<ul class="summary-list"><li>Mikkelsen said he "would've loved to have talked" to Depp.</li><li>"I don't know what happened [in his private life]," he told The Sunday Times.</li><li>He said his Gellert Grindelwald portrayal will be different to Depp's.</li></ul>If it were up to <keyword id="941883" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mads-Mikkelsen">Mads Mikkelsen</keyword>, he would have talked to <keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> before taking over his role in the next "<keyword id="2178704" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fantastic-Beasts">Fantastic Beasts</keyword>" movie.The "Hannibal" star was cast in the role of Gellert Grindelwald after Depp was asked to <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">resign in November 2020</a> by Warner Bros. following his unsuccessful libel suit against publishers of the UK newspaper The Sun, which referred to him as a "wife-beater" in relation to his marriage with actress <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>."Obviously, they were going to do the film, and obviously he was not involved any more," Mikkelsen told <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mads-mikkelsen-from-bond-villain-to-the-new-grindelwald-mgkmmj0jw">The Sunday Times</a> recently. "But I didn't have a dog in that fight. And I don't know what happened [in his private life], and I don't know if it was fair, him losing the job, but I just knew that the show was going on.""I would've loved to have talked to him about it if I had the chance," Mikkelsen continued, "but I just don't know him in that sense."In the first two "Beasts" <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword> - 2016's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and 2018's "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" - Depp played the role of the dark wizard.The same month Depp was asked to exit the role, Mikkelsen was <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-replaced-by-mads-mikkelsen-fantastic-beasts-3-2020-11">announced as his replacement</a>.<div type="image" title="gellert grindelwald fantastic beasts" height="848" width="1130" msid="83927050" hostid="261"></div>"They called me and they were obviously in a hurry, and I loved the script and so said yes," Mikkelsen recalled. "And I know it was controversial for many people, but that's just the way it plays out once in a while."Mikkelsen, who is currently shooting the next "Indiana Jones" movie, said he plans to bring a different feel to the Grindelwald character than Depp did."I didn't want to copy what Johnny had done," he said. "I think he's a masterful actor, so copying him would've been creative suicide. I had to figure out something that was definitely my own, and yet also act as a bridge to what he had done."The yet-to-be-titled third "Fantastic Beasts" movie will be out in the summer of 2022.The movies are based on the book by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling and are set seventy years before the events that take place in the Potter stories.

Mads Mikkelsen says he would have liked to talk to Johnny Depp before taking on his 'Fantastic Beasts' role

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> is suing the American Civil Liberties Union.</li><li>Depp wants a court to order the organization to show how much money <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword> has donated.</li><li>Heard committed to donating all of her $7 million divorce settlement to the organization.</li></ul>Johnny Depp and his legal team have filed a lawsuit against the American Civil Liberties Union asking a court to enter an order directing the nonprofit organization to show evidence that Amber Heard donated her divorce settlement.Depp and Heard <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">divorced in 2016</a>. Shortly after their separation was finalized, Heard pledged to donate her $7 million settlement to the ACLU and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.Earlier this year, while <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-appeal-denied-wife-beater-ruling-amber-heard-sun-2021-3">attempting to overturn the ruling in his "wife-beater" libel case</a> against the UK newspaer The Sun, Depp and his lawyers argued that Heard lied about donating her full $7 million divorce settlement to <keyword id="6351" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="charity">charity</keyword> and that the gesture had been an orchestrated stunt. Now in court documents seen by Insider, Depp is asking the ACLU to disclose how much Heard has donated.The court files say Depp and his legal team seek "discovery concerning any donations to the ACLU Foundation by Ms. Heard or in her name, and/or any public statements related to such donations (from the ACLU Foundation and Mr. Romero); communications with Ms. Heard or those acting on her behalf concerning her relationship with Mr. Depp and divorce from Mr. Depp (from all ACLU Witnesses); discovery concerning Ms. Heard's work as an 'ambassador' for the ACLU Foundation."Insider has reached out to representatives for Heard for comment.<div type="image" title="Actor Johnny Depp leaves the High Court in London, Britain July 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley" height="2265" width="3293" msid="82799563" hostid="261"></div>The suit continues to demand any evidence concerning "the conception, drafting, and placement" of the 2018 op-ed article that Heard <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html">wrote for The Washington Post</a> describing experience as a victim of domestic violence. While Depp is not named in Heard's piece, his legal team insists it is strongly inferred that the article is about him. Depp has filed a separate $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard in a Virginia court over the article.During the appeals trial against the ruling in his "wife-beater" libel case against The Sun, Depp's barrister, Andrew Caldecott QC, said Heard's claim that she was donating her divorce-settlement money to charity was a "calculated and manipulative lie" and "tipped the scales against Mr. Depp from the very beginning."Depp was later refused permission to appeal the original "wife-beater" verdict. In his closing statements, Lord Justice Nicholas Underhill said the original hearing "was full and fair" and the trial judge "gave thorough reasons for his conclusions which have not been shown even arguably to be vitiated by any error of approach or mistake of law."

