Depp vs. Heard and other celebrities who faced each other in court

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and even Michael Jackson and Britney Spears are part of the list of the most notorious trials. / Courtesy

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Fame, love and excesses have never been a good combination. Great personalities from the entertainment industry have starred in monumental roles that have even been broadcast on television… and no, the trial of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp has not been the only one to reach this extreme. There is not much time between scandal and scandal, but each of them has something in common: abuse, in all its contexts.

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This was the case in the trial between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for the custody of their six children. A separation that began in 2016 and ended in 2019, but has not yet been fully resolved, since in May of last year the 57-year-old actor managed to have joint custody, losing it just two months later. But why was the legal battle between the two actors so famous? It is a clear example that what starts badly ends badly.

Many people remember how the relationship between Jolie and Pitt began: they met on the set of the film Sr. and Ms. Smith, and by then he was married to Jennifer Aniston, but that changed when Pitt fell in love with Angelina and decided to get a divorce so he could be with her. The relationship between Jolie and Pitt lasted 12 years, but they had only been married for two years when Angelina asked for a divorce from her, something that no one expected.

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The reason: Pitt was having serious problems with alcohol and Jolie could not stand the situations that both she and her children had to go through. Even in an interview that the actress gave to the medium Infobae, confessed that he feared for the safety of his entire family. “I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the ones I had to take lightly. I had a hard time being in a position where I felt I had to separate myself from the father of my children, ”she assured Jolie. The legal battle between the two celebrities went viral, it was not televised, but millions of people followed the step by step of this confrontation, which is still going on.

Another of the most controversial trials in the entertainment industry was that of actress Ashley Judd against former film producer Harvey Weinstein. A legal battle that came at a tense moment with the rise of the #MeToo movement, which served to lower Weinstein from the pedestal he was on and give him 23 years in prison for the multiple abuses and harassment that he perpetuated on several women, including Judd. .

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In the lawsuit that the actress filed against the former producer, she claimed to have lost several professional opportunities and power over her career for having rejected sexual abuse by him. As Ashley reveals in the lawsuit, Weinstein tried to go overboard with her at a work meeting they had around 1997. Clearly, the actress flatly refused any type of sexual approach with him, to which she responded with threats, assuring her that It would destroy his career.

“My career opportunities, after being smeared by Harvey Weinstein, were significantly reduced… My career was harmed because I rejected Mr. Weinstein’s sexual advances. I know this to be a fact,” Judd said in an interview with the show. Good Morning Americafrom the ABC television channel.

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The case was controversial, because it was part of the multiple lawsuits that would bring down one of the most powerful personalities in all of Hollywood, at the hands of the Time’s Up and Me Too movements, and although many claimed that the actress’ intention was clearly economic, he clarified in an interview that the only thing he wanted was for Weinstein to “be accountable to justice” and that all the money he received from the former producer would be donated to the aforementioned movements.

The most mediatic and controversial recent legal battle, apart from the one starring Depp and Heard, is undoubtedly that of Britney Spears. The artist lasted 13 years under the tutelage of her father, who seemed more like a captivity. She had no autonomy over her finances, her appearance or her personal life, everything was controlled by him.

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The ruling came on November 12, 2021. “As of today, the conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Spears is terminated. And this is the order of the court”, sentenced the judge.

One of the most remembered cases is the trial of the doctor Conrad Murray for the death of Michael Jackson. At that time, several videos were published on social networks and news about the trial that Murray faced as the only person accused of the artist’s death. He was accused of manslaughter in the case of a drug overdose, taking into account that he was Jackson’s personal doctor and the one in charge of supplying all his medicines.

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“I cried because, for once, the world was able to hear some of the facts that this matter refers to; a lot of facts that were suppressed, a lot of which was denied to me and my lawyers couldn’t present at my trial,” physician Conrad Murray said on NBC’s Today show in 2013. The trial that same year had 330 evidence, 49 defense witnesses and lasted six weeks, while Michael’s fans called for justice. This was not the only trial that put Jackson in the spotlight, even after he passed away.

In life he faced several accusations of abuse of minors with strong testimonies from his alleged victims. According to BBC News, “in 2005, Jackson was found not guilty of sexually abusing a child under the age of 13. More than 10 years earlier, in 1993, he had been investigated for the same crime and the case was settled out of court.” Although he was later acquitted, the accusation haunted him throughout his artistic career, and many continue to wonder if he was actually an abuser behind the king of pop.

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