Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard

It will be the fourth day on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court for Depp, who is suing his ex-wife for libel.

Heard's attorneys are trying to derail Depp's libel lawsuit, which alleges that she falsely portrayed him as a domestic abuser and ruined his acting career. Depp has been on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court since Tuesday afternoon. Heard lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn's cross-examination of Depp lasted all of Thursday and is scheduled to continue Monday.

Spectators assemble early each morning to get a coveted wristband to watch testimony in the contentious Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial.

This may be a result of multiple people being removed from court, including journalist Eve Barlow, a friend of Heard’s; Depp’s attorneys claimed Barlow was live-tweeting from the courtroom — where no phones are allowed — and showed Heard’s lawyer misleading evidence that led to the stricken testimony of one of Depp’s witnesses. She earned enough to stay until about May 7, she says, and hopes to return for the last week of the trial, expected to wrap up right before Memorial Day. “I know a lot of people, especially the mainstream media and movie critics, think what he’s doing is so ridiculous and that he needs to move on,” she says. By the second week, the county court put tighter security measures in place; deputies started requiring photo IDs and recording the names of everyone who gets a wristband. Taft has rallied others to show up in defense of the actress, whom she believes is being targeted by nefarious forces online that are amplifying Depp’s aggressively vocal fans. Nick Wallis, a British journalist, crowdfunded his trip here and is repaying his audience with live-tweeting of the trial as well as a newsletter and YouTube updates. Heard is also expected to take the stand in her defense. He will usually wave to them out his window; some days, you can hear screams as the ride passes by, and see the disappointment on the faces of those who didn’t make it. Jacinta Gillespie of Brisbane, Australia — who was “very disappointed” when Depp lost a 2020 libel suit against the U.K.-based Sun after a headline called him a “wife beater” — says she took four weeks of vacation to attend. But in a case involving celebrities, the scene is bound to turn intense. Amber Laura Heard” sign outside the courtroom and wonders out loud why in the world Johnny Depp is in Fairfax. The scene outside the Depp-Heard trial, entering its third week on Monday, has transformed the Fairfax County court complex from a place where Northern Virginia residents contest parking tickets to the stage for one of the biggest celebrity court cases in recent memory. Depp’s testimony lasted for more than seven hours over Tuesday and Wednesday before Heard’s defense lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, began cross-examination in earnest, taking up all of Thursday. He is scheduled to continue Monday. Depp’s appearance on the stand injects an extra flurry of activity into the proceedings.

Follow the New York Post's up-to-the-minute coverage of Johnny Depp's defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard as the trial continues in its third week.

In other snippets, played by the actress’ attorney Ben Rottenborn, Depp calls Heard a “c—t” and she references a time when he “beat the shit” out of her. In the same text, read in court, Depp called Heard “a malicious, evil and vindictive c—t” who had an “obsession with herself” and was “so desperate for success and fame.” The message came after the now-infamous 2015 fight with Heard in Australia that left Depp with a severed finger. Johnny Depp once texted his doctor that Amber Heard “is as full of s–t as a Christmas goose,” it was revealed in court today. “For example, the text that is about burning Ms. Heard is – it’s directly from Monty Python in a sketch about burning witches and then drowning the witches,” Depp said. For instance, Depp tried to explain away a text to a friend saying he hoped Heard’s “rotting corpse was decomposing in the f–king trunk of a Honda Civic” as a reference to British comedy troupe Monty Python. Court is back in session after the lunch break and Johnny Depp is still on the stand. Depp — famous for playing drunken pirate captain Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise — responds, “I’m never getting clean and sober.” Next to take the stand is Ben King, the house manager for the rental where Depp and Heard stayed in Australia in March 2015 — the scene of an alleged brutal fight that left him with a severed fingertip. Meyers asked Depp how he had responded after Heard goaded him in one clip to, “Tell the world, Johnny tell them, Johnny Depp, I, Johnny Depp, a man, I’m a victim too of domestic violence.” Ben King — who acted as a butler to Depp and joined him in Australia while the actor was filming a “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — said that the house was essentially trashed after a brutal fight between the ex-couple that ended in Depp losing the tip of a right middle finger. The house manager for an Australian property Johnny Depp and Amber Heard rented in 2015 has testified about finding part of the actor’s severed finger there.

"The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island," actor Johnny Depp says on the recording played in court ...

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'Something about people making literal merch pertaining to Amber Heard v Johnny Depp is very, very, VERY uncomfy to me,' one person said.

Attorneys for Amber Heard on Monday showed a jury critical news articles that they said damaged her ex-husband Johnny Depp's career well before the claim at ...

