Hollywood A-listers to give evidence during £115m Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial

JOHNNY Depp will need to pull “a rabbit out the hat” to win his US defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard, an expert has claimed. A second court defeat could be career ending for the Pirates of the Caribbean star, said media lawyer Alex Wade.

Mads Mikkelsen has revealed he was given two days notice to replace Johnny Depp in a leading role in the Fantastic Beasts film franchise. Hannibal actor Mads, 56, took over the role of genocidal wizard villain Gellert Grindewald in newly released The Secrets of Dumbledore.

The dirty laundry we’ve seen so far in Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial against Amber Heard isn’t stopping any time soon.

Dr. David Kipper, an addiction specialist who previously worked with Johnny Depp, is the latest to speak out in court amid the actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard’s defamation trial.

Amber Heard would "quite often" walk around naked, her former personal assistant told Hollywood’s £100million defamation trial.Kate James, who worked for Heard, 35, for three years while she said she was in an abusive relationship with Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp, 58, said her "very dramatic" boss loved to wander round in the buff.She frequently saw the blonde Aquaman star in the nude but said she never spotted her with any injuries.Ms James said she had been present for "90%" of Heard’s dress and costume fittings."She had no issue with walking around naked quite often,’" she said, giving evidence to the hearing at the Fairfax County District Court in Virginia, US, on video.The assistant said she never saw Heard with any cuts, bruises, black eyes or with a broken nose and clumps of hair missing - injuries the actress claimed to have suffered at Depp’s hands.Heard’s lawyers have told the seven-strong jury the actress was adept at using make-up to cover her injuries.But Ms James, who saw her "almost daily", told the court: "She usually never wore make-up unless she was going to a special event".While she witnessed "screaming", "yelling" and "abuse’" from Heard, whom she said once spat in her face in a "blind rage", she said Depp was "peaceful", "calm", "passive", "very kind" and a "total Southern gentleman".She said Heard was "often intoxicated" on red wine and the actress admitted to her she had taken mushrooms, ecstasy and cocaine.On drugs she said the actress suffered "manic episodes", became "disorientated" and "more and more belligerent".Ms James, who worked for Heard from 2012 to 2015 when she married Depp, said the actress sent her "barrages" of abusive texts between 2am and 4am which made "no

The trial in the defamation suit filed by Johnny Depp against ex-wife Amber Heard continued on Thursday with testimony from Heard’s former assistant, Kate James.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the latest attempt to expand J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world beyond Harry Potter, earned $6 million from Thursday previews.The production is on track to earn roughly $40 million in its opening weekend, which would be the weakest start for a Potter-adjacent movie. 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” launched to $74 million in North America, while the 2018 follow-up “The Crimes of Grindelwald” bowed to  $62 million.

Next up at Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard is someone who has ALL the info: their former marriage counselor!

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.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard engaged in “mutual abuse” throughout their relationship, a therapist for the couple has said. Laurel Anderson, a clinical psychotherapist who saw the pair on multiple occasions, said Mr Depp told her that his former wife “gave as good as she got” during their fights. The actor is suing Ms Heard for libel over a 2018 op-ed written in the Washington Post which his lawyers say contained false allegations that he physically and sexually assaulted her while they were married.

Edward Scissorhands, Benny and Joon and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape to blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, his on-screen presence was like catnip to me. He picked weird characters, he made films that resonated with my adolescent misfit identity, and he was devastatingly attractive – a winning combination. It feels like the version of Johnny Depp we knew in the 1990s and early 2000s no longer existsI plastered my walls and school planner with pictures of Depp, and spent hours on internet message boards gushing over his acting, his grunge style and hypnotic eyes.

Amber Heard's former personal assistant accused the "Aquaman" actress of creating an abusive work environment in a videotaped deposition played Thursday during actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife in Fairfax, Virginia. Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse. Heard never identified Depp directly, but attorneys for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor say her allegations have negatively impacted Depp's career and relationship with his family.

Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial is underway and a text message he sent about his ex Amber Heard has been revealed in court.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp for a total of 21 historic sessions as they struggled to repair their marriage, told the court that "abandonment" was Amber's "worst nightmare" and that she would strike her partner in a bid to keep him there.The counsellor also claimed that she believed the abuse was "mutual".Based on notes she'd taken during their sessions, she described Johnny as a man who had been "well controlled" for decades, and depicted both himself and Amber as victims of abuse at home in their younger years.She also claimed that Amber felt humiliated if Johnny attacked her, as it linked back to when she felt powerless as a child when being "physically violated" by her father."Her history is having been violated by her father [so] she was sensitive to feeling disrespected," she said."If she felt disrespected, she had come out of her background history feeling her pride needed to dominate and she needed to stand up for herself.""I know she led [the physical fighting] on more than one occasion and started it to keep him with her because abandonment and having him leave was her worst nightmare," Dr. Anderson told the court.She added at Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny's $50 million defamation trial: "Miss Heard reported that it was a point of pride to her, if she felt disrespected, to initiate a fight.

A marriage therapist is giving insight into the relationship between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

A marriage therapist testified in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial that the volatile couple engaged in “what I saw as mutual abuse.”

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were married for less than two years, but they’ve weathered a ton of ups and downs since their 2016 split.

Amber Heard's former PA has told a court the actress "stole" her story of being violently raped at machete-point in Brazil three decades ago "for her own use".Kate James, who said while employed practically ran the star's life, accused her former boss of "'twisted it into her own story to benefit herself".The PA appeared on the third day of evidence in the explosive defamation trial in Fairfax, Virginia, between Heard and her former husband, Johnny Depp.Ms James told the jury she worked for the actress between 2012 and 2015 and that they had not spoken in the past five years.She described her former boss as a "very dramatic person", telling how Heard, 35, would need appeasing by constantly asking if she was alright.Ms James testified how the actress would complain or cry due to insecurities in her relationship with Depp but never told her anything about him being abusive. She said there was never any evidence of violence, adding she was at there at their Los Angeles home almost daily and never saw a thing.Asked if there was "nothing you heard, nothing you witnessed" that ever gave her an "inkling of concern" about possible violence in the relationship, she replied: "Never."Discussing her job, Ms James told by video one of her duties was to pick up two copies of any magazine featuring the actress.She was told to store them in her garage because Heard didn't want Depp to see them.She said the actress once got "very angry" one day when she failed to put them away."She went absolutely ballistic over that," Ms James said.Asked to elaborate, she said it was "yelling, abuse" but could not remember precisely what Heard said.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA therapist who worked with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in 2015 testified that the couple engaged in “mutual abuse,” and that Depp could be “triggered” by Heard.Laurel Avis Anderson’s testimony was played for jurors on the third day of the $50 million defamation trial underway in Fairfax, Va. Depp has sued Heard for publishing an op-ed in 2018 in which she alluded to domestic violence claims that she first made in the context of their 2016 divorce.Anderson testified via video deposition in February, and the video was played for the jury on Thursday morning. Anderson said she saw the couple several times between October and December 2015, and that the sessions could be stormy — with both of them threatening to walk out at times.

Mads Mikkelsen says there is a “very deliberate” reason why Gellert Grindelwald’s change in appearance won’t be mentioned in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore”.

Johnny Depp once sent a message saying he hoped his ex wife Amber Heard's "rotting corpse is decomposing in the trunk' of a car", a court heard. Depp's friend Isaac Baruch was quizzed about the text on the second day of the defamation trial between the A-list stars. During cross exemption by Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, she asked the witness if he remembered an exchange with Depp in October 2016.