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FAIRFAX: A jury is scheduled to listen to ultimate arguments Friday in Johnny Depp’s high-profile libel lawsuit in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard.
Every aspect can have two hours to summarize their case in a tribulation that has stretched on for 6 weeks. With broadcast cameras within the court, a star trial that garnered intense passion from the outset has best won momentum as fanatics have weighed in on social media and coated up in a single day for coveted court seats.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Publish describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His legal professionals say he was once defamed via the thing even supposing it by no means discussed his identify.
Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim in opposition to Depp after his attorney known as her allegations a hoax.
Depp says he by no means struck Heard and that she concocted the abuse allegations to realize a bonus in divorce court cases.
Heard testified about greater than a dozen episodes of bodily and sexual attack that she stated Depp inflicted on her.
