Amber Heard Expected To Take Stand Again As Johnny Depp Defamation Trial Winds Down

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NOTE: This article contains details and descriptions that are graphic and disturbing. Please read at your own discretion. Jurors in the ongoing trial pitting actors and former spouses Amber Heard and Johnny Depp against one another will hear from final witnesses Thursday, one day before lawyers from each side present their final arguments.

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.

View link » Depp is seeking US$50 million in damages, while Heard is countersuing her former partner for US$100 million. On Thursday, Depp’s lawyers began the proceedings by calling Dr.

Richard Gilbert, an orthopedic hand surgeon, to the stand. Gilbert testified he believed Depp’s wounded finger, a central point in this trial, was severed by a “sharp laceration.” Depp maintains he lost the digit when Heard threw a vodka bottle at his hand during a 2015 argument in Australia. READ MORE: Josh Duggar, ex-reality star, sentenced to 12 years in jail for child porn Heard says that while she does not know exactly how Depp severed his finger, she did not throw anything at his hand.