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Tristan Kirk

‘Claims I hit my lover are just smears by Johnny Depp’: Amber Heard denies attack at airport

Amber Heard reacts in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax

(Picture: AP)

Amber Heard said reports that she was arrested for assaulting a former girlfriend in 2009 were part of a “smear campaign” by Johnny Depp, as she concluded her evidence to their libel trial.

The actress denied allegations that she had assaulted former partner Tasya van Ree in a bust-up at an airport in Seattle, suggesting the story had been “planted by Johnny’s team” after their marriage broke down and she obtained a restraining order against the star.

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