Johnny Depp’s Girlfriend Joelle Rich Attended Amber Heard Trial: ‘It Was Personal’
usmagazine.comShowing her support. Johnny Depp‘s girlfriend, Joelle Rich, was present in the courtroom during his defamation trial against Amber Heard, Us Weekly can confirm.“There was no professional obligation for her being there,” an insider exclusively tells Us of the attorney. “It was personal.”In one photo from the May court proceedings, Rich can be seen hugging Camille Vasquez, one of the lawyers who represented Depp, 59, in his U.S.
case against the Aquaman star, 36. The London-based attorney was part of the legal team that handled the Secret Window actor’s U.K.
libel lawsuit against The Sun in 2018, but she was not professionally involved with the Heard case.Us broke the news on Thursday, September 22, that the Hollywood Vampires musician and the lawyer are in a “serious” relationship. “Their chemistry is off the charts,” an insider explained, noting that the duo “discreetly” met up in hotels before their romance was public. “They are the real deal.”Rich, for her part, was married when she met the Kentucky native, but she’s now in the process of divorcing her husband.
She and her estranged spouse share two children.In addition to working on Depp’s U.K. case, Rich represented Meghan Markle in her case against the publishers of The Mail on Sunday.
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