Johnny Depp is busy making ready for his court docket battle towards ex-wife Amber Heard, which can quickly be coming to a small display screen close to you.
A choose has dominated that “one pool digicam” shall be permitted within the courtroom in order that proceedings will be partially broadcast because the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor wages a $50 million libel lawsuit towards Heard over a newspaper article through which she described being a sufferer of home abuse.
The 58-year-old actor was snapped Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles assembly up in a parking storage along with his authorized counsel, which incorporates Adam Waldman, Benjamin Chew and new rent, Kathleen Zellner, who has famously labored to overturn wrongful convictions all through her profession.
Whereas Heard by no means talked about Depp’s identify within the 2019 Washington Put up op-ed in query, he insists that the article was about him as a result of Heard beforehand alleged that she suffered two black eyes, a damaged nostril and a damaged lip at his fingers throughout a 2015 assault in Los Angeles.
Legal professional Chew, nonetheless, claims that when the LAPD responded to the alleged beating, “they discovered no damage upon Ms. Heard and no disruption to the penthouses.
“Ms. Heard and her associates then fabricated pictures that she used to acquire an ex parte TRO [temporary restraining order] and a $7 million divorce settlement which Ms. Heard falsely testified in London she gave to the ACLU and, extra scandalously, to the Kids’s Hospital of Los Angeles; sick kids with most cancers,” Chew alleged in his submitting.
Again in November, a court docket dominated that the actor may have entry to his ex’s cellphone in an effort to show she doctored pictures of pretend accidents he allegedly gave her.
Depp’s upcoming court docket battle follows his libel swimsuit loss in London towards a newspaper columnist who labeled him a “wife-beater.” In March, Depp was refused permission to enchantment towards the ruling.