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- Johnny Depp's second defamation lawsuit.

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This time against Amber
Heard starts today,

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Monday, April 11th.

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You're maybe thinking like,

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wait, hasn't this happened before?

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Let's do a quick catch
up of Depp's and Heard's

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tumultuous timeline.

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In 2015, the couple got
married in a civil ceremony

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but by 2017, they got divorced.

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The year in 2018,

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the Sun referred to Depp as a wife beater

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causing him to file a libel
suit against the paper.

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Later that same year,

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Amber Heard wrote an op-ed
in the Washington post

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about her experiences with domestic abuse

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and how it related to the me too movement.

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Though she didn't name
Johnny Depp explicitly

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in the article,

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in 2019, he filed a 50
million lawsuit against her

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for defamation claiming that
the article caused his career

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as the lead of the pirates

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of the Caribbean franchise to
walk the plank, so to speak.

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- Ah, I take some of you've heard of me.

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- In 2019, Depp's lawsuit trial

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against the Sun lasted 16 days.

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And ultimately the UK Court
decided the Sun was legit

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in calling him a wife beater
and refused him a repeal.

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And now the second
defamation suit this time

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against Amber Heard is
finally taking place

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after being delayed by COVID.

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Jury selection for the trial begins today

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in Fairfax, Virginia

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where the Washington post is
printed and incredibly normal,

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not famous, well behaved
witnesses like James Franco

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and Elon Musk are expected
to take the stand.

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- Yeah.

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- Thank you.

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(crowd claps)

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- Is that it?

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What?

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- Defamation suits are infamously tricky

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because it's a lot of,

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he said and she said to
be sorted out in court.

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In this case because the
defamation was written,

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it's liable.

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So it's much easier to suss out.

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Leading up to the trial,

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Amber Heard post on her
social media accounts

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that she never named Depp in her writing,

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and rather wrote a piece
about the price women pay

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for speaking up against men in power.

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The trial is expected
to last about a month

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and we have no doubts,

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it's gonna make headlines.

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(funky music)