Supermodel, Kate Moss will reportedly be called to the stand this week in “Pirates of The Caribbean” star, Johnny Depp’s bombshell defamation trial against estranged wife, actress, Amber Heard according to The Post. Sources shared that the 48-year-old supermodel will on Wednesday, testify via video link in the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom.
Amber Heard Mentions Johnny’s Ex, Kate Moss During Her Testimony
Amber Heard mentioned Kate Moss during her own testimony at the court room and legal experts had said that the Aquaman actress mentioning the model could give her Johnny Depp’s team the chance to debunk a rumor that he pushed her down a flight of stairs when they were a couple in the 1990s.
Johnny Depp’s Ex, Kate Moss Will Testify During Depp VS Heard Trial
“That’s one mistake that [Heard] made, was bringing up Kate Moss, which potentially opened the door to [Depp’s team] bringing [Moss] on as an impeachment witness” — and Moss “saying ‘This never happened,’” California entertainment lawyer Mitra Ahouraian stated.
Someone close to the Pirates star shared with The Post that at the time that “Amber mentioned an ex of Johnny’s that clearly she felt was not supportive of him, which couldn’t be further from the truth.” Johnny Depp’s lawyers will invite Kate Moss as a witness. Kate and Johnny dated between between 1994 and 1997, and the model has always been supportive of her actor ex-boyfriend.
It was during her May 5 testimony that Heard brought Kate, telling the courtroom about a March 2015 fight in which she punched her estranged husband in the face because she thought he was going to shove her sister. Whitney down a staircase. She said that she “instantly” thought about “Kate Moss and the stairs” — prompting Depp lawyer Ben Chew to turn and fist-pump.
According to experts, Kate Moss was originally not supposed to testify as the staircase incident with her was not related to Amber and Johnny’s case. However, her mention of the model paved way for her estranged husband’s team to call Kate to testify.
Kate’s testimony will come on the third to last day of the six-week trial. Jonny is suing Amber for $50 million over a Washington Post published in 2018, where she referred to herself a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” While she didn’t mention his name in the essay, he claims that he was defamed and his career was ruined, causing him to lose a lot of money.
Amber then countersued him for $100 million, saying he also defamed her in 2020 when he and his lawyers told the press that she fabricated abuse allegations. In 2020, during Johnny’s UK trial against Britain’s The Sun, Amber said that he had once shoved his ex, Kate Moss down a flight of stairs. When she was describing the same flight that involved her sister, she said that, “I remembered information I had heard [that] he pushed a former girlfriend — I believe it was Kate Moss — down the stairs.
I had heard this rumor from two people and it was fresh in my mind.” Johnny sued The Sun over an article that named him a “wife beater,” but he lost the case after the court substantiated the majority of his estranged wife’s abuse allegations.
