Johnny Depp and his lawyer Joelle Rich are dating but in response to a brand new report by TMZ, the couple`s isn`t exclusive.
This week, it was revealed that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor had a romantic relationship with Rich, one of many defence attorneys who defended him in his libel case in opposition to the Sun in 2018.
The verdict in that trial, wherein Depp`s attorneys argued that the Sun had defamed the actor by calling him a “wife beater,” got here down in late 2020.
12 particular incidents of the “Edward Scissorhands” star bodily abusing his ex-wife Amber Heard have been deemed to be “basically accurate” by the court docket presiding over the case.
The enchantment was shortly submitted by Depp`s counsel, but it was rejected in March 2021.
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Rich wrote in a press release she gave to Deadline on the time that she “seriously questioned” the decision. She nonetheless maintained optimism over Depp`s pending authorized actions within the US in opposition to Heard.
“Complete, irrefutable evidence of the truth in the U.S. libel case against Ms. Heard where she will have to provide full disclosure,” she predicted the US trial would present.
Heard, who had a romantic relationship with Depp from 2012 till 2016, was required to talk about her experiences of abuse throughout that point although it was Depp who had filed the instances that began each the US and UK court docket battles.
The US lawsuit passed off in a courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, in the course of the course of April and May of 2022. It was primarily based on the allegation that Heard had defamed Depp by referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post.
The jury infamously discovered Heard responsible of defaming Depp on June 1, 2022, and they ordered her to pay him USD 15 million in damages. In addition, they gave the “Aquaman” actress $2 million in restitution for Heard`s public defamation by one in every of Depp`s attorneys.
Although there have been speculations that Depp had a love relationship with Camille Vasquez, one in every of his defence attorneys on the US trial, the lawyer categorically denied these reviews.
Since then, it has been proven that Rich did in actual fact attend the trial on the Fairfax courthouse.
This isn`t Rich`s first encounter with internationally famend figures whereas working in her subject.
According to Page Six, the lawyer, a accomplice on the agency Schillings, efficiently defended Meghan Markle within the Duchess` 2019 case in opposition to the Daily Mail over the publishing of a non-public letter to her estranged father, successful on behalf of her shopper in 2021.
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