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Johnny Depp Accuses Amber Heard of Assault as Libel Trial Kicks Off

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Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentJohnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard, both masked, arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday for the explosive start of a libel trial.Depp is suing the publisher of The Sun, News Group Newspapers, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, for describing him as a “wife-beater,” based on allegations Heard had made.Depp “is not and never has been a wife beater,” his attorney David Sherborne said in an opening statement.

He added that Depp alleged it was “Heard who was the one who started physical fights, who punched or hit him […] she was the abuser, not him.”In the witness box, with Heard seated in the public gallery, Depp told the court that she had “said to the world.

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