FAIRFAX, Va. — After six weeks of grueling and often harrowing testimony, the jury began hearing the closing arguments in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s …
FAIRFAX, Va. — After six weeks of grueling and often harrowing testimony, the jury began hearing the closing arguments in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial Friday morning.
“There is an abuser in this courtroom, but it is not Mr. Depp,” his lawyer Camille Vasquez said. Depp, 58, sued Heard for $50 million over her 2018 essay in which she wrote about facing “our culture’s wrath” as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” He said even though the piece did not name him, it sullied his reputation and cost him eight figures in potential earnings. Heard fired back with a $100 million countersuit, arguing that 2020 statements that she fabricated her domestic abuse claims given to the press by Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman destroyed her career and made her life hell.
