Johnny Depp & Amber Heard’s $100M Legal War Calls James Franco, Paul Bettany, Elon Musk, Disney & Warner Bros Reps As Witnesses At Trial; Jason Momoa & Bryan Lourd Emails Added To Court Docket
deadline.comThere 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.If the three-year old and counting case survives the latest summary judgement motion set for a March 24 hearing, James Franco, WandaVision star Paul Bettany, Elon Musk and representatives of the Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros, and the LAPD will be joining friends, family, lawyers and other associates of the former married Rum Diary co-stars in the Virginia courtroom.
Additionally, the private correspondence of Depp and Heard and some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and power players will be laid out for the public to see.Kicked off by a $50 million defamation suit filed by the one-time Pirates of the Caribbean star back in March 2019 over a domestic violence Washington Post op-ed penned by Heard in late 2018, the bitter and increasingly scorched Earth dispute between the couple is presently set to go to trial starting April 11.
After failing to both get the matter moved to California and dismissed, the Aquaman star countersued her litigious ex-husband for $100 million in September 2020.
Losing his UK libel suit against Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun tabloid in November 2020 for calling him a “wife beater,” and denied an appeal in March 2021, Depp also came up short in January 2021 in his desire to see Heard’s big bucks countersuit tossed out.Currently both Depp and Heard are planning to take the stand in-person in Judge Penney S.
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