Johnny Depp is suing ACLU to uncover whether Amber Heard really donated her $7 million divorce settlement to charity

<ul class="summary-list"><li>British judges denied <keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword>'s application, saying the original hearing "was full and fair."</li><li>The court originally ruled there was "overwhelming evidence" supporting <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>'s allegations.</li><li>Depp was suing the publishers of the Sun newspaper for labeling him a "wife beater."</li></ul>Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">the UK High Court verdict that ruled against him</a> in his libel case against the publishers of the Sun newspaper, which labeled him a "wife beater" in relation to <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">his marriage with Amber Heard</a>.In last week's hearing, Depp asked the Court of Appeal to give him permission to contest the ruling with the goal of a retrial.On Thursday, however, Court of Appeal judges denied Depp's application, saying that the original hearing "was full and fair" and that the trial judge "gave thorough reasons for his conclusions which have not been shown even arguably to be vitiated by any error of approach or mistake of law."Part of Depp's argument for the appeal relied upon further evidence that Heard had not actually given away the $7 million she received in her divorce settlement that she said she was giving to charity.At last week's hearing, Depp's barrister Andrew Caldecott QC said Heard's claim that she was giving this money to charity was a "calculated and manipulative lie" and "tipped the scales against Mr. Depp from the very beginning," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/25/johnny-depp-loses-bid-to-overturn-ruling-in-libel-case">The Guardian reported</a>.<div type="image" title="Amber Heard and Johnny Depp" height="2996" width="4007" msid="81690067" hostid="261"></div>Lord Justice Nicholas Underhill denied the application to admit further evidence, however, and dismissed the idea that the trial judge was influenced by these "general perceptions.""In the first place, he does not refer to her charitable donation at all in the context of his central findings," Underhill said, as reported by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/25/johnny-depp-loses-bid-to-overturn-ruling-in-libel-case">The Guardian</a>. "On the contrary, he only mentions it in a very particular context … and after he had already reached his conclusions in relation to the 14 incidents."Underhill continued: "We conclude that the appeal has no real prospect of success and that there is no other compelling reason for it to be heard. We accordingly refuse permission to appeal."A representative for Heard said her camp was "pleased" but not surprised by the court's denial of Depp's application to appeal. "The evidence presented in the UK case was overwhelming and undeniable," the person told The Guardian.The statement continued: "The verdict and lengthy, well-reasoned judgment, including the confidential judgment, have been affirmed. Mr. Depp's claim of new and important evidence was nothing more than a press strategy, and has been soundly rejected by the court."In a statement given to Insider, Depp's lawyer Joelle Rich said the decision "further demonstrates that there are clear and objective reasons to seriously question the decision reached in the UK court."Rich said Depp was now looking forward to "presenting the complete, irrefutable evidence of the truth in the US libel case against Heard where she will have to provide full disclosure."Depp is suing Heard personally in the US over a 2018 Washington Post essay in which she wrote about being a domestic-abuse survivor. She did not name Depp in the essay.A hearing for this trial was scheduled to take place in May but that has now been pushed back to April 2022.<div type="image" title="Amber Heard arriving at court" height="1200" width="1600" msid="81690069" hostid="261"></div>The initial <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">ruling from Judge Andrew Nicol came in November</a>, three months after the <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">high-profile court case</a>. The ruling referred to "overwhelming evidence" supporting Heard's allegations, and Nicol said The Sun's lawyers had proved what the newspaper reported was "substantially true."Depp was suing News Group Newspapers Limited and The Sun's executive editor, Dan Wootton, over reports in The Sun that labeled Depp a "wife beater."Depp, who has not been charged with a crime over the allegations, has always denied any claims of abuse. During the trial, he counteraccused Heard of abusing him, which Heard denied.NGN relied upon 14 instances of <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">alleged domestic violence</a> against Heard, and Nicol ruled in November that there was enough evidence to say 12 of these incidents did occur.After the November ruling, one of Depp's solicitors, Jenny Afia, called Nicol's decision "as perverse as it is bewildering."<div type="image" title="gellert grindelwald fantastic beasts" height="975" width="1300" msid="81690070" hostid="261"></div>This decision fueled <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-career-could-be-over-after-losing-libel-suit-2020-12">a career freefall for Depp</a>. Shortly after Nicol's verdict, <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">Depp revealed that Warner Bros asked him to resign</a> from his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise. <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-replaced-by-mads-mikkelsen-fantastic-beasts-3-2020-11">Mads Mikkelsen was soon cast in his place</a>.Meanwhile, supporters of Depp have challenged Heard's role in another Warner Bros franchise. <a href="https://www.insider.com/petition-amber-heard-aquaman-2-reaches-million-2020-11">A petition calling for Heard's removal</a> from her role as Meera in "Aquaman 2" has now garnered over 1.8 million signatures.

