By Aaron Miller
Amber Heard’s legal team has rested their defence case in the defamation trial brought against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Heard is being sued by Depp for $50m for claiming he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Although she didn’t name him, he claims her allegations impacted his ability to work. She is pursuing a counterclaim of $100m with Depp’s legal team currently arguing a motion to strike the claim.
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The theatrical case has captured the attention of the world media as the former lovers desperately used all possible arguments to advance their position and try and win the case.
Supermodel and Depp-ex Kate Moss is set to testify on Wednesday as a rebuttal witness for the actor. Her appearance in the case was sparked after Heard’s mention of her during testimony referring to a rumour about an alleged altercation between the two when they dated in the 1990s.
Moss is expected to testify that her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp ‘caught her and tended to after she tripped on stairs in flip flops during a vacation in Jamaica’. The testimony will pour ice cold water on Amber Heard’s courtroom suggestion that he pushed her, and that it made her believe he was a domestic abuser.
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A source familiar with the case told the New York Post Moss will talk about an incident when she ‘was walking down some stairs in Jamaica’.
‘She was wearing flip flips and she slipped on the last two stairs. Johnny caught her and tended to her.’
Heard had brought up the model in her testimony earlier this month, saying she felt connected to Moss due to a rumor Depp pushed her down the stairs when they were dating back in the 1990s.
But by mentioning the alleged misconduct, Heard inadvertently allowed Depp’s lawyers to call her as a witness to discuss the rumour, which sources say is not true.
On Monday, a hand surgeon told the court that Depp’s account of the severed finger fight was inconsistent with the injury . A psychiatrist who said the actor’s behaviour was “consistent with a perpetrator of intimate partner violence”.
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