{"id":1431238,"date":"2022-04-11T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431238"},"modified":"2022-04-11T13:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:44:44","slug":"johnny-depp-amber-heard-set-to-face-off-in-defamation-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-depp-amber-heard-set-to-face-off-in-defamation-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp, Amber Heard Set To Face Off In Defamation Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnny-depp-amber-heard-set-to-face-off-in-defamation-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/pjimage-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard will face each other in court once again this week, this time in a Virginia courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>The trial involves Depp\u2019s $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard over her 2018 Washington Post op-ed claiming to be the victim of domestic violence. Heard didn\u2019t name Depp in the column, but it soon became clear she was referring to him. Depp has vehemently denied the allegations and provided evidence that he says shows Heard made up some of the abuse allegations. His attorneys also produced a recording of Heard admitting to hitting Depp.<\/p>\n<p>Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million. On Sunday, Heard posted a message to Instagram, in which she said that after the trial she hopes she and Depp \u201ccan move on,\u201d and that she has \u201calways maintained a love for Johnny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go offline for the next several weeks. As you may know, I\u2019ll be in Virginia, where I face my ex-husband Jonny Depp in court. Johnny is suing me for an op-ed I wrote in the Washington Post, in which I recounted my experience of violence and domestic abuse. I never named him, rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking out against men in power. I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny. I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world. At this time, I recognize the ongoing support I\u2019ve been fortunate to receive throughout these years, and in these coming weeks I will be leaning on it more than ever,\u201d Heard wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Heard continuing to \u201cpay that price\u201d for speaking out, she continues to receive roles even after admitting to perpetrating domestic violence against Depp. Meanwhile, Depp has lost roles due to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amber-heards-attorney-now-claims-actress-was-raped-during-relationship-with-johnny-depp-wont-name-perpetrator\">reported<\/a>, Heard\u2019s attorneys now claim the actress was raped during her relationship with Depp, though they did not name the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Elaine Charlson Bredehoft made the allegations as she attempted to keep cameras out of the courtroom for the upcoming trial regarding Depp\u2019s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Courthouse News Service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/attorney-says-heard-was-raped-during-relationship-with-depp\/\">reported<\/a>. Bredehoft claimed Heard was the victim of rape during\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0before her marriage to Depp.<\/p>\n<p>Bredehoft did not say Depp was the rapist, just as Heard did not specifically say in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed that the actor was the one who abused her, but both claims have led to vehement denials by Depp and his attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Chew, Depp\u2019s attorney, said the allegations from Bredehoft were ridiculous and false, calling Heard \u201ca liar.\u201d Chew told the judge in the case that Depp does not object to allowing cameras in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Heard has also attempted to get Depp\u2019s defamation lawsuit dismissed multiple times, to no avail. The Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-refuses-to-dismiss-johnny-depps-libel-lawsuit-against-amber-heard\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in October that Judge Penney Azcarate denied Heard\u2019s last-ditch attempt to get the defamation lawsuit against her thrown out. It was the third attempt by the \u201cAquaman\u201d actress to get the case dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Heard\u2019s attorneys argued that the findings in Depp\u2019s U.K. defamation lawsuit \u2014 which he lost \u2014 should be followed here in the states. In August, Azcarate also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfaxcounty.gov\/circuit\/sites\/circuit\/files\/assets\/documents\/pdf\/opinions\/cl-2019-2911-depp-ii-v-heard-08172021.pdf\">ruled<\/a>\u00a0against Heard, writing at the time that the facts in the current case were not the same as those in the U.K. In that lawsuit, Depp took issue with Heard and a British tabloid that called him a \u201cwife beater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/johnny-depp-loses-libel-case-against-ex-wife-and-british-tabloid-judge-accepts-description-that-hes-a-wife-beater\">reported<\/a>, Depp lost that case, in large part due to the difficulties in proving libel cases. Depp had to prove that he\u00a0<em>didn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0abuse Heard \u2014 essentially he had to prove a negative. And while a judge in the U.K. acknowledged that Depp was able to cast doubt on at least two of Heard\u2019s allegations, the judge said Depp failed to disprove her other 12 allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Depp\u2019s attorneys called the ruling \u201cperverse\u201d and \u201cbewildering,\u201d pointing out the mountain of evidence the judge appeared to have ignored in arriving at his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost troubling is the Judge\u2019s reliance on the testimony of Amber Heard, and corresponding disregard of the mountain of counter-evidence from police officers, medical practitioners, her own former assistant, other unchallenged witnesses and an array of documentary evidence which completely undermined the allegations, point by point. All of this was overlooked,\u201d said Depp\u2019s attorney Jenny Afia. \u201cThe judgment is so flawed that it would be ridiculous for Mr. Depp not to appeal this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among that \u201cmountain\u201d of evidence, The Daily Wire previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/listen-actress-amber-heard-admits-to-hitting-johnny-depp-in-shocking-audio\">reported<\/a>, was surveillance videos, eyewitness statements, audio, photos, and more allegedly proving that Depp was the real victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the testimonies comes from Trinity Esparza, who was the concierge at the penthouse where Heard claims Depp hit her in the face. Esparza now questions how Heard received the mark on her face she claimed was from Depp, after reviewing surveillance footage from three days later, when Heard\u2019s sister Whitney pretended to punch her in the face, according to court documents,\u201d The Daily Wire reported.<\/p>\n<p>Further, evidence suggested Heard attacked Depp while the actor was in bed and staged the attacks she claimed he committed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnaware that members of Mr. Depp\u2019s security team (including an 18-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department) were mere feet away, Ms. Heard falsely began yelling, \u2018Stop hitting me, Johnny,\u2019\u201d Depp alleged in court documents. \u201cThe interaction culminated with Ms. Heard making false allegations that Mr. Depp struck her with a cell phone, hit her and destroyed the penthouse. There were multiple eyewitnesses to this hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, Depp\u2019s attorneys presented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/listen-actress-amber-heard-admits-to-hitting-johnny-depp-in-shocking-audio\">audio<\/a>\u00a0of Heard admitting to hitting the \u201cPirates of Caribbean\u201d actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that I didn\u2019t, uh, uh, hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you. Babe, you\u2019re not punched,\u201d Heard tells Depp in the recording. \u201cI don\u2019t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you\u2019re fine. I did not hurt you. I did not punch you. I was hitting you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As to the current lawsuit, Judge Azcarate noted that \u201cthe defamation claim in the U.K. was based on completely different statements than the present case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chew, Depp\u2019s attorney, said Azcarate\u2019s decision \u201cdid not appear to be a close call,\u201d according to Courthouse News.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet also noted that while Heard did not name Depp in her Washington Post op-ed, he lost his role on \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d four days after it was published.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard will face each other in court once again this week, this time in a Virginia courtroom.The trial involves Depp\u2019s $50 million defamation lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}