Johnny Depp has been denied permission to appeal 'wife beater' ruling

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hes-radioactive-inside-johnny-depps-self-made-implosion">A new report from The Hollywood Reporter</a> revealed that <keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> will have to turn over all "responsive communications" in connection to people with whom he has been "romantic." </li><li>Former costars <keyword id="3540" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Angelina-Jolie">Angelina Jolie</keyword>, <keyword id="6582091" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="keira-knightley">Keira Knightley</keyword>, and <keyword id="254822" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="MARION-COTILLARD">Marion Cotillard</keyword> were confirmed by <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/johnny-depp-angelina-jolie-marion-cotillard-keira-knightley.html">Vulture</a> as three actors who were "romantic partners" with Depp, based on court filings.</li><li>None of these alleged relationships has ever been made public.</li><li>Depp will have to hand over communications with these alleged "partners" as part of his upcoming defamation case against ex-wife <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>, which follows his recent UK libel case loss against The Sun newspaper.</li></ul>Johnny Depp was allegedly "romantic" with his high-profile co-stars, including Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley, and Marion Cotillard, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hes-radioactive-inside-johnny-depps-self-made-implosion">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.In an extensive breakdown of Depp's tarnished reputation, THR reported that in Depp's upcoming US-based defamation case, the actor will have to hand over any and "all responsive communications" in connection to people with whom he has been "romantic." It's unclear how long this list may be, but THR and <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/johnny-depp-angelina-jolie-marion-cotillard-keira-knightley.html">Vulture</a> have named Jolie, Knightley, and Cotillard as such partners based on court filings seen by the publications.THR reports that Depp will be forced to hand over communications with these three actresses, as well as any others with whom he has been involved.These details will be part of Depp's US defamation case, in which <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/johnny-depp-is-now-suing-amber-heard-for-defamation.html">Depp is seeking $50 million</a>. The case concerns the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html">2018 Washington Post essay</a> Heard wrote about her experience with domestic violence, which did not mention Depp by name.<div type="image" title="Johnny Depp arriving at court" height="1200" width="1600" msid="79679389" hostid="261"></div>This follows the <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">UK libel case </a>in which Depp sued The Sun newspaper and its editor Dan Wootton after they labelled him a <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">"wife beater"</a> in relation to his <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">tumultuous marriage</a> with Heard. Although Depp lost the case back in November, the actor continues to deny the allegations.Depp didn't only lose his case, but also<a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies"> his starring role as Gellert Grindelwald</a> in the "Fantastic Beasts" series. <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-replaced-by-mads-mikkelsen-fantastic-beasts-3-2020-11">Mads Mikkelsen has taken over the role</a> after Depp announced that he had been asked to resign by the franchise's studio, Warner Bros.The UK case brought to light numerous private materials, including <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/08/johnny-depp-joked-f-amber-heards-burnt-corpse-texts-paul-bettany-12963268/">text messages between Depp and close friend Paul Bettany</a> in which Depp said he wanted to "burn" Heard. During this case, two of Depp's ex-partners, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, defended him in their <a href="https://www.nickwallis.com/depp-trial-witness-statements">witness statements</a>.The US case may churn up even more details about Depp's private life, especially since <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/johnny-depp-angelina-jolie-marion-cotillard-keira-knightley.html">Vulture</a> reported that a 2019 email from Heard's team defined "romantic" as any person Depp has been sexually involved with in the last 10 years.<div type="image" title="the tourist jonny depp angelina jolie" height="1169" width="1559" msid="79679390" hostid="261"></div>None of the alleged relationships between Depp and Jolie, Cotillard, and Knightley, respectively, have ever been made public or been confirmed by the actors.Still, rumors have circulated about them before. Depp starred in "The Tourist" with Jolie in 2010, and despite <a href="https://www.celebitchy.com/101357/in_touch_angelina_jolie_johnny_depp_kind_of_hate_each_other/">reports that they didn't like one another</a> while shooting the film, an <a href="https://www.geo.tv/latest/310505-angelina-jolie-was-smitten-by-johnny-depp-as-his-film-spoke-to-the-angst-ridden-actor">unofficial biography</a> of Jolie described the actress' crush on Depp. The actor also called Jolie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy2M_bJUf6I&amp;ab_channel=PSJohnnyDeppDepp">"a walking poem,"</a> in a video obtained by Pop Sugar, describing her as "a perfect beauty."Meanwhile, Depp starred in the John Dillinger movie "Public Enemies" opposite Cotillard, who also played his love interest. <a href="https://www.celebitchy.com/12068/marion_cotillard_flirting_with_johnny_depp_on_set/">Depp and Cotillard were reportedly very flirty</a> while shooting the film, which apparently left Depp's then-partner Vanessa Paradis feeling somewhat jealous, according to reports.Depp and Knightley both starred in three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, becoming on-and-off costars for a decade. While their characters, Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann, were not exactly love interests, they did share a kiss in the 2006 second installment, "Dead Man's Chest."However, Depp called that kiss with Knightley, who is one year older than Amber Heard, "awkward" in an interview with the <a href="https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-147626168/i-didn-t-like-the-idea-of-kissing-keira-johnny-depp">Evening Standard.</a> He added: "Kissing someone you are not romantically involved with is always awkward, but the fact that Keira is 20-something years younger than me made it infinitely more awkward."Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">The biggest moments from Johnny Depp's libel trial against News Group Newspapers</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-reportedly-tried-remove-amber-heard-aquaman-2020-12">Johnny Depp reportedly tried to have ex Amber Heard replaced on 'Aquaman' after their split</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/edward-scissorhands-writer-caroline-thompson-johnny-depp-libel-trial-bull-2020-11">The 'Edward Scissorhands' screenwriter thinks Johnny Depp's libel trial was 'he-said-she-said bulls---'</a>

