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The couple divorced in 2016 in an out of court settlement. Depp sued the publisher of The Sun tabloid in London in 2020 for defamation, but lost the case. The ...

Domestic abuse is a crime in both the U.S. and in Britain, and Depp has not been convicted of that crime in either country. But Azcarate ruled in Heard's favor last month when she agreed Heard can argue to a jury that she should be protected from Depp's lawsuit because her column on domestic violence dealt with a matter of public interest and thus could be shielded under Virginia law. "If anything, upholding English libel judgments in the United States would create the chilling effect and could create a dangerous precedent," she ruled. In the column, she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse, a claim she first raised during their corrosive divorce proceeding in 2016 in Los Angeles. Reporters can cover the trial in person but with pen and paper only – no devices. Both sides' witness lists contain names of people who came up at the London trial. The trial will be televised via Court TV and Court TV's online website, beginning after a jury has been selected, probably on Tuesday. Amber wishes the best for Johnny in the future." More than two years went by before Heard published her column, catching the wave of the 2017 MeToo movement. Depp and his former lawyer angrily denounced Heard's claims, then filed suit in March 2019. That, too, is a source of contention between them about whether she did.) And the settlement statement they jointly issued said in part: "Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.

What are the allegations being made? Johnny Depp filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in March 2019. He alleges that Heard defamed him in an op-ed ...

In it, Heard wrote in part: “Like many women, I had been harassed and sexually assaulted by the time I was of college age. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. In August 2020, Heard filed a counterclaim against Depp in response to his libel lawsuit, accusing him of allegedly orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and describing his own lawsuit as a continuation of “abuse and harassment.”

Depp's lawyers tried to subpoena Musk on six different occasions to grill him over allegations he had an affair with Heard during their 18-month marriage.

Either way he's been silent about what he knows for the past six years and there's little to suggest that will change,' our insider added. Another $500,000 came from someone named 'Elon', according to Depp's lawyers. Depp ultimately lost that case with Mr Justice Nicol determining that the outlet's depiction of Depp was 'substantially true' and that the father-of-two had attacked Heard a dozen times, causing her to fear for her life on three occasions. That prompted Depp to file for defamation in Virginia, where the Washington Post's servers were based, stating: 'Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator.' Depp and Heard are preparing to square off over a December 2018 op-ed she penned for the Washington Post describing herself as a domestic violence survivor. Depp and Heard are preparing to square off over a 2018 op-ed she penned for the Washington Post describing herself as a domestic violence survivor - Depp and Heard are preparing to square off over a 2018 op-ed she penned for the Washington Post describing herself as a domestic violence survivor Depp has further accused Heard of starting an affair with Musk one month into their marriage and wants to know what she told the entrepreneur about their blowout fight. DailyMail.com can reveal that Depp's lawyers tried to subpoena Musk on six different occasions to grill him over allegations he had an affair with Heard during her ill-fated 18-month marriage. Depp's lawyers tried to subpoena Musk on six different occasions to grill him over allegations he had an affair with Heard during their 18-month marriage - Depp's lawyers tried to subpoena Musk on six different occasions to grill him over allegations he had an affair with Heard during their 18-month marriage EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk will be a NO SHOW at Johnny Depp's $100millon defamation trial despite the actor's efforts to grill the world's richest man over allegations he had an affair with Amber Heard during their marriage

Find out more about why Elon Musk is being called on to testify in in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial.

Amber hit back at claims that she was seeing Elon while married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star during a July 2020 testimony, viaBBC. She said that she wasn’t in a “relationship or seeing” Elon during Johnny’s 2020 libel trial against The Sun, which Johnny lost. “Elon and I had a beautiful relationship, and we have a beautiful friendship now, one that was based on our core values,” she told The Hollywood Reporterin a 2018 interview. Another actor who’s expected to testify via video call is Amber’s The Adderall Diaries co-star James Franco. During Amber and Johnny’s 2019 trial, a video surfaced of the actress riding in an elevator in their apartment complex with James. Amber had said that James had asked her about bruises that she alleged came from a dispute that involved Johnny throwing a cell phone at her during a 2020 testimony, via People. “He was saying to me, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?'” she said in the court at the time. The suit continues to claim that Amber had asked the building staff to give Elon access to the parking garage as well as the penthouse elevator. One of the most surprising people set to to testify in the defamation trial for Johnny Depp and Amber Heardis Tesla CEOElon Musk.Elon is expected to testify via video call during the trial, via court documents. The supposed visits fall closer to a much more serious alleged incident documented in the paperwork, which is possibly why Elon is being called on to testify.