She said she threw things only to escape when he was beating her, and once punched him because she feared he would push her sister down the stairs. The newspaper is not a defendant. The suggestion was an attempt to find a "peaceful settlement," Depp said. The case hinges on a December 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post. The article never mentioned Depp by name, but his lawyer told jurors it was clear Heard was referencing him. Headlines included "Why are all of Johnny Depp's movies bombing at the box office?" "Tell them I, Johnny Depp - a man - I'm a victim too of domestic violence."

Other exchanges reveal the actor describing himself as a 'poor old junkie' who depended on his wife and her family.

Depp also explained that his texts to Paul Bettany in which he’d suggested drowning and burning his wife were references to a Monty Python sketch. “It hurt, like somebody hit me in the head with a two-by-four. “At that point it had been a good two solid years since the allegations had been planted firmly on my back,” Depp testified.

Johnny Depp is taking the stand against ex-wife Amber Heard for the fourth day as his libel lawsuit continues.

"It was like someone hit me in the back of the head with a two-by-four." "These characters should be able to have their proper goodbye," Depp said of the decision. I was at the end; I was broken," Depp said. "I've been in the racket of Hollywood since 1984," Depp responded. Depp has been on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court since Tuesday afternoon. In the column, she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. Rottenborn also honed in on texts Depp sent to colleagues and friends about his relationship, which continued to show Depp's struggle with substance abuse. Rottenborn also asked Depp to confirm whether Heard was the only person who had a problem with his drinking. "Why would I ruin the only thing that I was really good at in my life besides my children?" "I would excuse myself from the situation," Depp said. He said Heard had requested to meet up with him in San Francisco to finish a previous discussion. "How can I trust you that it will be a few minutes when you've done this in the past and disappeared for hours?," Heard says in the recording.

Stern called out Johnny Depp for being a "huge narcissist" and "overacting" during the trial.

First of all, isn’t he from like the South of the Midwest? Johnny Depp was born in Kentucky. Does that sound like a guy from Kentucky?” “It’s not going well for you, it’s not going well for her. “The reason he wanted that, he wanted it televised, is that’s what narcissists do,” Stern said of Depp on his SiriusXM radio show (via Mediaite). “They think they can talk their way out of anything.

Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard has taken a surreal turn, as makeup brand Milani took to TikTok to turn footage of the trial into ...

It’s a surreal clip to emerge from an excruciatingly ugly trial, in which Depp is accusing Heard of sabotaging his career by implying in an op-ed article that she had been a victim of domestic violence from Depp; the defamation lawsuit asks for $50 million in damages. In the TikTok clip, Milani pushes back against a claim made by one of Amber Heard's lawyers, that Heard used one of the company's concealers to cover up bruises during her abusive marriage to Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard has taken a surreal turn, as makeup brand Milani took to TikTok to turn footage of the trial into content, an advertisement masquerading as an “epic clapback” that has been viewed at least 4.6 million times.

At the trial in the defamation case filed by Mr. Depp, a property manager gave vivid descriptions of how one 2015 fight left behind blood and broken ...

He began looking in that area and said he soon found the fingertip, “nested” in a blood-streaked piece of paper. In a lower level of the home, Mr. King said, there was a smell of alcohol and cans strewn near a bar. Mr. King said one dispute in London began when Ms. Heard asked Mr. Depp why he had taken his hand away from her, adding that he thought she had sounded like a “spoiled teenage child.” Testifying on Monday, Mr. Depp said he learned in a published interview with a Disney executive, dated two days after Ms. Heard’s opinion piece came out, that he would not be returning to the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise for a potential sixth film. A chunk had been broken out of a marble staircase. Ms. Heard has denied hitting Mr. Depp except in self-defense or in defense of her sister. The premises were in disarray, he said. In 2018, she wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post, describing how her career had been negatively affected by becoming a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” In the courtroom. She has countered that he severed it himself when he smashed a phone against a wall. In his testimony, Mr. King said that he had worked at a residence belonging to Mr. Depp in London and also at the house in Australia, where Mr. Depp stayed while filming one of the “Pirates” films. He testified that he had seen and heard many arguments between Mr. Depp and Ms. Heard. Those tended to follow a pattern, Mr. King added, in which Mr. Depp would leave a room and Ms. Heard would follow.

Howard Stern branded Johnny Depp a “huge narcissist” and called him out for “overacting” in his ongoing trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.

“It’s not going well for you, it’s not going well for her. “First of all, his difficulty in speaking the English language is fantastic…And the accent. “They think they can talk their way out of anything,” Stern, 68, continued.