Johnny Depp is busy getting ready for his courtroom battle towards ex-wife Amber Heard, which is able to quickly be coming to a small display screen close to you.
A decide has dominated that “one pool camera” will be permitted within the courtroom in order that proceedings may be partially broadcast because the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor wages a $50 million libel lawsuit towards Heard over a newspaper article wherein she described being a sufferer of home abuse.
The 58-year-old actor was snapped Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles assembly up in a parking storage along with his authorized counsel, which incorporates Adam Waldman, Benjamin Chew and new rent, Kathleen Zellner, who has famously labored to overturn wrongful convictions all through her profession.
Whereas Heard by no means talked about Depp’s identify within the 2019 Washington Post op-ed in query, he insists that the article was about him as a result of Heard beforehand alleged that she suffered two black eyes, a damaged nostril and a damaged lip at his fingers throughout a 2015 assault in Los Angeles.
Legal professional Chew, nonetheless, claims that when the LAPD responded to the alleged beating, “they discovered no harm upon Ms. Heard and no disruption to the penthouses.
“Ms. Heard and her pals then fabricated images that she used to acquire an ex parte TRO [temporary restraining order] and a $7 million divorce settlement which Ms. Heard falsely testified in London she gave to the ACLU and, extra scandalously, to the Kids’s Hospital of Los Angeles; sick kids with most cancers,” Chew alleged in his submitting.
Again in November, a courtroom dominated that the actor might have entry to his ex’s cellular phone in an effort to show she doctored images of pretend accidents he allegedly gave her.
Depp’s upcoming courtroom battle follows his libel go well with loss in London towards a newspaper columnist who labeled him a “wife-beater.” In March, Depp was refused permission to enchantment towards the ruling.
