Kate Moss was called as a witness in the trial between her ex, Johnny Depp, and Amber Heard. Photo Steve Helber/AP
The ultramedia trial to face Johnny Depp with his former partner Amber Heard will add to the final week of having another star on the court, as model Kate Moss, who had a relationship with the actor in the mid -nineties, was called as a witness.
Of course, the defendant mentioned this to the popular jury when he justified his reasons for attacking Depp at one point. The 58-year-old actor’s lawyers used that, requesting that Moss be summoned. the lawyers they trust the good relationship that has remained between the two despite the distant separation.
According to CNN, the model will appear this Wednesday at the Fairfax courthouse, located in Virginia, United States, to testify in the case starring anyone his partner between 1994 and 1998.
Heard himself introduced the model interfering with the litigation, when describing a dispute between Depp and his brother, he said it “reminded” him of a rumor that the actor once pushed Moss down the stairs.
Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, when they were married, with Iggy Popp, at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
“I didn’t hesitate, I didn’t wait. I immediately thought of Kate Moss and the ladder, and hit it off“Heard assured after admitting that he hit the actor to defend his brother while they were both arguing.
Those words were celebrated by Depp’s lawyers inside the court, because according to the American press Moss maintains a good relationship with the actor and the simple mention of the incident allows the model to be included on the witness list. however, It doesn’t seem like everything has turned pink during the four years of that love.
According to a statement published by The New York Times in 1994, New York police arrested the actor after he discarded a hotel room where he was staying with the modelwho in any case has never presented himself as a victim of violence.
Amber Heard filed a countersuit against Johnny Depp. Photo Steve Helber/EFE
The trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Heard’s defense declined Monday to ask Depp to re -testify as a witness at the trial, which faces his last week before the famous jury met to discuss.
In addition to Heard and Depp, whose statements lasted several days, during the four-week trial of psychologists, police officers, representatives, domestic employees and even the couple’s therapist, na asserted that the abuse was “mutual”.
Last week, Whitney Henriquez, Heard’s sister, making sure he saw how Depp repeatedly slapped the actress in the face in a discussion that took place in the couple’s attic back in March 2015. He is, so far, the only witness who says he saw Depp hit Heard.
On April 11, the legal battle began in which the actor accused his ex-wife of defamation for an article he published in The Washington Post in 2018, after their divorce, in which claimed to have experienced “domestic abuse” without mentioning. Depp is asking for $ 50 million in compensation, as he claims he lost a very important contract because of it, just as he promised to continue the Pirates of the Caribbean legend.
For his part, Heard responded with a counterclaim in which he says Depp launched a smear campaign against him and claimed 100 million.
This is the first time the two celebrities have faced each other in court. At the trial held in 2020 in London, and Depp lost, the actress attended as a witness, as the accusation was against the British newspaper The Sun for an article in which she described the actor as an “aggressor of women”.
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Source: Clarin