ONTD Original: The Complete History of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

September 14, 2009: Heard is arrested for allegedly grabbing and hitting her girlfriend, Tasya Van Ree. Nonetheless, Van Ree says that Hears was “wrongfully arrested.” She denies that Heard assaulted her and calls the incident “misinterpreted and over-sensationalized.” Fees are by no means introduced in opposition to Heard.

Late 2011 or early 2012: Depp, then 48, and Heard, then 25, start a romantic relationship whereas selling their movie.

June 19, 2012: Depp and his associate of 14 years, Vanessa Paradis, announce their breakup.

December 2012 – April 2013: Depp admits to abusing alcohol and ache treatment. He has a interval of about 160 days of sobriety earlier than he admits to “falling off the wagon” earlier than the primary alleged incident of bodily abuse.

March 2013: The primary alleged incident of bodily abuse happens. Heard claims that Depp slaps her 3 times and knocks her to the ground of their Los Angeles house after she makes a joke about one among his tattoos. She claims to have textual content messages from him by which he apologizes for turning into “the monster.”

Depp claims to not keep in mind the dialog and categorically denies hitting Heard.

March twenty second, 2013: In an altercation that Depp refers to in texts to Amber because the “disco massacre,” Depp allegedly drinks whiskey and makes use of cocaine. He accuses her of getting an affair with a male buddy. He then allegedly backhands Heard whereas carrying a number of heavy rings, putting her on the mouth and enamel. He admits to then eradicating a portray made by her former girlfriend, Tasya van Ree, from the wall. Head claims that he tries to gentle it on hearth. She additionally claims that he hits her so arduous that blood from her lip lands on the wall. Depp, nonetheless, claims that he was attempting to take away the portray as a courtesy and that Heard had an “excessive response.”

Heard and Depp posed for this {photograph} after the alleged incident. Heard claims that she is hiding her bruise along with her hair. Depp claims that the picture exhibits that Heard doesn’t have a cut up lip or any facial accidents.

Heard initially acknowledged that this incident occurred on March eighth. Nonetheless, when proven the aforementioned picture by which she doesn’t seem to have facial bruising or a cut up lip, she acknowledged that it really occurred on March twenty second. Heard claims that she misremembered as a result of there have been a number of incidents of bodily abuse in March. Depp claims this error as proof of her fabrications.

She additionally mistook this incident with one earlier within the 12 months by which Depp wrote “Tasya Van Pee” over one among Van Ree’s work.

March twenty second and twenty third, 2013: Heard texts her mom, “He’s [Depp is] nuts, mother. Violent and loopy. I’m heartbroken that that is who I like.”

A while in March: Sooner or later in March, Heard additionally claims that Depp dangled her Yorkshire terrier, Pistol, out of a shifting automobile window and made howling sounds. Depp denies this.

June 2013: Depp allegedly will get excessive on cocaine and turns into offended when one among Heard’s feminine buddies flirts along with her. He allegedly grabs the girl’s wrists and threatens to interrupt them for touching Heard. He allegedly throws glasses at Heard, rips open the entrance of her costume to go looking her for narcotics, and damages the trailer by which they had been staying. Depp denies this.

June 2013: Heard composes an unsent e mail by which she writes that Depp damage her bodily. She writes that she doesn’t know whether or not she shall be coping with him or “the monster” introduced out by his use of medicine and alcohol. She additionally refers to him as “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

Could 2014: Heard claims that whereas she and Depp are on a aircraft from Boston to L.A., he confronts her a couple of romantic scene that she filmed with James Franco and accuses her of getting an affair. She claims that he throws objects at her, calls her a “slut” and a “whore,” and accuses her of having fun with having intercourse on movie units, and makes different vulgar feedback about her.

When she alters seats to get away from him, he allegedly provocatively pushes a chair at her and taunts her by shouting the title “James Franco.” She claims that he slaps her, then kicks her within the again as she tries to stroll away from him, inflicting her to fall to the ground. He allegedly throws his boot at her whereas she is on the ground. Then, he allegedly passes out within the toilet for the remainder of the flight.

