Depp Vowed ‘Total Global Humiliation’ for ‘Gold-Digging, 50-Cent Stripper’ Heard, Claims Lawyer
08:16 GMT 26.05.2022 (Updated: 09:56 GMT 26.05.2022)
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Amber Heard is apparently due to end her witness testimony on Thursday in the Fairfax County courthouse in the $50Mln defamation trial ex-husband Johnny Depp brought against her that started on 11 April and is set to wrap up on Friday.
'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Johnny Depp vowed that his ex-wife Amber Heard was going to get “total global humiliation,” according to a text message read out in the Fairfax County courthouse by her lawyer on 25 May.
The defamation trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is taking place in the state of Virginia and is set to conclude this week.
The Hollywood actor also spouted some jaw-dropping invective against the 'Aquaman' starlet and her then-boyfriend, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, the text read out by Heard’s attorney, Ben Rottenborn, showed.
“She’s begging for total global humiliation. She’s gonna get it,” said the message, dated August 2016 and sent to Depp’s former talent agent, Christian Carino.
GRAPHIC: Rottenborn reads this text sent from #JohnnyDepp on 8/15/16 presumably about #AmberHeard.
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) May 25, 2022
"She's begging for total global humiliation....She's gonna get it." pic.twitter.com/mJIs98mMbT
“I’m so f***ing happy she wants to go to fight this out!!! She will hit the wall hard!!!... And I cannot wait to have this waste of a c*** guzzler out of my life!!!,” wrote Depp, according to the lawyer.
He also purportedly wielded some highly imaginative insults targeting the woman he was married to from 2015 to 2017.
“I have no mercy, no fear and not an ounce of emotion, or what I once thought was love for this gold-digging, low-level, dime-a-dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market,” Depp was cited as writing to Carino.
Referring to his new relationship after his split with Heard, Depp stated in the missive cited in court:
“I met a f***ing sublime little Russian here… Which made me realise the time I blew on that 50-cent stripper… I wouldn’t touch her with a goddam glove… I can only hope that karma kicks in and takes the gift of breath from her.”
In an apparent reference to Elon Musk, who Amber Heard is believed to have dated when the billionaire was in the middle of divorce proceedings with actress Talulah Riley, he is quoted as writing:
“Sorry, man… But, NOW, I will stop at nothing!!! Let’s see if mollusk has a pair… Come see me face to face… I’ll show him things he’s never seen before… Like, the other side of his d**k when I slice it off.”
In court, Johnny Depp did not deny writing the text cited, saying it was prompted by the abuse allegations his ex-wife had showered upon him and the debilitating effect it had had on his reputation and career.
Depp did, however, deny writing another text introduced in court by Heard’s team, in which he was accused of writing on 22 February 2017 that “I want to change her understanding of what it is like to be thrashed around like a pleading Mackrel (sic)… I NEED. I WANT. I TAKE.”
The messages were purportedly sent to Depp’s assistant Stephen Deuters, and came from his phone. The American actor and producer, winner of a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, suggested someone else might have sent the abusive messages.
Previously, the texts in question had been brought up in Depp’s 2020 UK trial against The Sun, which he lost. The actor sued the publication for libel over an article that called him a “wife beater.” The court had ruled at the time that the majority of Heard’s abuse allegations were “substantially true.”
At present, Depp is suing Heard for $50Mln in defamation over her 2018 op-ed in the The Washington Post (printed in Fairfax County).
Back then, the actress referred to herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse,” though she never mentioned Depp by name.
Depp, 58, has insisted the abuse allegations were an elaborate "hoax". He also accused Heard of committing acts of domestic violence against him, in some instances even causing him bodily injury.
According to an earlier testimony by Depp’s agent, the damning essay in the Post was “catastrophic” to the actor’s career, as his $22.5Mln spoken deal with Disney to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow for a sixth installment of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise was scuppered.
Heard, 36, countersued the A-list star for $100 million, alleging he and his lawyer Adam Waldman defamed her by mounting a smear campaign against her. The trial is set to conclude on 27 May.
