The London lawsuit brought by Hollywood star Johnny Depp to the tabloid The Sun who presented him as an abusive husband throws a harsh light on his life and the couple he formed with Amber Heard.
But new testimony brings a new dimension to this trial. According to the caretaker of the building where Amber lived, Elon Musk “might have hit“the actress. The ex-wife of Johnny Depp would have left his apartment in 2016”with cuts and bruises“Moments after the founder of Tesla left the building, Trinity Esparza told court, whose words were relayed by the Sun.
“Elon Musk left the building, then Mrs. Heard came down and had visible marks on her“said the concierge at the luxurious Los Angeles resort, adding:”I don’t know where the brands came from, but she had them“.
“She had three small round bruises on the left side of her neck and two bandages on her arm. She also had a slight mark on the left cheek“Trinity Esparza claimed. Johnny Depp and Elon Musk would have” hung on “very soon after Amber left the actor.
“Physical and psychological” violence
The star of “Pirate of the Caribbean”, 57, has been suing since Tuesday the British newspaper and its publishing company NGN for having accused him in April 2018 of being an abusive husband, which he strongly denies.
In his defense, the newspaper invokes 14 accusations of violence made by his ex-wife, which date back to the years 2013-2016. The couple, who met in 2011 on the set of “Rhum Express”, divorced after less than two years of a stormy marriage in early 2017.
The 34-year-old actress then spoke of “years” of violence “physical and psychological“, accusations strongly contested by Johnny Depp.
In the divorce proceedings, Amber Heard had withdrawn her complaint and Johnny Depp had paid her seven million dollars, which the actress had paid to associations.
Under the rolling fire of questions from NGN’s lawyer, Sasha Wass, the actor found himself forced to explain his excesses, alcohol, drugs from adolescence, and to return to the incidents that have marked the life of the couple he formed with Amber Heard.
The very choice of having had this trial divided specialists in the sector. “It was extremely ill-advised to initiate these lawsuits,” said press law lawyer Mark Stephens of Howard Kennedy.
Expose a difficult divorce to such scrutiny “is the pinnacle of stupidity or hubris“, he declared to the AFP.
“Impact permanent”
Conversely, his sister Emily Cox, of the Stewart cabinet believes that he had no choice. In “the internet age”, do not prosecute these serious charges against him “would no doubt have affected his career far more significantly than the details of his life that the public sees today“she said in the Daily Telegraph.
Unlike in the past, “attacks of this magnitude nowadays have a permanent impact unless they are attacked in court“, she believes.
Hearing after hearing, every incident, up to the most scabrous, is scrutinized, Johnny Depp relentlessly contesting the charges of domestic violence, his lawyer accusing Amber Heard of having built a case against Johnny Depp, “a kind of insurance for later”.
Videos, photos, sound recordings, the court was immersed in the heart of the couple’s privacy.
“De Cendrillon”, pretty fairytale princess, “I became Quasimodo in 0.6 seconds without having anything to say“, he said on Friday, referring to the hunchback character of Victor Hugo’s” Notre-Dame de Paris “.
He claimed that it was Amber Heard, herself, who he believed used drugs and alcohol, who was looking for a fight in a chronic fashion and was trying to avoid and flee conflict as much as possible.
Johnny Depp accuses his ex-wife of violence, accusing him for example of having caused him a major cut on his finger with a bottle of vodka, which the actress denies.
The trial is scheduled to last another two weeks, with the testimony of two former companions of Johnny Depp, the American actresses Winona Ryder and French Vanessa Paradis, then that of Amber Heard in person.
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