Two years to the day after Amber Heard published an editorial describing the backlash she faced as a domestic abuse survivor, a Virginia judge ordered the actress to produce her arrest record in the defamation case filed against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Her arrest record, which involves an altercation with a different romantic partner more than a decade ago, is “crucial to key allegations in Mr. Depp’s complaint,” said the actor’s lawyer, Benjamin Chew of Brown Rudnick, during a hearing Friday in Fairfax County.
Thing is, though, that I’m pretty sure there have been more arrests than Heard’s 2009 arrest for domestic violence against her wife Tasya Van Ree. As I understand it, there have been a couple of DUI’s and rumor has it that there was at least one other arrest for domestic violence. I don’t know against whom, but it looks like we’re going to find out.
If this is true and Amber Has multiple arrests against her for domestic violence, it could be crucial in helping Johnny Depp establish that it was Heard who was violent in their relationship.
On the same day, a subpoena was issued to the ACLU, one of the organizations to which Heard swears she donated part of her 7 million dollar divorce settlement. It has long been rumored that Heard didn’t donate to these organizations as she swore in her divorce documents, legal court documents, that she would.
I don’t know exactly what could happen to Heard if she kept the money and didn’t donate it, or didn’t donate all of it, like she said she would. Contempt of court, maybe? Or would this even be grounds for the divorce to be revisited? Could she owe that money back to Johnny? We’ll have to wait and see what the fallout is, but the fact is that she will now have to prove in a court of law what she did with that money.
If nothing else, it goes to her credibility if she swore to donate that money and didn’t. Not that her credibility holds much weight anymore.
Three days later, the court issued a subpoena for iO Tillet Wright, longtime friend and flying monkey of Heard’s. The service notice doesn’t say whether it was Heard’s side or Johnny’s that requested the subpoena. It would be interesting to see who called iO. It’ll be even more interesting to see how far iO is willing to go to perjure himself for Heard. It’s one thing to lie to a court abroad where they can’t touch you. It’s another thing to perjure oneself in America where they can easily find you and level perjury charges. It’ll be interesting to see how far any of her friends are willing to perjure themselves.
It bears note that some of those previously pro-Heard folks are deleting their social media en masse. I don’t know if it’s related to the defamation case that’s looming ever larger, but it’s certainly possible.
By all accounts, it looks like Amber Heard’s legal world is crashing down on her. I wonder what her response will be when Johnny wins his defamation case, and then wins his appeal in the libel case he leveled against the Sun tabloid and subsequently lost. I wonder what the whole world’s reaction will be. So many have been so quick to vilify him. I wonder how quick they’ll be to vindicate him.
Time alone will tell.