Johnny Depp was allegedly 'romantic' with former costars Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley, and Marion Cotillard in the last 10 years

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Caroline Thompson, who wrote the Johnny Depp-starring "<keyword id="225916" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Edward-Scissorhands">Edward Scissorhands</keyword>," told Insider that she thinks <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">the actor's libel trial</a> was "he-said-she-said" "bulls---."</li><li>Thompson said that while <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">Depp's removal from "Fantastic Beasts"</a> was "so cruel," she did understand the decision.</li><li>Thompson hopes that Depp's career can recover from this scandal, and said "if something occurred," she would write another script for the actor.</li><li>Thompson said the fact that Depp is still alive is "probably a miracle," and said: "I hope he not only lives, but flourishes and gets through this, that's really how I feel about it."</li></ul>Insider spoke to longtime <keyword id="10394" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tim-Burton">Tim Burton</keyword> collaborator Caroline Thompson whose writing brought to life some of the director's most memorable movies including "Edward Scissorhands," "The Nightmare Before Christmas," and "Corpse Bride."During "Scissorhands," Thompson built a close relationship with the now-embattled actor <keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> who she said would bring her a margarita every morning when they were working together on a different project.The author and screenwriter weighed in on <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">Depp's recent libel case loss</a> against the publishers of The Sun newspaper in the UK, which she called "he-said-she-said" "bulls---."Depp decided to sue The Sun and its executive editor Dan Wooten for calling him a "wife beater" in an article referencing his former marriage with <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>. Thompson told Insider she was sad to hear about these allegations."I don't want to think badly of Johnny. I only want to think well of Johnny, and I know he's a sweet man. I suspect he's gotten really lost at times in his life," Thompson said.<div type="image" title="Caroline Thompson attends Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures' premiere of 'Welcome To Marwen' at ArcLight Hollywood on December 10, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/FilmMagic)" height="1002" width="1333" msid="79432327" hostid="261"></div>The screenwriter, who also wrote "The Addams Family," said that she didn't follow the <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">libel trial that Depp lost after Judge Andrew Nicol</a> said The Sun's lawyers had proved what the newspaper reported was "substantially true.""I had a sense of what's going on. It was he-said-she-said, it's bulls---," Thompson said.Following the judge's ruling, <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">Warner Bros. asked Depp to resign</a> from his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the Harry Potter spin-off "Fantastic Beasts," which the actor agreed to. <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-replaced-by-mads-mikkelsen-fantastic-beasts-3-2020-11">Mads Mikkelsen has since been cast as his replacement.</a><div type="image" title="Mads Mikkelson Johnny Depp Grindelwald" height="1200" width="1600" msid="79432330" hostid="261"></div>While Thompson thought Depp's removal of "Fantastic Beasts" was "so cruel," she does understand why the decision was made."There are fallouts from our hyper-sensitive times. Things go to extremes, and they have to. It's all apart of the zeitgeist we are experiencing right now," Thompson said. "I hope he's okay."Thompson told Insider that she is still friends with "Edward Scissorhands" costume designer Colleen Atwood, who has worked with Depp frequently throughout her career and is the costume designer for the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise. Thompson said she spoke to Atwood about Depp recently."She's doing 'Fantastic Beasts' and she was doing a costume fitting with him when all this came down and I asked if he's okay, and she just said 'I hope so.'"<h2>Thompson's agent approached her to write a script for Depp</h2>Thompson told Insider that she would "never in a million years want the kind of celebrity that he has.""The cruellest thing we could do to a human is to put them on display like that. That he's still alive is probably a miracle," she added.Thompson hopes Depp's career can recover from this scandal, and said that while she doesn't write all that much for the film business, her agent asked her if she would write a script for Depp."If [an idea] occurred, of course, I think he's marvellous," Thompson said."I hope he not only lives, but flourishes and gets through this, that's really how I feel about it."Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">A complete timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-replaced-by-mads-mikkelsen-fantastic-beasts-3-2020-11">Johnny Depp has been officially replaced by Mads Mikkelsen in 'Fantastic Beasts 3'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jude-law-johnny-depp-fantastic-beasts-firing-2020-11">Jude Law says 'it was unusual' that Johnny Depp was ousted from 'Fantastic Beasts 3'</a>