Depp later apologized to her through textual content message, writing, “I do not know why or what occurred however I’ll by no means do it once more.” His assistant, Stephen Deuters, additionally texts Heard and appears to verify that Depp kicked Heard. Heard additionally signifies of their textual content alternate that Depp has bodily assaulted her at the least three different instances.

Depp claims that he solely gave her a “playful faucet” on her backside along with his foot and when she reacted badly he took a pillow into the toilet and fell asleep there. He denies any bodily or verbal abuse. Depp would admit later in courtroom that he may need handed out on the flight.

August 2014: On his personal island within the Bahamas the place Depp is detoxing from his ache tablet dependency, Depp allegedly pushes Heard, slaps her, grabs her by the hair, and kicks a door so arduous that it splinters. Depp denies this.

A while in 2014: Depp and Heard get engaged.

January 2015: Of their resort room in Tokyo, Japan, Depp allegedly slaps Heard, grabs her by the hair, and kneels on her again. Depp claims that that is unimaginable as a result of his kids had been with him, so he would by no means have acted this fashion. Nonetheless, whereas his kids had been apparently staying with them, the choose in his libel case indicated that the kids had been in a unique room on the time of this alleged incident. Heard and Depp attended the movie premiere of Mortdecai in Tokyo after the incident and she or he wore a backless costume. She claims that she checked her again “obsessively” to ensure her accidents weren’t seen. He claims that she by no means had accidents to her again and denies the abuse.

February 2015: Depp and Heard get married.

March 2015: Essentially the most extreme of the alleged abuse takes place over three days in an remoted rental home in Australia, the place Heard claims that Depp places her “in concern of her life” whereas he’s “affected by manic despair, bipolar dysfunction and a sample of repeated, drug-induced psychosis and violence.”

Heard claims that Depp, who’s allegedly consuming and taking ecstasy, places her by a “hostage state of affairs” by which he shoves her right into a ping pong desk that collapses below her. He allegedly throws bottles by the a glass door, breaking the panes and leaving glass shards in all places. Depp then allegedly grabs her and rips off her nightgown, leaving her nude, barefoot, and lined in alcohol and glass.

Then, she claims that he grabs her by the hair and chokes her in opposition to the fridge within the kitchen. When she tries to face up, she retains sliding on the glass shards on the ground. Depp allegedly throws her physique away from him and she or he tries to run away as he throws objects and alcohol at her.

She additionally claims that at one level throughout these three days, Depp grabs her by the neck and collarbone and slams her in opposition to the countertop. She struggles to brace herself on the countertop to alleviate the stress in opposition to her neck, however her arms and ft stored slipping on the spilled alcohol and glass. In consequence, she says that she nonetheless has slash marks and scars on her forearms and the bottoms of her ft.

Sooner or later, Depp, excessive on ecstasy, allegedly severed his personal fingertip and used the bloody stump to write down graffiti on the partitions. Heard claims that she was lastly in a position to escape him and lock herself on this bed room:

She claims that when she emerges, she sees that Depp has ravaged the home, together with writing graffiti along with his personal blood and leaving chunks of uncooked meat round the home. All advised, he’s confirmed to have induced round $75,000 of harm to the house.

Depp’s model of occasions could be very totally different. He claims that in Australia, Heard “went berserk” when he requested her to signal a postnuptial settlement. She allegedly hurls a vodka bottle at him which shatters on a marble countertop, ricocheting and severing the tip of his finger. He states that if Heard had really been at risk and in want of escape, she might have accomplished so by leaving out the sliding glass door of their bed room, which led to a patio. She additionally had her cellular phone, which he says she might have used to name authorities.

Heard has footage of the alleged scars on her arms and ft. Depp’s attorneys declare that these are self-harm scars that Heard created as a part of her hoax.

March 23, 2015: Depp allegedly hits Heard “arduous and repeatedly.” His safety workers involves them however doesn’t intervene. One of many guards says to Depp, “Boss.” Depp allegedly makes a pushing movement in direction of Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, who was standing by the highest of a flight of stairs. Heard admits that she punched Depp with a closed fist, however claims she did so in protection of her sister.

Depp denies abusing Heard or her sister and insists that Heard was the aggressor.

