Johnny Depp case: Actor's lawyers play video showing Amber Heard attacking her sister

Johnny Depp's prison crew stated they obtained the video from a "confidential" supply on Thursday night, hours after Whitney Henriquez testified in court docket that she had in no way been attacked via Heard.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's divorce finalised in 2017.

Amber Heard’s sister denied Friday that she had lied to a London court docket after Johnny Depp’s legal professionals in his libel swimsuit in opposition to a British tabloid introduced video photos that they declare confirmed his ex-wife was once violent toward her.

His felony crew stated they acquired the video from a "confidential" supply on Thursday night, hours after Whitney Henriquez testified in court docket that she had by no means been attacked by means of Heard and that she was once no longer worried of her.

Depp, 57, is suing News Group Newspapers, the writer of The Sun, and the newspaper’s government editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that labeled the actor a “wife beater.” Depp has advised the courtroom that he was once the one abused through Heard and that she had a records of being violent towards him.

The Sun’s protection depends on 14 allegations made with the aid of Heard of violence by way of Depp between 2013 and 2016, in settings as different as a rented residence in Australia, his personal island in the Bahamas and a personal jet.

The video at the coronary heart of the courtroom court cases Friday, the closing session earlier than the two aspects sum up their arguments, was once unused actuality TV photos from 2006 or 2007, in accordance to Depp’s lawyers, and indicates Henriquez by means of a pool with a crew of lady friends. One of them is heard saying, "Did you get in a battle or something?" and "I can’t accept as true with Amber beat your ass." Another seems to check out Henriquez’s cheek and arm, and Henriquez says she is now not going to speak about it.After viewing the video in court, Henriquez stated the argument with her sister had been a "verbal" one and that her buddies had been "trying to make a very, very boring story extra interesting."

Henriquez additionally denied that she had any accidents when the video was once recorded and stated that her pals had been "looking for accidents that had been now not there, attempting to create a narrative to make some thing extra interesting, to create some thing out of nothing," she said.

Depp’s lawyer, David Sherborne, had stated beforehand that it is "quite clear" that Heard assaulted her sister and that accidents to Henriquez are being examined on the tape.

Henriquez is a quintessential witness in the trial as she has alleged to have viewed Depp strike her sister. In her testimony on Thursday, Henriquez stated Depp hit Heard "multiple times" throughout an alleged incident at the couple’s Los Angeles condo in March 2015. She additionally stated that her sister had punched Depp on that event however solely to shield her due to the fact she believed Depp was once going to push Henriquez down the stairs.

Depp's legal professionals have stated that Henriquez tailor-made her proof to meet her sister’s model of events, mainly round the "stairs" incident.

"Our case is she has lied in order to help her sister on this very essential trouble as to what came about on the stairs," Sherborne said.

The court docket additionally heard proof Friday from Heard’s buddy iO Tillett Wright, who stated in his witness announcement that Depp joked, after a wedding ceremony ceremony in the Bahamas, about punching Heard in the face.

"The first factor Johnny stated to me after the ceremony, as we walked to the reception, was once ‘now I can punch her in the face and no-one can do whatever about it’," he stated in his statement. “He possibly supposed it as a joke, however it is solely a comic story if it’s now not actual — and through then I knew he was once hitting her.”

Heard’s pal Raquel Pennington additionally advised the courtroom Friday that she had viewed “gashes” on Heard’s hands after she again from Australia in March 2015, and accidents to her nostril and scalp after an alleged incident in December 2015. However, Pennington stated she had by no means considered the actor “beat or hit” Heard.

In her 4 days of testimony this week, Heard, 34, accused Depp of an array of acts of violence, specially when he used to be allegedly excessive on pills or drunk. These covered throwing bottles at her "like grenades," headbutting her and even of stubbing out a cigarette on his cheek. She has claimed that she regularly feared for her lifestyles throughout their tempestuous relationship.

Depp and Heard met on the set of the movie The Rum Diary, launched in 2011. Heard filed for a divorce They legally married in Los Angeles in February 2015 — and had a 2nd ceremony days later in the Bahamas. Heard filed for divorce the following year, and it was once finalized in 2017.

After 14 days already in court, the case is due to end subsequent week with closing submissions from each sides’ felony groups on Monday and Tuesday.

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