Warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic violence.
Proceedings to select jury members began Monday morning at a courthouse in Fairfax County Virginia in a trial to hear Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. The effort is a hail mary pass for redemption after Depp lost a libel lawsuit in the UK in 2020 against the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun, after the publication called him a “wife beater” in a 2018 article. Heard’s legal team tried to have the US lawsuit thrown out based on the UK ruling, but judge Penney Azcarate ruled that it would go against precedent.
