James Franco and Elon Musk to testify at Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial

It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Johnny Depp might walk down the aisle again, someday. Yet, after how his first two marriages turned out, no one would blame the Dark Shadows star if he skipped matrimony for the rest of his days. Johnny’s first attempts at married life have not worked. His first marriage to Lori Depp ended right as his career was taking off, and his failed marriage to Amber Heard is the subject of headlines and legal briefs. Here’s what you need to know:

lost his libel trial against the Sun last summer, having sued the London paper for calling him a “wife beater” in a 2018 article. He said the charge was a lie and accused his “sociopathic” ex-wife of all the violence in their marriage. (During the London trial, Heard claimed that Depp was always the aggressor and any response from her was to defend herself.)“Johnny’s team had a certain strategy in going to the UK to sue the Sun,” a source close to Heard’s team told The Post.

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Johnny Depp was accused of being a "wife-beater" to his ex-wife Amber Heard by a British publication back in 2018. The court case went to trial in 2020, where the claims were deemed "substantially true". Since then, the Pirates of the Caribbean star has been shunned from the film industry while he works through a continuing defamation case.

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Johnny Depp, 58, is getting ready to face off in court against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, 35 — who he’s suing for $50 million in a defamation lawsuit that claims that Amber “destroyed” his career by penning an article in The Washington Post in 2018 about being a survivor of “sexual violence.” In court documents obtained by HollywoodLife, the jilted exes listed in their Exhibit List a text message conversation from 2013 between Johnny and his friend, actor Paul Bettany, 50. In the texts, the two actors discuss “drowning” Amber to ensure that she is “not a witch” — and their private messages are now set to be read out loud during the trial. The trial set to begin on April 11, 2022, in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Johnny Depp has suffered a loss ahead of the long-delayed trial for his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard and this loss has set up a defense strategy for her legal team.

Johnny Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, can argue to a jury that she should be protected from a libel lawsuit because her 2018 op-ed on domestic violence deals with a matter of public interest, a judge ruled Thursday.

Less than a month before the long delayed trial in Johnny Depp’s multimillion defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard is set to start, the former Pirates of the Caribbean star took a hit today in his efforts to hobble his ex-wife’s defense and $100 million countersuit.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Johnny Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, can argue to a jury that she should be protected from a libel lawsuit because her 2018 op-ed on domestic violence deals with a matter of public interest, a judge ruled Thursday.Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia after The Washington Post published her opinion piece.

Johnny Depp against allegations of domestic assault by his ex-wife Amber Heard.The director, who worked with Depp on 1990 romantic comedy film Cry-Baby, brought up the actor while discussing his views on “cancel culture” among Hollywood stars.Speaking to The New York Times, Waters said: “There are people I would like to cancel, but at the same time I’m saying it humorously. I’m not going to go through each person who’s been cancelled and say what I think, but I never saw Johnny Depp act negatively to a woman in my entire life – and I did drugs and got drunk with him.”The director believes “practically every artist would be cancelled” retroactively, although he makes an exception for J.K. Rowling.“I have a thing about who I would cancel: J.K.

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Johnny Depp, 58, and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, 35, are getting ready to duke it out in court again, over a $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny against Amber in March 2019. According to court documents obtained by HollywoodLife, the upcoming showdown, which is taking place in a Fairfax County, Virginia, courtroom, will include communication that took place between the two and various celebrities, including Aquaman actor, Jason Momoa, 42, and Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, 56.

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Johnny Depp keeps his head down while leaving out the back door of The Troubadour in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are assembling their witnesses.

There likely won’t be a red carpet rolled out in front of the Fairfax County courthouse, but some big names are coming to Johnny Depp’s now $100 million defamation battle with ex-wife Amber Heard when the long delayed trial starts next month.