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Two years after a British judgment established the violence that the actor allegedly inflicted on his ex-wife, the two stars face off this time in an American court during very well-attended hearings, in particular by researcher Jamie R Abrams who deciphers the secret stakes.
The line has been growing every day for almost two weeks in front of the court in Fairfax, a modest town in Virginia whose inhabitants pass one after the other in front of the television cameras to swear that really, ordinarily, nothing happens there. never anything. If there is a crowd today – made up of curious locals and elsewhere, journalists, voyeurs, admirers of Tim Burton films or obsessed with Pirates of the Caribbean, and many people with various combinations of all these traits – it’s because he puts on a unique show for six weeks. That of two planetary stars who came to bare the flesh of their lives, their wounds and what they shared of intimacy before accusing each other of having ransacked everything: the ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, lovers since 2012, married in 2015, divorced less than two years later, and who have since torn each other apart from one trial to another.
Amber Heard, 36 today, denounced the first in 2016, while they were in the process of separation, the verbal and physical brutality which her husband, twenty-two years her senior, often alcoholic or drugged, and photos had circulated at the time of his bruised face as a result of the violence. Two years later, the actor, who to this day denies having ever hit his girlfriend or any other woman, reported on the blows that she would have inflicted on him when their relationship declined.
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