Johnny Depp Suffers Big Loss In $100M Defamation Battle With Amber Heard As Trial Looms

Johnny Depp‘s sister Christi Dembrowski took to the stand on Tuesday (April 12) as part of the actor’s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Attorneys representing "Sweeny Todd" actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, "Aquaman" actress Amber Heard, accused both parties of abuse and manipulation in their opening statements Tuesday during Depp's defamation trial against Heard. Depp, 58, sued Heard, 35, for $50 million in 2019 over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp‘s defamation lawsuit is underway.

Johnny Depp was pictured arriving at Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia on Monday as he embarked on his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, who was also pictured. The pair have been involved in a bitterly fought out legal battle over domestic abuse claims directed towards Johnny by Amber, which each side has disputed over in regards to falsities and truths of the matter.The defamation trial taking place in Virginia is going ahead as Johnny sues Amber for $50 million over her 2018 op-ed published in The Washington Post – revealing herself to be a victim of domestic abuse – to which Amber is countersuing for $100 million.

Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard got underway in a Virginia courtroom on Tuesday, with lawyers for the actor arguing Heard faked her domestic abuse to advance her career.

Johnny Depp’s attorneys told jurors that “his name is associated with a lie,” characterizing his ex-wife Amber Heard’s claims of domestic abuse as false accusations that lack any evidence and even suggesting that her 2018 Washington Post op-ed was written to reap publicity from her upcoming movie Aquaman.

A jury in Virginia is scheduled to hear opening statements Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Depp says Heard libeled him when she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." Depp is never mentioned by name, but he says the article implicates him nonetheless because it refers to past accusations Heard made when she sought a restraining order against him. Depp denies the abuse allegations.

televised trial, held in Fairfax County, Virginia.How did this all get started, and what is the history behind the Depp-Heard case? Read on for everything you need to know.The 11 jurors have been selected. Judge Penney Azcarate will preside over the trial at the Fairfax County District Court, with opening arguments beginning tomorrow.The former couple met in 2009 while filming “The Rum Diary” and wed in 2015. In May of 2016, the police were called to their home to investigate a domestic dispute, but nothing came of it.

an op-ed published in The Washington Post in December 2018. While Depp wasn’t named in the article, he claims in his lawsuit that it implied he abused her, which he says negatively impacted his career.Depp and Heard married in 2015 but split in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him and accused him of abusing her.

ex-husband Johnny Depp’s $50million (£38.2million) defamation lawsuit against her.The actor is suing Heard over a 2018 open-ed she wrote in the Washington Post, where she spoke about surviving domestic violence.In the piece, headlined: “I spoke up against sexual violence – and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change,” Heard does not mention Depp by name.However, Depp’s lawyers have argued that the article falsely implies she was sexually and physically abused by Depp during their marriage.

Over the next six weeks, the trial of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard that commences today could prove to be the biggest roles of the former couple’s careers.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAfter losing in a U.K. court in 2020, Johnny Depp will get a second chance to try to refute allegations that he abused ex-wife Amber Heard at a trial opening today in Virginia.Depp sued Heard in 2019 over an op-ed she published in the Washington Post in which she alluded to prior allegations against Depp, saying she had become “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”She did not identify Depp by name in the op-ed or go into any details of the abuse, instead focusing on the backlash she had endured since making the claims in 2016 and the work still remaining for the #MeToo movement.

Amber Heard hopes that she and Johnny Depp can "move on" after their defamation dispute. The 35-year-old actress was sued by her ex-husband for $50 million for defamation after she wrote a piece for the Washington Post newspaper in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. Amber did not name Johnny in the article and has countersued in return for $100 million - with the case set to begin in Virginia on Monday (11.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp will kick off Monday in Virginia court — where the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star is suing his ex-wife for $50 million claiming she defamed him in a 2018 op-ed.The star-studded witness list for the Fairfax County trial includes everyone from Elon Musk to James Franco and the warring ex-couple themselves.At the center of the case is the piece that Heard, 35, wrote for the Washington Post, in which she spoke out about being a victim of “sexual violence.” While Depp is not named in the op-ed, the actor who once made upwards of $20 million per film, says it ruined his reputation and career after it was widely assumed Heard was writing about their five-year relationship.Defamation cases as high-profile as this one are usually litigated behind closed doors, but a jury of 12 Virginians will ultimately decide whether they find Heard’s allegations credible.Just days after Heard’s op-ed published, Disney dropped Depp from its “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, which collectively grossed more than $4.5 billion in the box office.