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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard's sister testified Wednesday that she found herself in the middle of fights — literally and figuratively — between her ...

Honesty, respectability, sincerity — the clothes make the argument.

In the end, this is partly a trial of image, and of how things appear on the outside versus what happens behind closed doors. In court, as in the Paramount wardrobe department. Williams in 1976, that “the State cannot, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, compel an accused to stand trial before a jury while dressed in identifiable prison clothes.” The outfit alone was likely to sway the jury toward an assumption of guilt. To acknowledge the role image-making plays in human prejudice when it comes to justice, right and wrong, is simply to recognize all the ways each side is attempting to make its case — the way the parties are appealing not just to those in the room, those actually deciding the legal outcome, but to the court of public opinion. In the courtroom. As a result, an entire subspecialty of the styling profession has developed focusing on courtroom attire. Her hair is done in a series of complicated 1930s updos, braids and buns, the occasional tendril just escaping its bonds. The word “performance” has come up again and again — as though that were, somehow, a surprise. In the other corner: Ms. Heard, similarly suited in classic, muted tones of gray and navy. It’s not exactly Wall Street functionary — the dark shirts and abstract print ties speak to a different cinematographic stereotype — but it’s pretty close to prosperous burgher. It has been the subject of countless TikTok clips, hashtags, impassioned fan postings and a “Saturday Night Live” skit. The silver skull jewelry that has been his signature is toned down; the scarves and desert boots left behind.

Testimony continues Thursday in Johnny Depp's defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Testimony is expected to end next week, and closing arguments ...

"But then after that when I said, 'why are you doing this?,' he kind of hid it from me for a long time." "I didn't get to have the conversation with him, 'what are you talking about?'" Witkin said. "And it seemed as I increased my level of expressing that concern, there was anger directed, you know in my direction. Witkin said that he had been close friends from about 1982 to 2018, saying Depp was probably his best friend at a point. "The spending levels had grown very, very, very large and require that level of incredibly high income to be maintained," Mandel said. She testified that Depp's "star had dimmed" over the bad reputation. The actor's financial situation became relatively dire between July 2015 and when Mandel was terminated in March 2016, Mandel confirmed. That meant buying additional property, buying additional personal property ... a bigger life and more expensive." "People moderate their behavior, they might moderate their behavior in public because things are inappropriate in particular settings … my experience was that Mr. Depp became increasingly less constrained," Mandel said. Mandel denied accusations that he stole money from Depp or failed to file required tax returns on Depp's behalf during his testimony. Depp's stretches of sobriety helped but that Depp began to express his discontent in an aggressive manner. "But that meant a bigger life, it meant more employees.

A bakery in Australia has been excoriated online after sharing a controversial dessert made amid the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial.

In fact, a recent study found that Americans care more about the Depp v. “We’re sending Amber Heard a dessert box. During the trial, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor claimed in court that his ex-wife threw a vodka bottle at him which led to his finger being “severed” during a 2015 trip to Australia.

I was harassed. I am harassed on a daily basis, death threats,” Heard told the court on Monday.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were married in February 2015 before the actress filed for divorce in May 2016. Here is a complete timeline of their ...

Depp appeared to rewrite the script across his knuckles, which once read "Slim" — a rumored nickname for Heard — in July 2016. If so, since he lost the Domestic Violence Restraining Order and he resoundingly lost the libel case in the UK, perhaps he should consider a new strategy rather than the recycled approach of attacking the victim, and refusing to take responsibility for his own conduct." In response, Heard's rep issued a statement, which read, "This frivolous action is just the latest of Johnny Depp's repeated efforts to silence Amber Heard. She will not be silenced. "Johnny grabbed me by the hair and violently shoved me to the floor. Heard also included a photo of a bruise on her right eye that she claimed to have sustained from Depp in the altercation. "Each time Heard returned, however, within months, the cycle of substance abuse and violence repeated." "Amber is attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse," the lawyer said in court documents. Depp and Heard also issued a joint video apology to the Queensland court. "I heard [my friend] yell at me to get out of the house. "The weather was perfect and the beach setting was gorgeous," the insider said. The Golden Globe winner said their early interactions had a forbidden element, as he was in a relationship with Paradis at the time and Heard was dating van Ree. "That moment, was, it was, it felt like something, it felt like something I should not be feeling," he told the courtroom. "It was really sweet, he got down on one knee and said, 'I want you to be my girl, be my girl forever … I want you to be the rest of my life.

