Constitution) does not protect those who lie and defame others,” Camille Vasquez replied.
Johnny Depp’s lawyers denounce Amber Heard’s “lies”who “sought to destroy her ex-husband”.
“For exactly six years, on May 27, 2016, Mrs. “Herd went to court and filed a false lawsuit for domestic violence,” she said. Basques, stating that her client was the one who had been the victim of violence by her husband and not the other way around.
His other lawyer, Ben Chu, recalled that “no woman before Amber Heard had ever accused Johnny Depp of raising his hand against her at the age of 58, and no one has done so since.”
Johnny Depp “lost everything” and was “wiped out by Hollywood” after the article was published by his ex-partner, the lawyer said, “because everyone understood who he was talking about”.
Death threats
The actress “supports and believes in the #MeToo movement, which denounces violence against women,” the lawyer assured.
Dozens of witnesses have paraded in front of the jury since April 11, and audio and video recordings have revealed scandalous details of the couple’s life together that have nothing to do with Hollywood glamor.
The actress told how Johnny Depp turned into a “monster” under the influence of an explosive cocktail of drugs and alcohol and that he was not undergoing treatment for addiction.
Amber Heard accused him of raping her using a bottle of alcohol in March 2015, a month after his wedding, in Australia, where the actor was shooting the fifth sequel to “Pirates of the Caribbean”.
That day, he was found with the amputated tip of one of his fingers and was hospitalized. He states that it was caused by a broken bottle that was thrown at him by Amber Heard. She assures that he injured himself.
After leaving him in May 2016, Amber Heard claims to have been the target of a social media defamation campaign that ruined her career.
He alleges that he has been the target of “harassment” since the beginning of the trial, which was broadcast live on television, and that he has received “thousands” of death threats.
Johnny Depp, for his part, can count on the support of hundreds of his fans, who cheered him on every day throughout the trial.
The actor has already lost a first defamation lawsuit in London in 2020, against the British tabloid The Sun, which had described him as a “violent husband”.
The two actors divorced in 2017 and state that each of them has lost 40 and 50 million dollars since the fall of their case after the article was published in the Washington Post.
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