July 27, 2015: On a practice in Southeast Asia throughout their honeymoon round 3:30 a.m., Depp allegedly hits Heard, pushes her in opposition to the wall, and grabs her by the throat. She writes concerning the altercation in her diary: “Our battle was horrible. Johnny… at one level discovered himself along with his shirt wrapped round my neck. Wonderful to consider (the) precision, co-ordination that required contemplating the shut circumstances… I don’t even know the way I wound up with this large, moderately annoying knot on the again of my head.”

Depp’s safety staff is with them, however his safety guard Malcolm Connolly testifies that they’d not have identified a couple of battle that happened at 3:30 a.m. The couple poses for an image with practice workers. Depp claims that his purple nostril is an harm from Heard.

Thanksgiving Day, 2015: Heard claims that she and Depp have a small argument earlier than their visitors come over to rejoice Thanksgiving. Quickly afterward, they attend a Thanksgiving occasion along with his son, her father, and several other buddies, together with Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson). Depp and Heard take movies of the occasion and could be heard speaking in glad voices in the course of the footage. She claims that when the visitors depart, Depp throws her round a room, throws a wine glass and a glass decanter at her, busts her lip, and leaves her with a knot on the again of her head.

Heard claims that her glad tone of voice on the video is unrelated to the altercation and that she would act regular round their buddies. Depp, nonetheless, claims that this is a sign that Head was faking her abuse.

There are additionally images of Heard mendacity down with Depp’s son that night.

December 2015: In his Los Angeles penthouse, Depp allegedly grabs Amber by the scalp and drags her by the hair by the stairwell, workplace, front room, kitchen, bed room, and visitor room, ripping out clumps of her hair. She claims that he additionally throws a decanter at her, knocks objects across the room, and punches the wall. She says he additionally slaps her, head-butts her, drags her onto a mattress and punches her, breaking the mattress body and threatening to kill her. She states that she feared he was in a blackout state and will unintentionally kill her. He allegedly does all this understanding that she is scheduled to seem on James Corden’s present the following day.

Shortly after the incident, Heard sees a personal nurse named Erin Boerum, who handled each Heard and Depp, about her accidents. Boerum’s notes affirm that Heard had a cut up lip, however Boeurum ‘“briefly regarded on the shopper’s scalp however was unable to visualise haematomas the shopper described.”
Heard claims that she additionally had a black eye, a damaged nostril, and cracked ribs.
She claims that she needed to put on heavy make-up and darkish lipstick to cowl her accidents for James Corden’s present.

Depp claims that her look on the present signifies that Heard was not injured from any abuse. A stylist named Samantha McMillen says that she noticed Heard up shut in good lighting for a considerable time period and didn’t see any accidents on her. Nonetheless, after the present, she says that Heard got here as much as her and mentioned, “Are you able to consider I simply did that present with two black eyes?”

April 21, 2016: Depp allegedly arrives late to Heard’s thirtieth birthday celebration drunk and excessive. As soon as the visitors had been gone, she confronts him about arriving late and he allegedly throws a magnum of champagne at her, throws a glass at her, pushes her onto the mattress, grabs her by the hair and shoves her to the ground, and throws and breaks objects round their rental.

The subsequent day, feces is discovered on their mattress. Depp claims that Heard or one among her buddies defecated on it. Heard claims that her canine has bowel points and is probably going the wrongdoer.

Depp denies the allegations and claims that he let the house after Heard acquired offended about his tardiness.

Unknown: At an unknown date (I swear I’ve regarded in all places and might’t determine what date this occurred), Heard and Depp had an altercation involving a rest room door.

Heard claims that she was attempting to flee Depp’s abuse by closing the toilet door to get away from him. She claims that he was forcing the door open and scraped her toes whereas doing so. She remembers hitting him “as a response to the door factor.”

Depp claims that he was attempting to flee Heard’s abuse and that she kicked the door into his head, intentionally hitting him.

Could 20, 2016: Johnny’s mom, Betty Sue Palmer, dies after a protracted sickness.