The 'Edward Scissorhands' screenwriter thinks Johnny Depp's libel trial was 'he-said-she-said bulls---'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> was pictured behind bars accepting an award from a Polish film festival in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CH3fHs5hCm_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">bizarre Instagram post</a>.</li><li>The official Instagram of the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival posted the photo on Sunday, writing: "Greetings from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/johnnydepp/">@johnnydepp</a> from Bahamas."</li><li><a href="https://camerimage.pl/en/minamata-w-rezyserii-andrew-levitasa-filmem-zamkniecia-28-edycji-energacamerimage-johnny-depp-z-nagroda-dla-aktora/">In a post announcing the news</a>, EnergaCamerimage lauded Depp's performances in various films and wrote that "we do regret that we will not be able to stand together with Johnny Depp before our superb audience."</li><li>Depp recently <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">lost his libel trial against The Sun newspaper</a>, which had called him a "wife beater" in relation to his marriage to <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>, and was subsequently <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">removed from his role as Grindelwald in the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise</a>.</li></ul>Johnny Depp was photographed accepting an award at the Polish EnergaCamerimage film festival, a festival dedicated to "the art of cinematography." Depp received the Camerimage Award to an Actor with Unique Visual Sensitivity after his movie "Minamata" closed the 28th edition of the festival.In "Minamata," Depp plays famed war photographer W. Eugene Smith, who documents the effect of mercury poisoning in Japan.Depp did not collect the award in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The EnergaCamerimage Instagram posted the photo of three-time Oscar nominee Depp on Sunday, writing: "Greetings from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/johnnydepp/">@johnnydepp</a> from Bahamas."<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CH3fHs5hCm_" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by EnergaCAMERIMAGE (@camerimage.festival)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote><a href="https://camerimage.pl/en/minamata-w-rezyserii-andrew-levitasa-filmem-zamkniecia-28-edycji-energacamerimage-johnny-depp-z-nagroda-dla-aktora/">In a post announcing the news</a>, EnergaCamerimage wrote that Depp is "one of the most versatile performers of modern cinema."It wrote: "Johnny Depp earned himself a reputation of a true acting chameleon capable of handling basically everything that the screenwriters, directors, costume designers, make-up artists and others threw at him."The post lauded Depp for his many "memorable performances that shaped several generations of moviegoers," and stated that "we do regret that we will not be able to stand together with Johnny Depp before our superb audience."The festival also name-checked several of Depp's movies, including the upcoming third instalment of the "<keyword id="2178704" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fantastic-Beasts">Fantastic Beasts</keyword>" franchise. However, since that post was written, <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-resigns-fantastic-beasts-movies">Depp has been removed from his role in that movie as Gellert Grindelwald</a>, which he played in the second instalment, "The Crimes of Grindelwald."Depp's resignation came after <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-loses-wife-beater-libel-amber-heard-the-sun-newspaper-2020-11">Judge Andrew Nicol ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper over Depp following the libel trial</a> in which Depp attempted to sue the paper for calling him a "wife beater." The Sun alleged that Depp physically abused his now ex-wife Amber Heard, <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">which Depp denies.</a>Depp called the ruling "surreal" in a statement posted on Instagram, and wrote that he planned to appeal.Depp wrote: "My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false. My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time."<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQXHimJvAC" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Johnny Depp (@johnnydepp)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote>Meanwhile, the search for Depp's Grindelwald successor continues, with no actor formally announcd yet. However, "Casino Royale" and "Doctor Strange" actor <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-beasts-3-mads-mikkelsen-johnny-depp-grindelwald-replacement?sf132717140=1">Mads Mikkelsen is the favorite for the role</a>. Mikkelsen told <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-beasts-3-mads-mikkelsen-johnny-depp-grindelwald-replacement?sf132717140=1">IGN</a> that it was just a "rumor" at this stage, but that he is "waiting for that phone call."Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">The biggest moments from Johnny Depp's libel trial against News Group Newspapers</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/amber-heard-says-returning-aquaman-2-dismissal-rumors-johnny-depp-2020-11">Amber Heard says she will return in 'Aquaman 2' despite rumors of her dismissal amid Johnny Depp controversy</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">A complete timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship</a>

