Johnny Depp’s attorney has responded to Amber Heard’s claims of domestic violence, claiming the actress is trying to speed up the divorce settlement through her allegations.
“Amber is attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse,” the attorney said, according to court documents.
Depp is out of town and did not appear in court, but was represented by his lawyer, well-known celebrity divorce attorney, Laura Wasser.
Just yesterday Heard appeared in court with a bruise on her face, claiming Depp physically assaulted her last Saturday 21 May at their apartment.
She was granted a restraining order against Depp after he allegedly smashed an iPhone into her face.
“During the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and physically abusive to me,” she said in a sworn statement.
The restraining order is in effect until June 17 and bans Depp from coming within 100 yards of the actress.
TMZ are reporting that Depp’s legal team believe they will be able to prove Heard’s allegations are false.
They believe a photo that was uploaded to Instagram on the day after the alleged attack shows her hanging with friends without any injuries. The photo has since been deleted from the platform.
The photo (pictured above), shows Heard smiling with two friends with her hair visibly covering the right side of her face where she sustained her injuries.
On Thursday, Depp's representative addressed the split in a statement to PEOPLE.
“Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and tragic loss of his mother, Johnny will not respond to any of the salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies about his personal life," the statement said.
"Hopefully the dissolution of this short marriage will be resolved quickly.”
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I really don't want to believe this of Johnny Depp, but her eye doesn't look good. In any case if the police were called on the Saturday night I would imagine that they would have witnessed her eye. I realise she didn't charge him then but they were called. Actually I think the instagram photo is more damning against him than her, because it makes you wonder if she was purposely covering her eye because she didn't want people to notice she had a black eye.
Of course there is always the possibility that she somehow manufactured all of this but I would think it a bit hard to self inflict an eye wound like that. Not that I'm an expert.
Really awful if it is all true, this is the kind of thing you expect from Charlie Sheen, not Johnny Depp but perhaps he has just had a great PR show that made us all think he was an awesome guy. Very sad makes you wonder what else goes on behind closed doors with other stars that we just don't hear about.
Whatever happened the poor girl certainly looked miserable in that photo of her in the car. I am often envious of these celebs thinking they live some kind of charmed life, but I think seeing her misery there is a reality check for me.
I stopped thinking he was an "awesome guy" during the Pistol and Boo incident. Seriously though, the "nice guys don't inflict domestic violence" trope was undone when that "nice guy" farmer killed his whole family a couple of years ago. It actually took the shooting deaths of his wife and kids before we all took on board that "nice guys" inflict domestic violence too ... Mind you, victims sure are up against it: that farmer was still being described as a "nice guy" at the funerals.
True the pistol and boo incident was a bit off. I am no fan of Barnaby Joyce, but he was just doing his job, and it is real sense of entitlement to think that the law doesn't apply to you just because you are rich and famous, and then saying some pretty awful things about Barnaby Joyce, which whilst I don't like him I certainly think were inappropriate. Then again my understanding in this was that Johnny and Amber were both complicit in this dog business.
I know what you mean about the 'nice guy' syndrome, but of course we don't know if he is a nice guy or not because like the farmer we didn't know him. It is more a shock in real life if you think some guy that you personally know is nice and then you find out they are abusive. So far fortunately this hasn't happened to me that any of the people I like and respect have turned out to be abusers, but of course sadly I can't be sure if any of them are behind closed doors. I have dated a guy who started to be abusive towards me, fortunately that is over, but the thing that upset me was that he was nice to everyone except for me, I don't understand how someone could be so caring towards others but so dismissive of the woman he was seeing. I always think I have good radar for these kind of people but unfortunately i was way off, which made me doubt my own judgement.
Ok he's been a nice guy for a while or so it seemed hospital and school visits etc but he has talked about his history of drug use and he doesn't seem to have been sober for a while. I imagine days after losing someone he loved he probably was on a very large bender. I do believe he's nice and not as manic off drugs on drug no. His nice guy hospital appearances could just be his need to be validated. A need to feel loved and really doesn't mean he's a nice guy. I'd speculate the picture with her friends shows someone who has learned to hide things pretty well. I hope the both get help. Soon.
Innocent until proven guilty. Not something that stands with domestic violence charges. As such they are the fastest way to smear a name without any evidence whatsoever. Very typical behavior by many people, false domestic violence charges used to create leverage and advantage in divorce for money, children and to get the social groups on side. Latest research from Canada (very liberal country) is that women commit domestic abuse just as often as men. If he's guilty then he needs to get what he's going to get. If she's proven to be a liar then hopefully the reality of false allegations against men might finally get the media attention it deserves.
well said