Could 21, 2016: At 8:06 p.m., Amber is allegedly arguing with Depp and texts their neighbor, Raquel Pennington, and asks her to return over. Depp allegedly winds his arm up like a pitcher and throws his iPhone arduous at Heard’s head, inflicting an harm to her face. She claims that she is on the telephone with a buddy along with her buddy iO Tillet Wright whereas Depp grabs, throws, and shatters varied objects round their house. She claims that Johnny grabs her telephone as she screams, “Name the cops!” to her buddy as Depp continued to strike her.

Pennington hears Heard and Depp arguing by the closed door. When she enters the house, she says that she sees Depp screaming at Heard whereas Heard cowers. Pennington says she locations her physique between Heard and Depp “to guard her from him.” Depp allegedly slaps her arms away when Pennington held them up in a defensive method.

The LAPD receives a name from Wright at 10:09 p.m. Their log reads, “feminine acknowledged she was on telephone along with her buddy and she or he started screaming at her husband, subj Amber Heard, husband Johnny Heard.”

Johnny’s safety staff, together with a person named Jerry Choose, enter the house. Heard pleads with them to assist her, however they don’t intervene. Choose says, “Boss, please,” however Depp doesn’t cease berating Heard. Pennington and one other buddy, Joshua Drew, take Heard to their house for defense. Pennington makes use of her telephone to take the extensively seen images of Heard’s bruised face.

When the LAPD arrive, Depp has already left. Responding officers Melissa Saenz and Tyler Hadden testify that Heard was crying however they didn’t discover any accidents to her face. Pennington claims that the officers noticed the harm to the house and supplied to arrest Depp. Nonetheless, the officers deny this and state that they regarded across the house (unclear whether or not the house the place the argument happened or Pennington’s house, the place Heard was positioned) and didn’t see damaged glass or different damaged objects. The police inform her that if she alters her thoughts she will be able to contact them. One of many officers leaves a enterprise card along with her.

Depp denies this incident. He claims that he solely tossed his telephone on the sofa and that it didn’t hit Heard. He claims that Heard began yelling at him after he walked throughout the room, which is when his safety guards got here in.

Heard claims that Depp affords her cash if she agrees to not not report the abuse, however she decides to file for divorce very first thing Monday morning.

Could 22, 2016: Amber texts nurse Erin Boerum, “It’s okay however he was fully delusional and crazed. Hit me within the face a number of instances whereas on the telephone to iO [Tillett Wright].”

The constructing concierge, Cornelius Harrell, says he doesn’t see a bruise on Heard when she picks up a package deal from him.

Isaac Baruch, one among Depp’s buddies, says he sees Heard however doesn’t discover a bruise on her.

Heard exchanges texts with Elon Musk by which she tells him that she goes to get a restraining order in opposition to Depp. Musk affords to rearrange 24/7 safety for her.

Sooner or later, Heard poses for this Instagram image along with her hair overlaying the suitable aspect of her face the place the bruise is claimed to be.

Round 11:00 p.m., James Franco visits Amber at her house. CCTV footage exhibits her moving into the elevator with him and turning her face from the digital camera. The footage doesn’t clearly present whether or not she has bruising on her face. Once they get to the penthouse, Franco allegedly asks, “What occurred to you?”

Depp alleges that Heard was having an affair with Franco.

Could 23, 2016: Heard recordsdata for divorce from Depp, citing irreconcilable variations and requesting $50,000 per thirty days in spousal help. She additionally obtains an emergency momentary restraining order in opposition to him. Her petition requests safety for her canine, Pistol, however the choose rejects this. In her courtroom paperwork, Amber states, “In the course of the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and bodily abusive to me,” and “Johnny has had a long-held and widely-acknowledged private and non-private historical past of drug and alcohol abuse.” Her petition consists of pictures of accidents to her face, allegedly brought on by Depp within the altercation two days beforehand.

In response to Heard’s allegations and divorce petition, Depp recordsdata a memorandum by which he denies the abuse. His paperwork state, “Amber is making an attempt to safe a untimely monetary decision by alleging abuse. Her present software for a short lived restraining order alongside along with her monetary requests seems to be in response to unfavourable media consideration she acquired earlier this week after submitting for divorce.”

Heard is photographed on the courthouse with a bruise on her proper cheekbone.

Pennington gives an announcement saying, “Many instances over the previous few years, Amber has confided and complained to me about Johnny’s abusing her, each bodily and verbally.”

