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Jurors in the trial in Johnny Depp's defamation suit against Amber Heard watched a handful of depositions, including some that were taped, on Wednesday.

“It was surprising because Johnny had been hanging out with everybody in a friendly way and a switch flipped when that happened," Pennington said, characterizing the interaction between Heard and the woman as benign. "There was a wine spilled in the hallway," Pennington said. Asked who came up with "the monster" moniker, Pennington said it was Depp himself. “Amber was like catatonic, like a thousand-yard stare and she was like done," Drew said. “He was yelling," Pennington said of the incident. "And then suddenly he has a problem with her taking any sort of job or any sort of audition...it was another fight," Henriquez said. Depp made "paranoid, delusional rants" when he was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, Whitney Henriquez testified. And it was just a progression...so slow, in hindsight it's like watching a slow motion gunshot." Henriquez, who was living in a penthouse owned by Depp, testified that Depp falsely accused her of leaking stories to the press. Sexton testified that the trip began with everyone having a "lovely time," including Depp who was singing and playing guitar. "He was holding a very large wine bottle...which is kind of spilling all over the place." "Johnny was apologizing for what he had done, and he was instructing his bodyguards to just pay it off.

Whitney Henriquez, Amber Heard's sister, told jurors on Wednesday that Johnny Depp repeatedly hit Heard in the face.

Pennington took a number of photos showing bruises on Heard’s face and said she was scared on her friend’s behalf. She also remembered an incident — which Heard had also described — when Depp held a teacup yorkie out the window of a moving car while drunk. Henriquez testified that the next morning, she and Heard discovered that Heard’s closet had been trashed and her clothing racks were overturned on the stairs. She remembered that during a party in London, Depp became angry and threw a steak knife at his assistant, missing him. In that case, the judge found that Depp did assault Heard on that occasion, as well as on numerous others. Henriquez described witnessing a fight in which Depp and Heard were screaming obscenities at each other.

Amber Heard's sister has testified she personally witnessed Johnny Depp and Heard strike each other during a fight.

She said she later saw Depp wielding a wine bottle to smash and knock things off the walls and counters. Heard testified that Depp sexually assaulted Heard with a liquor bottle on that trip and that she cut her feet on broken glass from the attack. She said she then covered Heard with her own body on the floor as Depp screamed at Heard to get up. In addition to the December 2015 incident, Pennington said she saw cuts on Heard's feet when she returned from a trip to Australia in March 2015. Henriquez also told a story about Depp's behavior at Heard's 30th birthday party in April 2016, one of the final fights between the couple. It was the only time, Henriquez said, that she personally witnessed a physical assault.

Today's observations directly address Depp's and his team's attempts to explain away alleged abuse during his defamation trial against Heard.

At one point, Pennington was asked whether she had ever seen Heard “paint on bruises or use makeup to make it appear as if she had a bruise when, in fact, she didn’t.” “No, the opposite,” Pennington said. “And he’s howling and, like, holding the dog out the window.” Heard said she was able to gently bring Depp’s arms and the dog back inside. “Her right eye has a mark and bruise, her nose is swollen, there’s bruising on her left eye as well,” she said. Henriquez said he “made some joke about putting her in the microwave … putting the dog in the microwave” and was laughing in a “really scary, loud” way. “I was scared because I just remember thinking — I knew how inebriated he was, and the dog was very small. Henriquez looked, and “Johnny is holding a dog out the window,” she said.

Amber Heard's sister testified on Wednesday that she witnessed actor Johnny Depp grab Heard by the hair and hit her in the face repeatedly when they were ...

Henriquez, who was cross examined by Depp's attorney Rebecca Lecaroz, said that she sometimes acted like a marriage counselor and, at times, sided with Depp in arguments. Though Depp was not named in the article, he claims it cost him lucrative acting roles. Again, Amber was very much in love, so was Johnny. She's telling me that she wants something. Henriquez said during an altercation, Depp ran up a set of stairs toward her. "He comes up behind me, strikes me in the back. "By that time Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other."

