This Owl attends the sad spectacle of the judicial row in which the cumbiambero John Kelvin and the mother of his children, the Cuban Dalia Durán, find themselves. Scandals, accusations, alleged assaults by a couple who have taken their toxic relationship to a painful level. It is the ‘talk’ of Chollywood.
But in the real Hollywood there was a million-dollar judicial fight between two husbands and brilliant movie stars. The trial between Johnny ‘Jack Sparrow’ Depp and his beautiful ex-wife Amber Heard looked like something out of a cult divorce movie: ‘The War of the Roses’ (1989), with , directed by Danny DeVito.
In that famous film, the litigating spouses come to hate each other so much that, in the end, not content with gouging out their eyes in court, they end up murdering each other in a brawl over possession of their residence.
Instead, the most amazing thing about the trial between Depp and Heard is that they did not complain about the divorce, which they had already faced and for which Deppin 2017, he had to pay Amber 7 million dollars! Nor was it a lawsuit for physical or psychological abuse, but rather a lawsuit filed in 2019 by Depp -‘for defamation’- against his ex-wife and whose process began in April 2022.
From the beginning he splashed ‘mud with a fan’, especially to the beautiful . For the famous actor of ‘Young Scissorhands’, the actress slandered him in an article signed by her in the prestigious Washington Post, entitled ‘I spoke out against sexual violence and faced the wrath of our culture.’
THE DAMAGE TO HIS CAREER
According to Depp, in that note, without mentioning her name, she maintained that “she was systematically abused by domestic violence for two years.” The plaintiff in his lawsuit claimed that he was the victim of a hoax concocted by Amber and it did irreparable damage to his career, because four days after the article was published, the Disney franchise terminated its contract for a new sequel to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, franchise that had brought him the biggest profits of his entire career. Johnny’s defense knew very well what his patronage wanted.
Apart from the 50 million compensation, he wanted to “clean up his image”, because in the divorce trial he was not convicted of domestic violence, but the statements left him in a bad light before public opinion.
‘Overnight I became in my fifties, thanks to , a drunkard and coquero who beats women. I will carry this for the rest of my life,” he said. Depp. However, the star had an ace up his sleeve: he released audios of Amber where she admits to ‘having hit him’.
Then another recording is heard, because Depp, Knowing that this union was no longer enough and no one was going to believe that he was the one attacked, he decided to record it. There the witnesses were surprised to hear the hysterical screams of Amber at the same time that he called him a coward!!, you look like a crybaby!!, fat!! Or when she would rant: I hit you, but I didn’t punch you!!
When asked by his lawyer what he did when he was attacked by his wife, he replied that he “would go blank, like when my mother attacked me and ran to lock me in the bathroom.” Another testimonial from ‘Sparrow’ that caused noises of surprise and indignation in those attending the room was when he detailed how, according to him, Amber threw a bottle of vodka at him and amputated his finger during a fight in Australia.
The doctor who reconstructed his middle finger came to the room, for which his complaint was supported by the doctor. All this avalanche of accusations left a bad stop, who denied the accusations. According to the actor before the stand, fights could start with a slap, the throw of the TV remote control or a full glass of wine in the face.
The figures that were handled in the process were astronomical. . The jury agreed with him and sentenced Amber to pay him 15 million dollars for defaming him in the Washington Post and for ‘punitive damages.’ It was an ending with a Hollywood blockbuster title: ‘Pirate’s Revenge’. I turn off the TV.
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