Could 27, 2016: The LAPD confirms that it responded to a name for help at Heard and Depp’s residence. The division releases this assertion:

“On Could 21, 2016, officers responded to a home incident radio name. The individual reporting the crime didn’t insist on a report and no report was warranted. There was no proof of any crime. A criminal offense didn’t happen so the officers left the scene and left a enterprise card.”

LAPD sergeant Marlon Marrache additionally says, “if there had been any indicators of abuse, officers would have performed an investigation, no matter what Heard mentioned had occurred.”

June 1, 2016: Individuals journal obtains extra images of Heard’s face lined with accidents allegedly brought on by Depp.

August 12, 2016: TMZ obtains video of Depp slamming cupboard doorways, slamming objects on a desk, grabbing Amber’s telephone, and throwing a bottle of wine and a glass. Depp claims that he was reacting in grief to the loss of life of his mom.

August 13, 2016: Amber testifies below oath in a deposition that Depp was bodily abusive to her. Below questioning type Depp’s attorneys, she admits that she generally threw objects at Depp, however insists she did so solely in self-defense: “I did generally use bodily power to defend myself after I was being attacked, or overpowered, or felt threatened. I did, at instances, throw objects at Johnny.”

She calls his alter-ego “The Monster” that comes out throughout abuse: “Johnny and I discuss with his different persona, the a part of him that’s current when he beats me up — we name that the monster and have known as [that] the monster for a few years.”

She additionally states that she heard from two folks that Depp pushed supermodel Kate Moss down a flight of stairs.

The total deposition is just not on-line, however there are a couple of clips.

August 16, 2016: Depp and Heard settle the divorce earlier than their civil trial. As a part of the settlement, Heard withdraws her request for a home violence order of safety and her request for spousal help. She accepts a $7 million lump sum, which she pledges to donate to charity.

January 14, 2017: Depp and Heard finalize the divorce. They allegedly signal non-disparagement and non-disclosure agreements. Heard retains their canine and Depp retains his actual property properties. They launch the next joint assertion:

“Our relationship was intensely passionate and at instances risky, however all the time sure by love. Neither occasion has made false accusations for monetary acquire. There was by no means any intent of bodily or emotional hurt.”

Nonetheless, Depp allegedly refuses to present the divorce settlement cash on to Heard. As an alternative, he tries to keep away from paying her by making donations in her title to charity, which Heard claims he’s doing out of spite.

Depp claims that Heard was mendacity about donating her settlement cash to charity. Nonetheless, The Youngsters’s Hospital Los Angeles thanks Heard for donating a sum between $1 million and $4,999,999, indicating that she did make a donation of at the least seven figures.

April 28, 2018: British tabloid newspaper The Solar publishes an article by Dan Wooten that refers to Depp as a “wife-beater.”

June 1, 2018: Depp and his legal professional, Adam Waldman, file a libel lawsuit in opposition to Information Group Newspapers Ltd, which publishes The Solar.

October 2, 2018: Depp offers an interview to British GQ by which he denies the abuse allegations in opposition to him:

“The final three or 4 years has felt like a perverse state of affairs that was inflicted on me. It hurts.” 

“I might really feel individuals take a look at me in a different way, due to the accusations in direction of you…. In the end, the reality will come out in all of this and I shall be standing on the suitable aspect of the roaring rapids. I hope different individuals shall be too. I do know the reality.”

December 18, 2018: Heard writes an op-ed for The Washington Publish by which she decries the remedy of abused girls. She doesn’t explicitly state that she was abused, however she does write:

“I grew to become a public determine representing home abuse, and I felt the complete power of our tradition’s wrath for ladies who communicate out.”

She doesn’t discuss with Johnny Depp by title within the editorial.

March 1, 2019: Depp and Waldman file a $50 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard because of the WaPo op-ed. His lawsuit paperwork state:

“The op-ed trusted the central premise that Ms. Heard was a home abuse sufferer and that Mr. Depp perpetrated home violence in opposition to her.” He additional claims that Heard “is just not a sufferer of home abuse, she is a perpetrator.” He states that her abuse accusations had been an “elaborate hoax to generate constructive publicity,” that she painted on her bruises, and that the claims had been “conclusively refuted by two separate responding cops, a litany of impartial third-party witnesses, and 87 newly obtained surveillance digital camera movies.”

