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Lily Waddell

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial to turn into mudslinging soap opera, says her lawyer

Johnny Depp’s libel trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard is likely to turn into a six-week mudslinging soap opera, lawyers for the actress warned on Tuesday.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is suing his ex-wife for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in December 2018 calling herself a “public figure representing domestic abuse”.

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