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Amber Heard’s cross-examination by one of Johnny Depp’s lawyers ended on Tuesday afternoon in Fairfax County in the bitter defamation lawsuit between film celebrities. Depp’s quick lawyer, Camille Vazquez, sought to discredit Hurd’s testimony and constantly categorized her as abusing her ex-husband during their tumultuous relationship and marriage.
Depp is suing Hurd for $ 50 million over a 2018 post she published in The Washington Post alleging domestic violence by an unnamed person. He claims that the song has ruined his reputation and career and claims that he has never physically or sexually abused Hurd. She took him for $ 100 million after his lawyers told him her allegations were untrue. (The Post is not a defendant in the case.)
Johnny Depp’s lawyers tried to discredit his ex-wife Amber Heard’s allegations of abuse on May 17 by showing the jury a knife she bought for the actor. (Video: Reuters)
Vazquez presented the jury with a knife that Hurd gave to Depp for his birthday, engraved with the phrase “to death” in Spanish. “This is the knife you gave to the man who will get drunk and be violent with you,” Vazquez said.
“I wasn’t worried about him stabbing him,” Hurd said.
As he was doing during his cross-examination questions on Tuesday, Vazquez turned quickly, raising another, unrelated incident. She questioned Hurd’s testimony about a particularly brutal incident she claims it happened in Australia, where she claims she was sexually assaulted with a bottle of alcohol and Depp’s fingertip was cut off. Depp claims that Hurd cut his finger by throwing a bottle of vodka at him, while the defense suggests that Depp was injured.
Vazquez focused on the sequence of events, which she said were incredible – claiming that Depp could not cause so much damage with a severed finger. Hurd claims that she does not remember the order in which things happened, saying: “I have never said that I can remember the exact sequence of these things. It’s a multi-day raid that has been going on for three terrible days. “
Vazquez also tried to discredit Hurd’s testimony about the incident in Australia, saying that “there is no medical record” of Hurd’s injuries, nor are there any photos of them.
Vazquez noted that Hurd expressed concern about Depp’s drug abuse, but continued to use drugs and alcohol. She wondered if it was Hurd who he was jealous, not Depp, as the defendant claims. She suggested that Depp get Hurd for her role in Aquaman and presented a tape recording in which Hurd insulted Depp’s career, calling it a “wash” and a “joke.” She also presented numerous sets of text messages in which Hurd repeatedly asked Depp to answer the phone in an attempt to portray Hurd as jealous. “You kept texting him,” Vazquez said. Hurd said she sent them in a desperate attempt to get Depp to stop using drugs.
Vazquez strongly insisted on Hurd’s argument that the article she wrote – which is at the heart of the process – was not about Depp, but about what happened to her after she received a temporary restraining order against the actor. “I was actually talking about a bigger problem than just Johnny,” Hurd said.
Hurd’s counterclaim revolves around several allegations made in the press by former Depp lawyer Adam Waldman, who called Hurd’s accusations a hoax. She claims that the accusations, which she describes as a “negative defamation campaign”, have led to a loss of career opportunities.
In response, Vazquez read headlines from articles that negatively characterized Hurd, published before Waldman’s comments.
The cross-examination lasted until about 2:40 p.m., after which Hurd’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft began a redirection of interrogation, challenging several of Vazquez’s points, such as how Hurd got his role in Aquaman.
“I worked really hard,” Hurd said.
The diversion lasted about 35 minutes, and Vazquez consistently – and successfully – objected to questions from Bredehoft – often so many times in a row that it provoked laughter from the audience in the courtroom, which throughout the trial consisted mainly of Depp fans.
The court then released a video of iO artist Tilet Wright, a friend of Hurd’s who had been close to Depp for several years. He described the actor as “wonderful”, “magical” and “very funny” when sober, but “paranoid”, “evil” and “dirty” when drunk.
Although he had never witnessed Hurd’s physical assault on Depp, Wright said, he had heard Depp say things about her, such as “all she has is her appearance.” He said that when Depp was drunk, he would also “insult his fans” and call them “remoras”, also known as suckerfiches. He also remembers that Depp told him that “he just doesn’t like sober life” and that he would “experience great bouts of jealousy in relationships.”
Just after Depp and Hurd’s wedding ceremony, Wright said, he congratulated Depp on their wedding. Depp is said to have replied: “We are married. Now I can punch her in the face and no one can do anything about it.
He also reported an incident in which he spoke on the phone with Hurd, who told him that Depp was convinced that they had defecated on his pillow. Wright and Hurd started laughing, he said, and Depp was excited. Wright heard a bang and the phone fell. And he said to her, “You think I hit you? You think I hit you? What if I cut your hair back? And then I heard the phone fall again and I heard her scream.
The trial is set to continue on Wednesday with the testimony of additional witnesses.
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