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Kate Moss testifies that Johnny Depp never pushed her down the stairs, a rumor that Amber Heard repeated during her testimony.
Dispelling a longtime rumor repeated by Amber Heard during her sworn testimony, supermodel Kate Moss told a jury that Johnny Depp never pushed her down a staircase during their steamy relationship in the mid-1990s.
Moss fell down the stairs during a rainstorm at the GoldenEye luxury resort in Jamaica, she said.
âAs I left the room, I slid down the stairs, and I hurt my back,â Moss recalled. âI screamed because I was inâ because I didnât know what had happened to me, and I was in pain. And he came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention.â
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GoldenEye boasts on its website being the one-time home of James Bond author Ian Fleming.
Depp and Mossâs torrid relationship in the 1990s filled the tabloid press with plenty of fodder. They reportedly had sex in every room of the Chateau Marmont, a Sunset Boulevard hotel that has been populated by celebrities for nearly a century.
According to a New York Post profile of the former couple, their âpassionate rowsâ were also âlegendary.â Depp reportedly trashed a presidential suite at the Upper East Sideâs Mark Hotel after an alleged fight. A criminal court dismissed the charge against Depp, who paid The Mark more than $2,000 in damages, the paper reported.
Such gossip apparently left an impression on Heard, who testified that Moss came to mind after Depp allegedly struck Heardâs sister Whitney Henriquez on the stairs of their Los Angeles house in March 2018.
âI just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and stairs,â Heard said.
When Heard first said that, Deppâs attorney Benjamin Chew gave a fist pump to the legal team, apparently believing that the Aquaman actress had opened the door to Mossâs testimony. Depp and Moss remained close friends, and she has remained supportive of the 21 Jump Street actor as Heard painted him as a domestic abuser.
In the end, Heardâs remark only opened the proverbial door a crack. Moss testified via video link after Depp and Heardâs attorneys huddled with the judge over the scope of her examination. Judge Penney Azcarate kept that scope narrowly relegated to the controversy over the staircase.
âNo, he never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs,â Moss said, categorically.
Moss said she has never testified in any court proceeding, but asked why she chose to testify in Deppâs case, Heardâs counsel sprang into action with an objection. The supermodelâs stint on the hot seat ended shortly after that.
Even a source close to Heard described the brief testimony as the last word on Deppâs relationship with Moss.
âSo Johnny Depp didnât abuse Kate Moss,â the source said. âThat makes him 1 for 2 in the abuse column.â
âBut, to date, heâs 0 for 1 in the courtroom on the central issue in this case back when he lost the same exact case in England,â the source continued. âAnd when the jury deliberates over the singular issue in this case â whether Amber Heard can exercise her right of Freedom of Speech â heâll be 0 for 2, no matter how much his lawyers try to distract and divert the juryâs attention.â
In the United Kingdom, a judge ruled in favor of The Sun after that British tabloid published an editorial calling Depp a âwife beater,â a description the court found âsubstantially true.â Depp sued Heard in a court in Fairfax County, Va., the year after her byline appeared on a 2018 Washington Post stating that she became âa public figure representing domestic abuse.â Heard countersued after Deppâs attorney Adam Waldman called her allegations a âhoax.â
(Screenshot via Law&Crime Network)
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