As a part of the proof in his courtroom filings, Depp submits footage of himself with bruises on his face that he claims had been brought on by Heard. (I don’t suppose these footage are on-line, or, at the least, I couldn’t discover them.)

Depp claims, “She [Heard] hit, punched and kicked me. She additionally repeatedly and continuously threw objects into my physique and head.” He additionally claims a neighbor gave a declaration saying “he repeatedly interacted with Ms. Heard, at shut vary, with out make-up, and completely unmarked and unhurt within the days between Could 22 and Could 27, 2016” and didn’t see bruise son her face. The lawsuit additionally claims that two cops “testified below oath that they carefully noticed Ms. Heard’s face in good gentle on Could 21, 2016 and noticed no indicators of any harm.”

In response, Heard recordsdata a 300-page movement to dismiss the lawsuit. In her movement, she alleges a number of incidents of abuse by the hands of Depp. She writes, “Johnny usually wouldn’t keep in mind his delusional and violent conduct after he got here out of his drunk or medicated states… As a result of I beloved Johnny, I had believed his a number of guarantees that he might and would get higher. I used to be improper.”

She consists of picture proof of bruises and scars, clumps of hair apparently torn from Heard’s head and footage of property harm allegedly brought on by Depp. She claims that he threatened a number of instances to kill her.

All advised, Heard alleges 14 whole incidents of abuse by Depp.

January 2020: The Day by day Mail publishes telephone recordings from 2015 by which Heard and Depp talk about incidents of bodily violence between one another. Depp admits to hitting Depp and Depp appears to verify that they’ve been bodily with one another.

The entire transcript is obtainable at The Day by day Mail, which is a banned supply, however I’ll hyperlink within the feedback.

Some key takeaways:

• Heard admits to hitting Depp however denies punching him.
• Depp claims that he tried to go away.
• Depp says, “We’ll kill one another, or fucking worse.”
• Heard admits to being bodily with Depp: “I am unable to promise you I will not get bodily once more. God, I f—ing generally get so mad I lose it.”
• Heard additionally appears to confess to throwing objects at Depp.
• Heard accuses Depp of hitting her: “You hit again. So do not act like you do not f**king take part.”
• Depp admits to pushing Heard: “I pushed you.”
• Heard admits to beginning a bodily battle with Depp.
• Depp appears to verify the incident in Australia: “Look what I did in Australia, look what I completed.”
• Heard states that she feared Depp would kill her.

Then is the second audio clip, which has shaped the crux of Depp’s argument that Heard is the perpetrator of the abuse as an alternative of himself.

The second audio tape begins in the course of Heard’s sentence. She is telling Depp that she is smaller than him and that if he tries to argue that they’ve a good battle, nobody would consider him.

Depp, his attorneys, and his supporters use this audio as proof that Depp is the home violence sufferer, not Heard, and that Heard is telling Depp that he is not going to be believed as a result of he’s a person.

-Depp’s legal professionals say: “These tapes containing Amber Heard’s chilling confessions of violence additional expose and destroy her abuse hoax.”

-Heard’s legal professionals say: “Anybody aware of the dynamics of home abuse would instantly acknowledge what is admittedly occurring right here. All through the prolonged tape recording that Johnny Depp vindictively turned over to the press, Ms Heard repeatedly makes an attempt to placate Mr. Depp, ignore his accusations, and power him to acknowledge what was actually occurring of their relationship

July 7, 2020: Depp’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Information Group Newspapers Ltd/The Solar begins.

Depp’s courtroom paperwork paint an image of him because the sufferer of an unhealthy and abusive relationship on the a part of Heard. He claims that Heard love bombed him, researched his pursuits, lied about having seen his movies, and preyed on him. He characterizes her as “a calculating, recognized borderline persona; she is sociopathic; she is a narcissist; and she or he is totally emotionally dishonest.” He claims that they noticed a wedding counselor and that the counselor confirmed to Depp that Heard is “borderline, poisonous narcissistic persona dysfunction and is a sociopath”. He additionally claims that Heard known as him “a fats outdated man” and a “horrible father.”

