Johnny Depp's last trial plays out his professional future
The bell turns that the trial between the Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, also an actress, Amber Heard in this 2022 are giving are indisputable. Just a weekend after the premiere of the third installment of Fantastic Beasts, where Johnny Depp promised to surpass Voldemort in malice, the actor had to take the stand to play another leading role in "the largest libel trial in English of the 21st century." ”, a year after a UK court ruled against him.
After all this 'give and take' in a relationship at the level of The Neverending Story with unfavorable endings for the actor in which, in addition to having lost a huge amount of money, he has blurred his image in the movies in which he had a role insured, it seems that the whole framework is beginning to resolve. The last trial that began last Monday, April 11, has struck a blow on the table in favor of the interpreter of Pirates of the Caribbean. It seems that the judge has revealed an important document and at the same time a piece of evidence against Amber Heard where her infidelity to her husband would be unraveled, reflected in a videotape in which she appears in an elevator with actor James Franco. But the point in favor is not the infidelity, but the times. The meeting between the protagonist of Aquaman and the ephemeral meeting of her or her lover, if you want to call it that, occurred a day after the alleged fight in which Johnny Depp left the actress with bruises. This means that the counterclaim of more than 90 million euros that the actress launched against her then-husband would not prosper, benefiting the actor.
The story goes back to 2011. Amber Heard and Johny Depp met on the set of the movie The Rum Diaries. Reality crossed the screen and they began dating in 2012. Three years later they would marry in an intimate ceremony, although their married history would not last long because 15 months later, in May 2016, Amber filed for divorce accusing her husband of violence Days later, a court in Los Angeles grants him a restraining order. "I endured excessive emotional, verbal and physical abuse from Johnny, including angry, hostile, humiliating and threatening assaults whenever I questioned his authority or disagreed with him," the interpreter said against Depp's opinion. , who rejected the veracity of his sayings.
In August of that same year, in the middle of the divorce process, Heard retracts her and decides to withdraw the request for a restraining order, in exchange for sealing an agreement that was valued at more than 6 million euros in her favor. . The contradictions began when they released a statement by both that said: “Our relationship was intensely passionate and, at times, volatile, but always united by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intention of physical or emotional harm. These procedures concluded in 2017.
In the midst of all this altercation, something happened that was revealed by Johnny Depp's private doctor yesterday afternoon, who recounted how he had treated an actor's wound after he ended up with his finger amputated in Australia in March 2015 after an argument with Amber. He also claimed that after cleaning the wound, the American threw a bottle of Vodka at the actor.
Third chapter: Amber Heard publishes an article in 'The Washington Post'
On December 18, 2018, Amber Heard published an article in The Washington Post as an ambassador for women's rights in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) where she reaffirmed the violence she had suffered. . It was called I Spoke Out Against Sexual Violence and Faced the Wrath of Our Culture. That has to change and in it she talked about how two years ago, she became a public figure representing domestic abuse and because of that she felt "the full force of our culture's anger at women speaking out." “I had the rare benefit of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse,” she added. And while she wasn't referring directly to her attacker, she did put Johnny Depp back on the table.
Johnny Depp's downfall came right after that article. The actor never thought that Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017) would be the last film that he would shoot in the Hollywood universe. It was an interview for The Hollywood Reporter who revealed and confirmed the departure of Jack Sparrow from the Disney adventure saga. Two years later, the revenge would not be from Salazar but from Johnny, since the actor would file a lawsuit for 46 million euros for damages against his ex-wife, calling his previous accusations "categorically and demonstrably false". . And he went further, stating that "they were part of an elaborate hoax to generate positive publicity for Ms. Heard and advance her career", accusing her of being a "perpetrator".
Precisely yesterday the money that the interpreter had lost within her already not so extensive heritage came to light. The Richest revealed that Johnny Depp lost up to 600 million euros due to continued thefts from his ex-managers, in addition to a staggering reduction in his fortune added to his post-marriage lawsuits, leaving his coffers emptier.
But this did not stop there. The actress launched a counterclaim of more than 90 million euros stating that "Johnny Depp and his team orchestrated a false and defamatory smear campaign." That would have included a participation of the interpreter in the petitions on the Internet for the actress to be fired from the sequel to Aquaman and lose her contract with a brand.
The ex-partner faced each other in London weeks later, in a defamation trial that the interpreter lost against The Sun newspaper, which described him as a "wife beater."
On the other hand, the actress shared a message on her social networks two days before the start of the trial about the article she had written in The Washington Post indicating that she had written about the price women pay for speaking out against men. powerful men. “I continue to pay that price, but I hope that when this case is over, I can move on and so can Johnny” and she sentenced her post by saying that she had always “kept a love for Johnny”.
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"I never hit a woman" says the testimony of Johnny Depp
In the trial held yesterday afternoon, Monday, April 18, 2022, Johnny stressed that he had never used violence against any woman despite the fact that in his dysfunctional family, his mother always sought to harm her. “About six years ago, Miss Heard committed some pretty heinous and disturbing criminal acts against me that were not based on any kind of truth,” Depp said looking at the jury. "It was a complete shock that he did it, he just didn't need to go in that direction as nothing like that had ever happened." And he went on to say that "during the relationship there were arguments and things of that nature, but I never got to the point of hitting Miss Heard in any way nor have I ever hit any woman in my life," the movie star said.
Johnny Depp dusts off the sleazy culture of Hollywood
"Maybe a part of him feels, 'What do I have to lose? I'm going down. I'm bringing her with me,'" says Judy Poller, a Hollywood divorce attorney.
Reports of Depp's erratic behavior on set, extravagant spending and drug abuse were not at odds with the person who helped him earn more than $600 million over three decades in the movie business with the hit Pirates. Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland. But Heard's assault claims, validated at that London trial, made him virtually unemployable.
Depp's trial also comes as other A-listers have had their own overtures with what they call 'disgrace'. From Will Smith's slap in the face at the Oscars to the arrest of The Flash star and Dumbledore's Secrets star Ezra Miller, it's been a tough time for the leading men in Hollywood and the studios that employ them.
