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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Edward Helmore

Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial: jurors hear conflicting accounts of marriage

Johnny Depp inside a courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, on 12 April.
Johnny Depp inside a courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, on 12 April. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Contradictory, explosive accounts of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s tumultuous three-year marriage have been presented to jurors on the opening day of Depp’s libel case against his ex-wife in a US court, with Depp’s lawyers accusing Heard of fabricating domestic violence claims against him to advance her own career.

Heard’s attorneys, meanwhile, argued that her allegations are true, she had a right to express her views, “and all Mr Depp has wanted to do is humiliate Amber, to haunt her, to wreck her career”.

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