Language-learning app DuoLingo has come under fire after its social media team left an "insensitive" quip about Amber Heard beneath a viral TikTok video.

She did not specifically name Depp in the article, but it was written after Heard filed for a restraining order against her ex-husband in 2016 over abuse allegations. On that app, videos with the hashtag “#JusticeForJohnnny” have been viewed a staggering 13.4 billion times. A recent analysis from social media monitoring company NewsWhip shows Americans are more interested in the Depp v.

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Jurors also heard from Heard's former best friend, Raquel "Rocky" Pennington, who said during her pre-recorded video deposition that she saw bruises and cuts on the "Aquaman" actress's body after her fights with Depp, and she took photos of Heard's face after her husband allegedly head-butted her in December 2015. Amber Heard's baby sister, Whitney Henriquez, took the witness stand Wednesday, telling the jurors that Johnny Depp struck her and called her a "whore" when she found herself in the middle of one of the couple's blowout fights. "Don't hit my f---ing sister," Heard allegedly told her husband, before she "landed one" on Depp to protect Henriquez, the sister told the court. He claimed that in his younger days, Depp was jealous of fellow actor Nicolas Cage. He also allegedly exhibited jealous behavior during his relationship with Vanessa Paradis, but Witkin said "a lot of it was in his head and not in reality." The feuding former spouses are back in Fairfax County Circuit Court for the continuation of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation trial, now in its fifth week. Bruce Witkin said he witnessed Johnny Depp snort cocaine for the first time in 2014, and he was surprised because, he said, the actor hated the drug when they were "kids" and would stay away from it.

The jury in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial on Thursday saw the actor's former agent and former business manager describe the collapse of his ...

Asked about one of Depp’s reasons for dropping her as his agent — that her interests “were different than when we started” — Jacobs denied that she had conflicts and said that she was never represented by Mandel. Jacobs said that Depp was paid $25 million plus backend for Pirates 5, but that she could not recall whether there was any kind of negotiation for him to appear in the next in the film franchise. They included phone calls with a person who posts on social media by the name of “That Umbrella Guy,” as well as others. She said that the “other things” included questions about his drug and alcohol use. In pre-recorded video testimony that was played for the jury, Heard’s attorney asked Jacobs, “So Mr. Depp came in and said, ‘I want you to get $20 million for me?'” “He is just a jealous man, controlling,” Barkin also said of Depp in language and details that are very similar to how Heard and other witnesses for the defense have characterized the actor. By the time that Depp dropped UTA in 2016, Jacobs said that his reputation for being tardy to sets had made it more difficult to get him work. Newman also said she was “not aware” that Heard’s op-ed played any role in Depp not being asked back for a yet unmade Pirates 6. “Very mean,” the lawyer said to the court of Depp’s behavior to her. “He switched the buttons,” Barkin said of the change in her relationship in 1994 with Depp, who she had known for several years beforehand. Barkin said the bottle was thrown toward her and others in Mr. Depp’s Sin City suite during “a fight.” The former Pirates of the Caribbean actor has also insisted that besides a bout with opioid Oxycodone in and around 2014, he has never had a drug or alcohol problem, no matter how much he ingests.

Jurors in the ongoing defamation case between actress Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp heard testimony Thursday from Depp's former talent agent, ...

Witkin said he talked to Depp about his substance abuse and said that the people who worked around him weren't always willing to speak up about it. One former friend of Depp, Bruce Witkin, testified in a recorded deposition that Depp stopped speaking with him four years ago after testimony Witkin gave in a lawsuit. And that translated into more erratic behavior, more stressful behavior, more times when it was difficult to engage in the kinds of conversation I needed to do my job." She testified that Depp regularly had to use an earpiece while on set in order to be fed his lines. "People were talking and the question was out there about his behavior." Jacobs said Depp terminated her around the same time he parted ways with other business associates in his life.