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DAY 11

This day was better than the last. We had actual live humans for the most part, and some actual significant witnesses!

The first was a video deposition though with the ACLU head of legal whose name I forgot. Depp's team spoke first and they spent arguably too much time discussing how much money Amber donated to the ACLU. If you remember correctly, Amber Heard bragged about how she wanted nothing from Johnny Depp's divorce and that she was a brave, selfless woman who wanted none of his money. As such, of the $7 million divorce settlement, she said she would give $3.5 million to ACLU and $3.5 million to Children's Hospital. Keep in mind, in their legally binding divorce settlement she stated that was exactly what she was spending it on. With Johnny Depp's amount he donated after she bragged about it (breaking the confidentiality of the divorce settlement btw), and then Elon Musk donated half a million, and then an "anonymous donor" donated for Amber Heard (also likely Elon), so $0 of Amber's own money was given to ACLU. I anticipate they spent so long on this because Amber Heard is pretty much a piece of shit that used both of these charities as a shield against anyone who doubted her domestic abuse claims and didn't give anywhere near the amount she swore she did. She also refused to sign a pledge agreement too, swearing she would pay the amount and they basically outright said they were simply "hopeful" that they would get the money.

Amber Heard is also an ACLU Ambassador, who they make special people like Amber who have a significant following and a prior expertise in that area (such as being a victim of domestic abuse). I should note this guy was VERY careful when speaking because he knows how absolutely awful this makes the ACLU look. And imo, the ACLU is not nearly as good as they have been once upon a time.

But after shorting ACLU on their promised donation, and after Johnny Depp had said in an interview he never abused Amber or anyone else, Amber Heard used the ACLU to draft her op-ed. They wrote all the generic stuff about domestic abuse and told Amber to write her personal experience. There's images floating around with drafts of the documents, but the only part that Amber Heard wrote were the parts where she was saying Johnny Depp's name, and the ACLU legal head stated that there was a lot of discussion about avoiding the NDA. And then, ultimately, he admitted that it was clear to every publication that she was discussing Johnny Depp because every major outlet was reporting it as her discussing her domestic abuse at the hands of Amber Heard, and the timeline. Oh, and Amber demanded that they wait until Aquaman was out before publishing it, and not sooner, so it reached as many people as possible.

So what this means is that it's proven, without a shadow of a doubt, that the op-ed clearly references Johnny Depp, which Amber and her team denied, and that means that there is no question she did this purposefully to damage Johnny Depp. So the only question is: did she lie about being a victim? This is a significant hurdle that they leaped. Also, this makes ACLU and their team of lawyers as well as Amber's team of lawyers look so stupid for thinking this passed a breach of confidentiality test in the first place, like come on.

Oh, and despite Amber being so proud to announce that she's donating to the ACLU, she told them not to put out a press release about it. And then she never donated another dime. And the ACLU claimed that she had pledged the $3.5 million to a Reuters article that was used in the UK court, despite Amber not pledging and the email chains of their HR department staying up at late trying to get around this and not lie. And boy was this dude sweating and trying his best to throw his entire organization and the Amber Heard, their ambassador, under the bus.

Elaine also asked her questions and attempted to do damage control but simply didn't plug those holes well at all. Like she asked if there was an understanding that she was going to keep paying the ACLU and he just maintained they were just "hopeful" she would.

Also please note that the ACLU spent $86k in attorney's fees to fight having to be involved in this case whatsoever. They did NOT want to be a part of this.

Next up is an actual in-person witness, Edward White, who is an obscenely rich accountant guy who Johnny brought on to help with his finances after he got royally screwed over. His testimony was significant for the divorce proceedings. He confirmed that on the day of Amber Heard's birthday where Johnny was supposedly horrifically drunk when arriving, Johnny had barely anything to drink.

White said that at first during the divorce proceedings, Amber demanded $4 million, to $5 million, to $5.5 million, to $7 million, and then $7 million and she demanded that Depp $500k to her attorneys, then demanded all of the community liabilities for their relationship which amounted to $13.5 million, and eventually she demanded $14,250,000. And then, she demanded all of it be paid free of taxation. And that it would require him to make $30 million annually. And they objected to stop the rest of this because this is absolutely devastating. lol In the end, Johnny paid $7 million to Amber, $500k for her attorney's fees, and then the $13.5 (for both their halves) million in community liabilities for a whopping $14,250,000, for a marriage that lasted 15 months, all while burdening the tax liability.

At first, they negotiated it all going directly to the charities, but then Amber demanded it be made directly to her instead. And then he said he was chastised for making payments to the charities after Amber bragged about having donated to them per Johnny's request. There were so many objections here which were complete bullshit that this Judge sustained.

Want to know how much wine Amber drank? $160,000 per year. Judged by the fact that without Amber around now, Johnny spends "virtually nothing" on wine. Kinda surprised they let this one in. lol Maybe making up for bad objections she sustained.

Then Rottenborn came in and just badgered the fuck out of this old man. He came across as so fucking unlikable here. It's so weird to me that they just go up there and piss off every single witness, even when they're completely neutral.

He brings up the birthday again where they dealt with Johnny getting a plan to get his financial issues in check and he was like "You gave Johnny Depp catastrophic news, right?" He was like no, we had a plan to fix his catastrophic news. And it was used as a gotcha where he used the word "catastrophic news" to describe the initial time he told Johnny and it was so dumb. It's just all nitpicks from Rottenborn and nobody is going to go "Oh man he said at one point that he told Johnny catastrophic news. I don't know if I believe that Amber, noted horrifically awful human being, actually demanded untaxable $14,250,000 in their divorce. It's so pedantic.

I'm going to rant for a moment too. Rottenborn just keeps asking "Did I read that right?" This isn't a proper question to ask. You're supposed to ask them a question about whatever you present them. The fact that Rottenborn can read something correctly is wholly irrelevant and honestly Depp's team should just go "Objection, Mr. Rottenborn's ability to read is irrelevant to the case" each time and just piss him off and force him to ask real questions. The man dead ass read a text message and said nothing else, and then White went "Do you want me to respond?" "No, I just want you to tell me if I read that right." "...I believe you read it right." Like it's absurd.