Amber Heard Accuses Johnny Depp of Sexual Assault as Defamation Trial Begins

Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp sexually assaulting her when she was black-out drunk, Rolling Stone reports. 

The accusations were made public during Depp’s defamation trial against Heard over a Washington Post op-ed where she wrote that she was a domestic abuse victim. During the trial, which is unfolding at the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia, Depp’s legal team of Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez claimed that Heard was instead violent in their marriage, which started in 2015 and lasted a year. 

“The only medical report of an injury during their relationship was a severe one sustained by Mr. Depp after an argument shortly after their marriage, while the couple was in Australia,” Vasquez said. “She threw a vodka bottle at him that hit his hand and exploded, severing the end of one of his fingers.”

Heard’s attorney, Ben Rottenborn, argued that Depp wants to “turn this case into a six-week-long public spectacle of the most intimate aspects of their relationship and their marriage,” while Depp’s team said that the sexual assault claim “was never part of her allegations of abuse in 2016.”

This story is being updated.