In an announcement to the courtroom, his former girlfriend Winona Ryder denies that Depp was abusive to her:

• “The concept that he’s an extremely violent individual is the farthest factor from the Johnny I knew and beloved. I can’t wrap my head round these accusations. He was by no means, by no means violent in direction of me. He was by no means, by no means abusive in any respect in direction of me. He has by no means been violent or abusive in direction of anyone I’ve seen…I don’t need to name anybody a liar however from my expertise of Johnny, it’s unimaginable to consider that such horrific allegations are true.”

His ex-partner Vanessa Paradis additionally denies the allegations:

• “By way of all of those years I’ve identified Johnny to be a sort, attentive, beneficiant and non-violent individual… I’ve seen that these outrageous statements have been actually distressing and likewise induced harm to his profession as a result of sadly individuals have gone on believing these false details.”

Sean Bett, one among Depp’s bodyguard, testified that he noticed Heard throw bottles and glasses at Depp when she was drunk and that Depp didn’t retaliate. Bett claims that he has by no means seen Depp be violent.

One other image of Heard with a bruised face is revealed on the trial.

Depp’s buddy of greater than 40 years, Isaac Baruch, claims that the photographs are “phony baloney” and that he noticed Heard shut up with out make-up and she or he didn’t have bruising. Baruch does admit that Depp has given him at the least $100,000.

Tara Roberts, the property supervisor of Depp’s personal island, testifies that Heard is “a thrower— somebody who threw projectiles.” She additionally claims that she noticed Heard “lunge violently at Johnny, pull his hair, and commit different aggressive bodily acts in opposition to him.” Roberts states that Heard would berate Depp, together with insulting his weight and his profession. Roberts additionally claims to have seen a purple gash on Depp’s nostril that he advised her was because of Heard throwing a can of paint thinner at him.

August 2020: Heard countersues Depp for $100 million. Her allegations embrace that:

• Depp tried to have her changed on the movie Aquaman and eliminated as a L’Oreal spokeswoman.
• Employed many bot accounts to wage a social media hate marketing campaign in opposition to her.
• Depp is utilizing these lawsuits to maintain himself related
• Depp intimidated and threatened witnesses

Heard’s sister, Whitney, states in courtroom paperwork that she “felt sick” when she discovered that Heard was engaged to Depp, telling Heard, “placing a hoop on her finger was not going to cease him hitting her.”

The lawsuit additionally reveals a number of of Depp’s derogatory texts about Heard to his buddies, together with Christian Carino (Woman Gaga’s ex-boyfriend) and actor Paul Bettany. 

November 2, 2020: Depp loses his lawsuit in opposition to Information Group Newspapers Ltd. The choose guidelines that The Solar’s description of Depp as a “wife-beater” was “considerably true” and that the “nice majority” of the allegations in opposition to Depp have been confirmed. The decision additionally doesn’t settle for the characterization of Heard as a “gold-digger.” The choose finds 12 of the 14 allegations Heard made in opposition to Depp to be demonstrably true.

Depp’s attorneys say, “This resolution is as perverse as it’s bewildering… Most troubling is the choose’s reliance on the testimony of Amber Heard, and corresponding disregard of the mountain of counter-evidence from cops, medical practitioners, her personal former assistant, different unchallenged witnesses and an array of documentary proof which fully undermined the allegations, level by level… We hope that in distinction to this case, the continued libel proceedings in America are equitable, with each events offering full disclosure moderately than one aspect strategically cherry-picking what proof can and can’t be relied upon.”

November 6, 2020: Depp reveals that he has been requested by Warner Bros. to give up his function as Grindelwald within the Improbable Beasts movies. He agrees to give up the collection.

November 26 2020: A U.Ok. courtroom denies Depp’s petition for an attraction and orders him to pay The Solar’s authorized charges.

March 2021: A better U.Ok. courtroom of appeals denies Depp’s attraction once more.

In case you are from Buzzfeed or another publication that frequently rips off ONTD, you may have my permission to steal this.

Keep tuned or an upcoming submit that may analyze the accusations in opposition to Heard as an abuser.

I eliminated the banned supply. Sorry, mods!