Opening statements in Johnny Depp’s explosive defamation lawsuit in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard are set to start in a Virginia court docket Tuesday morning — as followers camped out in a single day in a present of help for the embattled actor.
The statements will likely be heard from 10 a.m. in Fairfax County Courtroom by a panel of seven jurors, plus 4 alternates, who had been chosen late Monday within the long-awaited and high-profile trial.
Greater than a dozen followers — some from so far as Portugal and London — had already lined up outdoors the courthouse earlier than dawn, together with a number of who camped out in a single day, in an effort to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood stars.
Maryland therapeutic massage therapist Tiffany Lynn, 39, instructed The Submit she hoped to catch a glimpse of Depp contained in the courtroom on day two after solely seeing him whisked off in a automotive a day earlier.
“I really feel what's going on with [Johnny] and his private life being put on the market, the reality will come out. He must get justice and be vindictive,” Lynn stated.
Yvonne de Boer flew in from Los Angeles and stated she was operating excessive on “Johnny adrenaline.”
“I’m gonna be right here for 31 days however gotta commute to LA however will likely be right here for the decision. I consider him and I do know he’s harmless and I need him to get his justice,” she instructed The Submit.
Choose Penney Azcarate has already banned Depp and Heard from signing autographs or posing for footage in or outdoors the courthouse with their supporters in a bid to forestall the case from turning right into a Hollywood circus.
Depp is looking for $50 million in damages from his ex-wife, who he claims defamed him when she wrote in a 2018 Washington Submit op-ed that she was a sufferer of “sexual violence.”
Whereas Depp wasn’t named within the op-ed, the actor claims it ruined his popularity and profession after it was broadly assumed Heard was writing about their five-year relationship.
Heard’s legal professionals sought to have the case tried in California, the place the actors each stay, however a decide dominated Depp was inside his rights to carry the case in Virginia as a result of The Washington Submit’s pc servers for its on-line version are situated in Fairfax County.
The trial is anticipated to final greater than a month and embrace testimony from each Heard and Depp and a string of different high-profile names, together with Elon Musk and James Franco.
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