Depp libel case against Heard begins with opening statements

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A trial over libel allegations by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, will likely turn into a six-week, mudslinging soap opera, Heard's lawyers warned a Virginia jury Tuesday.

“You're going to see who the real Johnny Depp is — behind the fame, behind the pirate costumes,” Heard Lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn told the jury during opening statements in the civil trial. “Because Johnny Depp brought this case, all of this is going to come out.”

In Tuesday's opening statements, Rottenborn said the evidence will show that Depp physically and sexually assaulted Heard on multiple occasions. But he told jurors that they don't need to make themselves referees of the couple's turbulent marriage if they focus on the basics of libel law. “This man's poor choices have brought him to this point,” he said. “Stop blaming other people for your own self-created problems.”

Chew said that's a clear reference to a restraining order Heard sought in May 2016 — right after Depp told her he wanted a divorce — in which she claimed she'd been physically abused. Another of Depp's lawyers, Camille Vasquez, told the jury that Heard refuses to admit she lied and has now dug in even deeper.

 

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Blame social media bandwagon jumpers like Miss Heard quit lying out Ur rear end and apologize to depp he should sue u but he will be wasting his time cause u ain't got nothing.

Don't care. This shit isn't why I follow you.

Can't tell me there is freedom of speech in the USA when this sort of power play rolls in.

I stand with Johnny

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