Heard has been ordered to produce her arrest record (Johnny Depp said she has been even arrested TWICE in a text message) and receipts of the 7millions charity donations.
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 as part of discovery in a defamation case brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Depp contends that Heard was the abuser during their 15-month marriage that began in 2015. 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.
The complaint notes that Heard was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge involving a former girlfriend.
Circuit Court Judge Bruce White denied some of the requests for documents by Depp’s legal team but ordered Heard to produce her arrest record as well as information related to her claims that the $7 million she received in her 2017 divorce settlement had been given to charity. Depp contends that Heard invented the abuse claims to get a larger settlement and market herself as a courageous survivor.