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Get the latest updates from Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard from the New York Post, as Depp is set to go back on the ...

Every time Depp has filed a lawsuit, it has "brought to light various issues," she testified. Heard has said she never saw specifically how the injury happened, but that it took place before the actor sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Spiegel, a psychiatrist, said "battered wife syndrome" — also called "battered person syndrome" — is a subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder that Heard has from her relationship with Depp. Expert witness Dr. David Spiegel testified that Amber Heard has "battered wife syndrome" — not "borderline personality disorder" like a witness for Johnny Depp has previously claimed. She claims he injured himself in a drug-fueled binge. Also Monday, a psychiatrist testified that Depp’s behavior fits the pattern of a person whose drug and alcohol abuse contributes to domestic violence, while an entertainment expert told the court that Heard lost out on a potential $40 million to $50 million after her abuse claims were called a "hoax" by her ex-husband's lawyer. "Her worked stopped," Arnold said, adding that rather than having negotiating power for the upcoming "Aquaman 2," Heard was begging not to be cut out of the film. Chew claimed that Heard has failed to prove that one of Depp's other lawyers was acting with "actual malice" when he called her abuse claims "a hoax." Heard's defense has claimed that Depp's attorney Adam Waldman called the actress's abuse claims "a hoax," and alleged his team planted a story in a foreign tabloid about the LAPD opening a perjury investigation into the actress -- after going to the police and filing a report himself. Azcarate said she was leaving it to the jury to decide whether Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman was acting with actual malice when he alleged that Heard's abuse claims were "a hoax." "It is not my role to measure the veracity and weight of the evidence," the judge announced Tuesday. "The plaintiff's motion to strike is denied, OK?" Warner Bros. executive Walter Hamada testified via deposition Tuesday that Amber Heard's compensation for "Aquaman 2" was not affected by statements by Johnny Depp and his team -- putting a dent in the actress's defamation countersuit.

The judge in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial rejected the actor's effort to reject his $100 million counterclaim. Heard's counterclaim centers ...

“As to actual malice, Mr. Waldman made the counterclaim statements after he met with his client,” the judge said. Azcarate was not weighing in on whose side she thinks will prevail, but merely whether each side had met its threshold for their case to continue. Heard’s counterclaim centers on statements made by an attorney for Depp, Adam Waldman, who claimed in a Daily Mail interview that the actresses’ allegations of domestic abuse were fabricated.

The counterclaim alleges that Depp's attorney, Adam Waldman, defamed Heard and damaged her career when he accused her and her friends of perpetrating an “abuse ...

Depp’s team also made a motion to bar Heard from claiming immunity from a defamation suit under Virginia’s anti-SLAPP statute. Heard’s attorneys also made a similar motion to dismiss Depp’s underlying defamation suit after Depp’s team rested their case on May 3. Ben Rottenborn, Heard’s attorney, argued that Waldman was acting as Depp’s lawyer, and that Depp is therefore responsible for Waldman’s conduct. Mr. Depp is an abuser who abused Ms. Heard. She did not conspire with her friends to create a hoax. Chew also argued that there is no evidence that Depp saw or knew about Waldman’s statements until the counterclaim was filed. Depp is suing Heard for alluding to her prior domestic violence claims in a December 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post. Azcarate denied that motion as well, meaning that the jury will have to decide both Depp’s suit and Heard’s counterclaim.

Depp is suing Heard for libel over a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse."

During a morning break, one woman professed her love for Depp and asked when he was going to acknowledge that he was the father of the baby she was holding in her arms. Dennison, in his questioning, scoffed at the notion that Heard was in the same league as those stars. Moore also said there would have been other cuts on the rest of his hand from the glass that shattered on impact. Moore said the fingernail was exposed, as Depp described the placement of his hand, and would have been damaged. His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name. Depp says he was injured when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.

Testimony on Monday in the defamation case brought by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard included Dr. Richard Moore, an orthopedic surgeon; Dr.

The malice standard, meaning a party must have acted with reckless disregard for the truth, is required to win a defamation suit as a public figure. "When Mr. Waldman made those statements, he was standing in the shoes of Mr. Depp," Heard's attorney, Ben Rottenborn, said. "The counterclaim statements are 100 percent false, there was no hoax perpetrated," Rottenborn said. And on of the things we're putting a reign on was not renegotiating every deal." "And Ms. Arnold, from somewhere in a glib way, (is) saying she (Heard) could get a couple series of a million each?" "We get the options for subsequent movies and I think prior to me joining the company, every option was renegotiated. Depp testified in April and claimed he was the victim of domestic abuse. "I can tell you as someone in the trenches, rarely, rarely does an actor get an $1 million for a series episode." Dr. David Spiegel racked up hundreds of 1-star reviews in Google and WebMD following his testimony. The argument made by Depp's legal team is that Heard failed to prove that Adam Waldman acted with "actual malice" when accusing her of creating an abuse "hoax" in three statements to the Daily Mail in 2020. Depp's legal team requested the judge dismiss Heard's $100 million countersuit on the basis that Heard failed to meet the burden of proof regarding the statements made by Depp's former attorney. Heard's legal team also referenced the judge's ruling to dismiss Depp's request for a summary judgment, noting that it can be reasonably concluded that Waldman acted with "actual malice" by making the statements because he knew nothing of Depp and Heard's marriage.

Misogynist backlash to the Heard/Depp trial is bait to lure white men to the "great replacement"

Once you've got these guys on board with lies painting feminism as a conspiracy against men, it's a short jump to convincing them feminism is also a conspiracy against the white race. Not only are young married men still foisting the majority of domestic duties on their wives, but the percentage of men who openly long to have a housewife rose from 17% in 1994 to a whopping 45% in 2014. Right-wing media is smart to invest this much in the false narratives defending Depp because misogyny is the perfect gateway to lead young white men towards a more expansive constellation of reactionary politics. In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York that left 10 people dead, there's been a great deal of attention paid to the "great replacement" conspiracy theory that inspired the alleged shooter, and how it's been mainstreamed by the right-wing press. This aspect of the conspiracy theory was on full display at the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Hungary over the weekend, in which "traditional" family structures and curtailing reproductive rights were held up as strategies to fight back against this mythical war on white Christians. Last week it was revealed that the Daily Wire, which is shaping up to be a real competitor against Fox News, has also been spending thousands of dollars in social media ads bashing Heard.