The end of Johnny Depp’s trial (of horrors) against his ex-wife is approaching Amber Heard. On May 27, the lawyers of the two parties in dispute fought all out with the final arguments. Pending the verdict, which will arrive in the next few days, Variety he asks himself: “How much damage did the editorial by Amber Heard to the shooting star Johnny Depp?
Quick background summary: Depp is suing ex-wife, asking 50 million dollars of damages, for a December 2018 editorial on Washington Post in which she accused her, without ever quoting him directly, of domestic abuse. The process, one of the bloodiest in Hollywoodbegan April 12 in Virginia and the two protagonists, hearing after hearing, fed the world the gruesome background of nightmare wedding based on violence, blood and decay.
Johnny said in court that he had lost millions of dollars to Amber’s allegations. But the process, he writes Varietyhas shown that in reality Depp “it was in decline well before Heard’s editorial came out“. Tracey Jacobs, Depp’s former agent also admitted it in the courtroom: “His star had dimmed“. Because of the instability and whims – even on set – related to abuse. An addiction that Depp himself publicly spoke about in 2020: “I have used all the drugs that exist.” Hollywood is not so moralistic: if the star works, and makes money, it doesn’t matter how he behaves. And Depp has been, for years, the classic goose that lays the golden eggs. But lately he-see films Mortdecai, Transcendence And Black Mass – at the box office they turned out to be a half flop. For some time, despite the disappointing receipts, the studios continued to worship the “Pirate of the Caribbean”. But then they got bored. And this, he says Varietyit happened well before Amber’s famous editorial on Washington Post. In 2018, Johnny did not make any films. Jack Whigham, Depp’s new agent, said at the trial that the star in 2018 did not work by choice of him: “He wanted to take a break to rest“.
Johnny Depp’s annus horribilis was in 2020, when he found himself for the first time in court with Amber Heard in the context he brought against Sun who had called it a “Beater of wives”. The trial sentence, which arrived in early November, had sanctioned the defeat of the star. And the collapse of his career. A few days later Warner Bros had removed him from the set of Fantastic Beasts 3. Not only that: he had been stripped of the role of Jack Sparrow from the franchise of Pirates of the Caribbean. But already in 2019 an article by Rolling Stone he portrayed the star as a drunkard and a drug addict, arguing that his addictions would be bad publicity for the films he made.
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Source: Vanity Fair
