The actor who joked about drowning and burning his then wife Amber Heard has been the toast of Cannes and has snagged $20m to hawk perfume
. She is reportedly taking a temporary break from acting. And, as far as I can tell, nobody has given her $20m to promote perfume.So, to recap: a man has emerged out of a trial concerning allegations of domestic abuse with his career not just intact, but flourishing. The woman at the centre of the case, however, has ended up fleeing the country after vicious abuse. Sounds like an incredibly familiar story, doesn’t it? Sounds like a story as old as time.
If Depp had lost the defamation case would things be much different? Would Heard be the toast of the town and would Depp be hiding out with his reputation in tatters? I doubt it. Let’s not forget that the actor lost a UK libel case against the Sun in 2020 after the newspaper described him as a. In the ruling, the judge, Mr Justice Nicol, said: “I have found that the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms Heard by Mr Depp have been proved to the civil standard.
The fact that Depp was basically labelled a “wife beater” by a UK court didn’t hurt his relationship with Dior Sauvage, who have stood by the actor since 2015. And the US lawsuit clearly only strengthened their partnership. Three months after he won the defamation suit the fragrance brand wason its Instagram with captions like: “Profound and authentic. Johnny Depp embodies the heady magic of Sauvage.
Profound and authentic? Depp may have won his US lawsuit but who can forget the misogyny that ran through it? Who can forget the viciousness of the text message he sent to a friend in 2013, joking about killing Heard? “Let’s burn Amber,” he wrote in that text. “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.” This wasn’t some one-off joke made in bad taste; Depp routinely described women in crude, misogynistic terms.
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