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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard face each other this Friday in a face-to-face a court. (Photos: AP)
Johnny Depp’s lawyers asked a jury on Friday “to give Mr. Depp his life back.” ; by declaring that his ex-wife, Amber Heard, committed & gué; defamation.
Heard “ruined” His life by falsely telling the world that she was a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp ”, attorney Camille Vasquez told the jury in closing arguments, referring to Heard’s accusations that she had been physically and sexually assaulted by Depp on numerous occasions.
Depp hopes the six-week trial will help restore his reputation, though it has become a spectacle of a troubled marriage, with broadcast cameras in the courtroom capturing every turn to a hearing. She grows more and more engrossed as fans take to social media and line up. overnight for coveted court seats.
“This case for Mr. Depp has never been about money,” said Depp’s attorney, Benjamin Chew.
Then he added: “This is about Mr. Depp’s reputation and getting him out of the prison he has lived in for the last six years.”
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Heard’s attorney, J. Benjamin Rottenborn, said: He claims that the lawsuit is not about Depp’s reputation, but is part of an ongoing smear campaign Depp launched against Depp. after Heard filed for divorce.
“In Mr. Depp’s world, you don’t leave Mr. Depp,” he said. “If you do, it will start. a global humiliation campaign against you”.
Depp is Heard is suing Heard for $50 million in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 opinion piece he wrote. in The Washington Post, describing himself. herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse”. His lawyers say that he was defamed by the article even though he never mentioned it. his name.
Heard filed. filed a $100 million counterclaim against Depp He dismissed his accusations as a hoax.
Although the counterclaim received Less attention at trial, Heard’s attorney, Elaine Bredehoft, said it provides an avenue for the jury to compensate Heard for the abuse Depp has inflicted on her by orchestrating a n against you.
“We ask that you finally hold this man accountable,” he told the jury. “He has never accepted responsibility for anything in his life,” to Heard and that she invented allegations of abuse to gain an advantage in divorce proceedings. He has said that Heard often physically attacked him.
“There is an abuser in this courtroom, but it is not Mr. Depp,” Vasquez said.
Heard testified. He spoke about more than a dozen episodes of physical and sexual assault that he said Depp inflicted on him.
Vásquez, in his closing remarks, that Heard had to review her testimony about the first time she said she was beaten. Heard said Depp beat her & oacute; after she inadvertently laughed at one of her tattoos. Initially, Heard said that it happened. in 2013, she after a fairy tale year of courtship and romance, but later corrected herself. and she said it happened & oacute; in 2012, very early in their relationship.
“Now, in this courtroom, you have suddenly erased a whole year of magic,” Vásquez said.
Jurors have seen several photos of Heard with marks and bruises on her face, but some photos show only mild redness and others show more severe bruising.