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Johnny Depp, the High Court and the reality of fame – The Australian Financial Review
The libel trial brought by the Pirates of the Caribbean star says as much about the dazzle of celebrity as the quest for truth.
It was a mixture of #MeToo, domestic violence, celebrity gossip, free speech, and drug education advisory. It ploughed on, with witnesses beamed in from the US and Australia, even as almost everything else in central London remained shut by the pandemic.
Mr Justice Nicols judgment is not expected until the autumn, but the public verdict is already in: the trial was a tawdry spectacle.
Highly paid barristers debated who had defecated in Depps bed. They quizzed Heards sister on how she and Depp …
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