Johnny Depp defamation trial: Amber Heard's personal assistant accuses actress of abusive work environment

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After 13 days of testimony, and more than a dozen witnesses including bodyguards, Hollywood insiders, doctors and accountants, Johnny Depp’s legal team rested their case Tuesday in the actor’s $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.Before resting, the Depp team called forensic accountant Mike Spindler, who said Depp lost tens of millions of dollars as a result of Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed.“I concluded that Mr. Depp suffered lost earnings of approximately $40 million,” Spindler told the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom. The accounting expert was hired by Depp’s team to calculate the actor’s total lost earnings from the piece, in which Heard described herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse, although she did not use Depp’s name.Spindler said he reviewed “accounting records, trial exhibits, deposition and trial testimony, and various other documents and exhibits in connection with the case.” He calculated Depp’s lost earnings by analyzing the period from October 2018 through October 2020, after the op-ed was released.

Amber Heard ditched her original PR team and hired a new one just days before the actress is set to take the stand in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial, Fox News Digital can confirm. Heard has hired Shane Communications after ending her contract with Precision Strategies.

Not buying it. Howard Stern criticized Johnny Depp for his “dramatic” testimony in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp was “overacting” when he testified against Amber Heard during the former couple’s defamation trial, calling Depp a “huge narcissist”.Depp is suing Heard for defamation over an opinion piece she wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 about their alleged abusive relationship. Depp’s lawyers have argued that the article falsely implies she was sexually and physically abused by Depp during their marriage.

Howard Stern is calling out Johnny Depp.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard began on Monday 11 April in Fairfax, Virginia following Mr Depp’s lawsuit against his ex-wife in March 2019. Mr Depp said that over time his marriage to Ms Heard had begun to feel like he was ‘in a relationship’ with his mother (Evelyn Hockstein/AP)Mr Depp is arguing that she defamed him in a December 2018 op-ed published in The Washington Post titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change”.

Johnny Depp is once again on the stand.

Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard was shown a photo of Mr Depp asleep on a couch with ice cream spilt across his lap. Mr Depp said he had worked a 17-hour day, taken some opioids, and that Ms Heard gave him the ice cream “because she knew what was going to happen”. The defamation trial between Mr Depp and Ms Heard began on Monday 11 April in Fairfax, Virginia following Mr Depp’s lawsuit against his ex-wife in March 2019.

Johnny Depp is back on the stand in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard began on Monday 11 April in Fairfax, Virginia following Mr Depp’s lawsuit against his ex-wife in March 2019. Mr Depp said that over time his marriage to Ms Heard had begun to feel like he was ‘in a relationship’ with his mother (Evelyn Hockstein/AP)Mr Depp is arguing that she defamed him in a December 2018 op-ed published in The Washington Post titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change”.

Johnny Depp is sharing his “truth” amid his blockbuster libel lawsuit trial against Amber Heard.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Actor Johnny Depp told jurors Tuesday that he felt compelled to sue his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel out of an obsession for the truth after she accused him of domestic violence.“My goal is the truth because it killed me that all these people I had met over the years ...

New details have come out about Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s intense first week in court…

Amber Heard’s former personal assistant is having her moment at Johnny Depp’s defamation trial, and she once again did not paint a flattering portrait of the Aquaman star.

One of Johnny Depp’s childhood friends testified on Wednesday that he never witnessed any physical abuse by the actor, nor did he detect any bruises or marks on Amber Heard’s face when he saw her shortly after a stormy May 21, 2016 argument at their downtown Los Angeles home.

A second day of testimony in Johnny Depp’s defamation case got underway Wednesday with his sister testifying that the “Pirates” star suffered abuse from their mother, and was a “very sad” person during his troubled marriage to now ex-wife Amber Heard.Christi Dembrowski, Depp’s older sibling and personal manager, began her testimony Tuesday and returned Wednesday for cross-examination. When Heard’s attorney’s questioned Dembrowski about Depp’s allegedly toxic behavior and aggressive text messages he sent in May 2014, she didn’t recall the conversation but told the court, “I wanted to be able to be helpful … because they were arguing all the time.”Dembrowski began her Tuesday testimony by detailing abuse they suffered from their mother: “She would hit us, she would throw things.” Dembrowski said Depp never hit his mom back, instead “he would get away.”She told the jury that Depp and Heard had many problems in their marriage and she believed Depp was a “very sad” person during that time.

Johnny Depp was an ‘obsessed ex-husband hell-bent on revenge’, a court has heard, as the actor’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard got underway in the US state of Virginia.  Lawyers on behalf of the Justice League actress said Mr Depp had sought to ‘ruin her life’ and that the situation was ‘disturbing, but not surprising’.  The 58-year-old Pirates Of The Caribbean actor is suing Heard, his former partner, for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post in which she discussed her experiences of domestic abuse.