Johnny Depp poses with Polish film festival award in bizarre photo behind bars

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> has lost his libel case against the publishers of the UK newspaper <keyword id="168486" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-Sun">The Sun</keyword> over an article that described him as a "wife-beater."</li><li>Three months after the blockbuster trial, Judge Andrew Nicol ruled that the newspaper was justified in reporting as fact that Depp was violent toward <keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword> during their marriage.</li><li>Nicol said Depp's lawsuit could not succeed because The Sun's lawyers had proved what the newspaper reported was "substantially true."</li><li>In a statement seen by the BBC, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54779430">Heard's lawyer in the US said</a>: "For those of us present for the London High Court trial, this decision and judgment are not a surprise. Very soon, we will be presenting even more voluminous evidence in the US."</li></ul>Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the publishers of the British newspaper The Sun over an article that described him as a "wife-beater."Three months after the blockbuster trial, Judge Andrew Nicol has ruled that the newspaper was correct in reporting that Depp was violent toward the actor Amber Heard during their marriage.Nicol said Depp's lawsuit could not succeed because The Sun's lawyers had proved what the newspaper reported was "substantially true."In reaching his ruling, Nicol referred to 14 separate incidents The Sun's lawyers cited to justify referring to Depp as a "wife-beater."<div type="image" title="Johnny Depp arriving at court" height="1200" width="1600" msid="78999242" hostid="261"></div>Depp, 57, launched the lawsuit against the newspaper for a column published in April 2018 titled "Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife-beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?" written by the newspaper's executive editor Dan Wootton.Following the ruling, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/13082970/johnny-depp-wife-beater-loses-libel-case-amber-heard/">a spokesman for The Sun said</a>: "The Sun has stood up and campaigned for the victims of domestic abuse for over 20 years. Domestic abuse victims must never be silenced and we thank the judge for his careful consideration and thank Amber Heard for her courage in giving evidence to the court."The case has been described as the <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">biggest English libel trial of the 21st century</a> and received global attention as it unfolded over three weeks in July at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.The Sun reports that Depp may have to pay millions in legal costs — including The Sun's.<div type="image" title="Actress Amber Heard, center, arrives at the High Court in London, Monday, July 13, 2020. Johnny Depp is expected to wrap up his evidence at his libel trial against a tabloid newspaper that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard. The Hollywood star is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" height="1706" width="2400" msid="78999245" hostid="261"></div>In a statement published shortly after the ruling, Depp's lawyers said called the decision "as perverse as it is bewildering.""Most troubling is the judge's reliance on the testimony of Amber Heard, and corresponding disregard of the mountain of counter-evidence from police officers, medical practitioners, her own former assistant, other unchallenged witnesses, and an array of documentary evidence which completely undermined the allegations, point by point," the statement continued."All of this was overlooked. The judgment is so flawed that it would be ridiculous for Mr. Depp not to appeal this decision. In the meantime, we hope that in contrast to this case, the ongoing libel proceedings in America are equitable, with both parties providing full disclosure rather than one side strategically cherry-picking what evidence can and cannot be relied upon."Both Depp and Heard, 34, gave evidence across the dramatic 16-day trial alongside relatives, friends, and former partners including Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis.Intimate details of the pair's tumultuous relationship, which lasted from 2015 until 2017 and resulted in a divorce and a restraining order, were laid bare. There were extreme tales of drug and alcohol use as well as accusations of infidelity.On a dramatic first day, Depp told the High Court that he began taking drugs at the age of 11 and did not have "a particularly stable or secure or safe home life," <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DFHg7lPnpMjLGSLOHIhKaN0UeLEH7NV8U89qbhNDlU7M.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTI0VDEwOjQ2OjM0LjExN1oiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kchddqda%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_def36c375ef94361816f1747bd1888ff.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Day%201%20Transcript%20Depp%20v%20NGN%207%20July%202020&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">according to court transcripts</a>. And the former "Pirates of the Caribbean" star accused Heard of cheating with both Elon Musk and James Franco. In a statement seen by the BBC, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54779430">Heard's lawyer in the US said</a>: "For those of us present for the London High Court trial, this decision and judgment are not a surprise. Very soon, we will be presenting even more voluminous evidence in the US."We are committed to obtaining justice for Amber Heard in the US Court and defending Ms. Heard's right to free speech."Depp has strenuously denied all claims that he was violent toward Heard and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/johnny-depp-sues-amber-heard-50m-washington-post-op-ed-1192030">has also launched a $50 million case against Heard</a> in the US over a column she wrote for The Washington Post describing experience with domestic violence.While Depp is not named in Heard's piece, his legal team insists that it is strongly inferred that the article is about him. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-trial-news-group-newspapers-biggest-moments-timeline-2020-7">The biggest moments from Johnny Depp's libel trial against News Group Newspapers</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/amber-heard-make-up-artist-london-court-johnny-depp-trial-2020-7">Amber Heard's make-up artist told a London court she concealed the star's bruises with make-up before a 2015 appearance on James Corden</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">A complete timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship</a></li></ul>