Whitney Heard Henriquez testified that the effects of the actress' marriage to Depp were like “a slow-motion gunshot” that left her sister “physically unwell”.

Heard has described herself as a survivor of a violent, manipulative abuser who repeatedly threatened to kill her and, in one horrific account, sexually assaulted her with a bottle. Drew testified that after Heard and Depp separated, he began to see the billionaire inventor Elon Musk coming around to the penthouse to visit Heard. The couple that also lived rent-free in Depp’s Los Angeles penthouse complex, jewelry maker Raquel Pennington and chef Josh Drew, described the home life of their landlord and his actress wife — their down-the-hall neighbors, friends, and benefactors — as a whirl of chaos and violence. Depp then grabbed Heard “by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other,” she testified. Amid the argument, Henriquez testified, Depp flung a Red Bull can that struck his personal nurse, Debbie Lloyd, in the back, as the Heard sisters looked on from a mezzanine overlooking the apartment kitchen and living room. Henriquez, who lived gratis in the same apartment complex as a guest of her sister, testified to a violent fight between the Depp and Heard in March of 2015 — just two months after they had married. “And I was thinking if he gets any closer, I’m just gonna pick up the ashtray and, like, hit him with it,” Pennington said between sobs. The seven-member jury also heard today from Heard’s makeup artist — who testified that she helped Heard cover facial bruising — and a couple, later divorced, who lived rent-free down the hall from Depp and Heard in a group of conjoined penthouse apartments in downtown Los Angeles owned by Depp. Challenged by Depp attorney Rebecca MacDowell Lecaroz, Henriquez said she was trying to accommodate her sister’s wish to keep the relationship intact because when Depp was sober, “things were wonderful.” Depp, Henriquez said, was drunk and in a rage after being confronted by Heard with texts that made her suspect he was cheating. In the 18th day of Depp’s defamation trial against Heard, the actress’ younger sister Whitney Heard Henriquez also became the first witness to say that she saw Depp strike his wife. Heard, off the witness stand for the first time in several days, watched the proceedings inside a packed Virginia courtroom from her chair at her lawyers’ table.

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Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez Heard told jurors Wednesday that Johnny Depp smacked her in the back during the infamous staircase fight in 2015.

Several witnesses -- including Depp and Heard -- have given differing accounts of the staircase incident. Heard testified on direct examination that when she saw her sister standing at the top of the stairs and then saw Depp allegedly swing at Heard she went into protective mode. But a source close to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star told Fox News Digital it isn't true, and the actor remains on good terms with the supermodel.

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"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.

Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez testified Wednesday that then-brother-in-law Johnny Depp struck her in the back in March 2015.

Heard testified that she "swung at" Depp in the alleged fight so that he "didn't push my sister down the stairs." "Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a fist and an arm come across my right shoulder and I heard and saw a closed fist contact Mr. Depp in the left side of his face. He added that he blocked a purse thrown by Heard too, and that the Aquaman actress "tried to spit on" Depp amid the "verbal vitriol from both of them." Depp is suing Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post about surviving domestic abuse, though she didn't mention him by name in the article. In March 2021, his attempt to overturn the decision was overruled. Adding of the actor's reaction, he said: "The initial look on his face kind of mirrored mine, kind of a look of shock. She said on the stand, "In all of my relationship to date with Johnny, I hadn't landed a blow. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages. Then, "I'm at the top of the stairs with my back to the stairs, and that's when Johnny runs up the stairs. McGivern, one of Depp's witnesses, previously testified in the trial, offering a differing account of the staircase incident. Following the staircase incident, Henriquez said she was given a non-disclosure agreement form to sign. Henriquez was also questioned about the March 2015 incident when Depp, now 58, allegedly hit her and Heard on a staircase at their penthouse.