Johnny Depp loses 'wife-beater' libel case against British newspaper over Amber Heard allegations

The biggest moments from Johnny Depp's libel trial against News Group Newspapers

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="573399" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amber-Heard">Amber Heard</keyword>'s make-up artist, Melanie Inglessis, told the High Court in London that she concealed bruises on Heard's face with make-up before the actress appeared on <keyword id="6396613" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="James-Corden">James Corden</keyword>'s "<keyword id="3120766" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Late-Late-Show">The Late Late Show</keyword>" in 2015.</li><li><keyword id="10419" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Johnny-Depp">Johnny Depp</keyword> is suing News Group Newspapers for a 2018 article in <keyword id="168486" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-Sun">The Sun</keyword> that called him a "wife beater" in reference to his former marriage with Heard.</li><li>Appearing as a witness, Heard told the High Court that the night before the talk show appearance, she had suffered "one of the worst and most violent nights" with Johnny Depp, accusing him of physical abuse that she says resulted in injuries to her face, which he denies.</li><li>Stylist Samantha McMillen <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DsnW9kMAD8ztk88QqFzw09CbvUfgD2rmUkn8B3WwWNA8.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTIzVDE1OjE2OjMzLjU0NloiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kcmj5mf7%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_bc6bebe1450f49a0bd44d624e3bca8b9.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Samantha%20McMillen%20witness%20statement&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">had previously testified</a> that she saw no marks or injuries on Heard on the day of the Corden talk show appearance.</li><li>However, Inglessis said that McMillen saw Heard after Inglessis had hidden the marks with concealer</li></ul>Amber Heard's former make-up artist told the High Court in London that she covered up bruises on the actress's face before her appearance on James Corden's "The Late Late Show" in 2015. Make-up artist Melanie Inglessis appeared in court on Wednesdayas a witness for News Group Newspapers, which is being sued for <keyword id="924181" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Libel">libel</keyword> by Johnny Depp over a 2018 article in The Sun that called him a "wife beater" in reference to his former marriage with Heard. Depp denies these accusations and has counter-accused Heard of abusing him, which she denies. In her witness statement on Monday (seen by Insider), Heard told the High Court that the night before her appearance on "The Late Late Show" was "one of the worst and most violent nights" she had experienced during her relationship with Depp that she says resulted in injuries to her face. <div type="image" title="Johnny Depp arriving at court" height="1200" width="1600" msid="77134023" hostid="261"></div> According to the court <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DsnW9kMAD8ztk88QqFzw09CbvUfgD2rmUkn8B3WwWNA8.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTIzVDE1OjE2OjMzLjU0NloiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kcxo6yo3%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_4366862e788f4a30ab5bc9a2ed31e167.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Day%2012%20tr'script%20Depp%20v%20NGN%2022%20July%202020&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">transcripts</a>, which Insider has seen, Heard described the acts of violence as including slapping, punching, and headbutting. Depp denies all accusations of physical abuse. Depp's lawyer Eleanor Laws QC pointed out in court that Heard appeared on Corden's talk show the next day — December 15, 2015 — with no visible injuries. "That's what you looked like on the show, no injury is there?" Laws said on Wednesday. Heard replied that she had "tonnes of injuries." Inglessis appeared in court to provide evidence of the injuries on Wednesday. Inglessis told the High Court that when she saw Heard before the Corden appearance, there were "missing chunks of hair on the top of the crown" of her head and that she had "no other choice" but "to cover the injury on her [Heard's] lip" with bright red lipstick. Her <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DsnW9kMAD8ztk88QqFzw09CbvUfgD2rmUkn8B3WwWNA8.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTIzVDE1OjE2OjMzLjU0NloiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kcxs7142%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_d1f4c2c65ff84b80b2a7cd173589abd9.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Melanie%20Inglessis%20declaration&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">statement read:</a> "When I saw Amber, I immediately noticed that she had a split lip and a bruise near her eye. I also saw that there was a chunk of hair missing from her head. Amber told me that Johnny had tried to suffocate her." Stylist Samantha McMillen <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DsnW9kMAD8ztk88QqFzw09CbvUfgD2rmUkn8B3WwWNA8.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTIzVDE1OjE2OjMzLjU0NloiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kcmj5mf7%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_bc6bebe1450f49a0bd44d624e3bca8b9.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Samantha%20McMillen%20witness%20statement&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">had previously testified</a> that she saw no marks or injuries on Heard on the day of the Corden talk show appearance. In her <a href="https://wixlabs-pdf-dev.appspot.com/assets/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fpdfproxy%3Finstance%3DsnW9kMAD8ztk88QqFzw09CbvUfgD2rmUkn8B3WwWNA8.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiMzQxZWY5OGUtZTBjZS00YzUwLWI4N2ItNGExODJiYjBiYzhkIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxM2VlMTBhMy1lY2I5LTdlZmYtNDI5OC1kMmY5ZjM0YWNmMGQiLCJtZXRhU2l0ZUlkIjoiODBiMDgxNzEtY2U3My00NDg4LWIzNjktZmUzOTM0YjA1MDRhIiwic2lnbkRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA3LTIzVDE1OjE2OjMzLjU0NloiLCJkZW1vTW9kZSI6ZmFsc2UsImFpZCI6IjQ3YzIxNzg0LTM1MTktNDI4Zi1iNGE1LWU0MjU1NTY5NTE1ZCIsImJpVG9rZW4iOiJiNGFlNzhmZi0yZWJkLTA4ZDgtMGIxMi1iNDIxMWYwMGVjYzciLCJzaXRlT3duZXJJZCI6IjVkZjUwNTBkLTQ1ZWQtNGFlZS1hMTU5LWIxODY5ZGZiMjk0YyJ9%26compId%3Dcomp-kcmj5mf7%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdocs.wixstatic.com%2Fugd%2F5df505_bc6bebe1450f49a0bd44d624e3bca8b9.pdf#page=1&amp;links=true&amp;originalFileName=Samantha%20McMillen%20witness%20statement&amp;locale=en&amp;allowDownload=true&amp;allowPrinting=truep;allowPrinting=true">written statement</a>, McMillen wrote: "I saw her throughout the day of December 16th, 2015, in good light, at close range, wearing no makeup. Throughout the day of December 16th, 2015, I could see clearly that Ms. Heard did not have any visible marks, bruises, cuts, or injuries to her face or any other part of her body." However, Inglessis said that McMillen saw Heard after Inglessis had hidden the marks with concealer <a href="https://www.cbr.com/amber-heard-makeup-artist-deny-claims-fabricated-bruises/">Laws also cited medical notes that said a nurse, Erin Boerum</a>, had examined Heard after the alleged incident and also saw no visible injuries bar a bleeding lip. Laws then suggested that Heard could have bitten her own lip on purpose to fake an injury. Heard denied this and said: "I had two black eyes, a broken nose, a broken rib ... I had bruises all over my body." Heard and Inglessis also denied fabricating bruises on Heard's body in order to frame Depp for the alleged injuries after Laws suggested they could have been fake <div type="image" title="Amber Heard arriving at court" height="1200" width="1600" msid="77134025" hostid="261"></div> The case between Depp and The Sun started on July 7, and has so far <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-court-case-the-sun-2020-7">included testimony from Depp</a>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/amber-heard-first-day-witness-box-johnny-depp-court-case-2020-7">Heard</a>, as well as from <a href="https://www.insider.com/winona-ryder-vanessa-paradis-support-ex-johnny-depp-witness-statements-2020-7">Depp's famous exes including Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis</a>. Depp and Heard first met on the set of the 2011 movie "The Rum Diary" and were later married in 2015. <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/amber-heard-files-for-divorce-from-johnny-depp/">Heard filed for divorce two years later in 2017</a>. Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/elon-musk-offered-security-amber-heard-texts-court-johnny-depp-2020-7">Elon Musk offered to 'arrange 24/7 security' for Amber Heard in 2016, texts read in court show</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/johnny-depp-amber-heard-relationship-timeline-2020-7">A complete timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/winona-ryder-vanessa-paradis-support-ex-johnny-depp-witness-statements-2020-7">Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis showed support for their ex Johnny Depp in his ongoing libel trial</a>

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