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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
2 years
Amber Heard's lawyer grills Johnny Depp about whether he took drugs with Marilyn Manson. “I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much.” Depp testifies.
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Something that's definitely good for abused children is turning phrases like "groomer" and "pedophile" into meaningless culture war slurs
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Asked if Depp drank whiskey in the mornings while shooting "The Lone Ranger," he answered, "Isn’t happy hour anytime?"
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Lol I had no idea Dan Crenshaw's district was this gerrymandered
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Amber Heard lawyer shows photo of marijuana in Johnny Depp's recording studio. "This is a photo of 4 pretty huge bags of marijuana, yes?" he asks. "Yes sir, that’s a lot of marijuana," Depp testifies.
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I've covered both of E. Jean Carroll's trials against Donald Trump. This one is going even more disastrously bad for him than the last one. I am beginning to think the damages will be absolutely massive. Possibly enough to bankrupt him. 🧵
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$20 a month is such a funny price point. Only a billionaire with no concept of money could think that makes any sense.
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Johnny Depp says it's unlikely he kept cocaine in this metal box with "Property of JD" on it, depicted next to lines of cocaine. "When you put it in a box like that, chances are very good you’ll leave a trail of a long line of cocaine behind you walking down the street,"
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"hit me in the head with your golden globe" should be the new "run me over with a truck"
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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I don't remember Ben Shapiro trying to cancel Rudy Giuliani for wearing a dress.
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Amber Heard lawyer: "You've trashed hotel rooms simply because you had a bad couple of days and an unpleasant time, right?" Johnny Depp: "I have assaulted a couch or two, yes sir."
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losing my mind at these photos of Obama and George W. Bush that Cuomo included as exhibits in his defense
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INBOX: Emily Ratajkowski endorses Bernie Sanders for president.
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At the R. Kelly trial jury selection. One prospective juror said he thought this whole thing was about R. Crumb, the cartoonist.
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SCOOP: Trump-ally media outlet OAN quietly deleted articles about Dominion Voting Systems despite publicly doubling down on election conspiracy theories
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interesting graphic from The Atlantic
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The Pulitzer Board gives a shoutout to student journalists.
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A Statement From the Pulitzer Prize Board:
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SCOOP: Dominion sent document preservation letters warning of "imminent" defamation litigation to individual right-wing media figures, including Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and Maria Bartiromo.
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I went to synagogue this morning. There was an NYPD officer who stood by the entrance, in the cold. I thought, "do we still need to be doing this?" Sickened that we do.
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I have no idea why people say spiderman 3 is a bad movie. This is incredible cinema.
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For the past week, Johnny Depp's friends, employees, and family have taken the stand to say that Depp didn't abuse substances, and that he had it all under control.
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@MarisaKabas I always ask the pharmacist "do you have a coupon?" For some reason *they* apparently have an optional button to run coupon codes or something and get discounts on my prescription. But I have to ask!
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3 years
Prosecutors rolling in evidence to the Brooklyn federal court ahead of the R. Kelly trial this morning
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this is who you're arguing with on twitter
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Depp hired a personal doctor to help with addiction, but he said it was only for an opioid addiction developed after a medication he took to deal with a leg injury.
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I have a tough time imagining a kid being sexually abused by a family member would believe that a Disney show with a trans actor or whatever is where the federal government should be focused on
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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Claudia Conway on why her mom still works for Trump: "It's called internalized misogyny. That is facts."
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Al Gore is a lovely wife guy, according to Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in a newly unsealed deposition.
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Depp, in direct examination, has talked about having "a glass or two" of wine — pretty much on par with the amount Heard drank. He also said Heard sought drugs.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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In cross-examination, Heard's lawyer is trying to paint quite a different picture of Depp's drug/alcohol use.
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Elon is correct. The stake is worth much less now.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
5 years
It's honestly pretty embarrassing? It's kind of like winning a game everyone knows was rigged.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
2 years
Maybe it's because the Ghislaine Maxwell trial actually starts next week
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seems very odd that the rittenhouse trial occupies public airwaves 24/7 while the ghislaine maxwell trial, happening at the same time, receives little coverage.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
4 years
Sullivan demands to hear from a senior postal service official later in court today. When DOJ lawyers, say they'll have to check on their availability, he explodes. "You will have to tell him when he's available. It's up to the court when he's available."
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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I feel like this didn't get enough attention last week: The prostitution charges against Robert Kraft were dropped, but the sex workers were still charged and forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
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omg this carrot looks like a horse 253K retweets 504K likes haha thanks guys. so i'm in crushing medical debt because of an ear infection and now i owe 30,000 to the hospital. every bit helps! here's my gofundme. 3 retweets 12 likes
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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Getting "yanny/laurel" vibes from Johnny Depp denying he said "the day I chopped my finger off" in an audio recording.
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Lauren Boebert's son called 911 in tears to report his father was "throwing" him around the house and "called me a psycho." "There are weapons in the house yeah, but I don't think he'd use them on me," he told the officer. Then, his mom stepped in.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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Following the USPS court case right now. Judge Emmet Sullivan is furious the postal service didn't comply with his order.
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I can fix him
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Prosecutors dropped their case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards two weeks ago, in the middle of Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. The decision wasn't made public until today.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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The South Korean director behind worldwide hit 'Parasite' said he wouldn't work for Marvel because he thinks superheroes are stupid
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It's true. Harry Styles is making everyone wear a dress. Men — expect yours in the mail by Wednesday.
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It's rare to see a criminal trial with no family members showing up to support the defendant. Even Ghislaine Maxwell had two sisters and a brother attend nearly every day of her trial.
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You are in her DMs I am knocking on her door as she's on the phone with Glenn Greenwald we are not the same
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Can we talk about how Taylor Swift has the worst filmography of all time?
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@ClareCoffey the master will change his tune once he sees the homunculus i've created to run the water mill
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Ram Charan could do An American in Paris but Gene Kelly couldn't do Naacho Naacho
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NEW: I spoke to Jennifer Weisselberg, a cooperating witness in the Manhattan DA and NYAG investigations into Trump. She says she's given them 7 boxes of documents and spoken to Mark Pomerantz several times.
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RRR is just as good as everyone says. I've never seen another movie where someone throws a tiger at someone else.
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In a sickening new lawsuit, an accuser says Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly raped her, sex-trafficked her, and threatened to feed her to alligators if she talked to authorities.
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@autogynefiles when u full but u still suckin 💬108 ♻️16k ❤️174k
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For 15 years, Mendy Levy lived in the extremist Jewish cult Lev Tahor, which fled from Canada to Guatemala in the wake of a child abuse investigation. He plotted his escape and now lives his life as a normal Jewish teenager. This is his story:
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Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn): Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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love it when i'm in the grocery store and taylor swift is playing and i'm crying in the grocery store
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Here's the 58-page handbook for running Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach home. It includes instructions like to "see nothing, hear nothing" when "guests" are at the house, and "Gun placed in beside table drawer" when Epstein is around.
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@mosseri What if I don't care if you have growth?
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People magazine made a huge gamble with this cover on the issue I got today. And, well... ☹️
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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Please, please everyone now watch Bong's other movies. Mother, Memories of Murder, and The Host are just waiting for you.
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
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The best compliment you can give to a journalist is "how did you get this number?"
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Serious question, don't yell at me: why would anyone read a book at a bar instead of at home?
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Weisselberg told me the Manhattan DA's office sent a forensic accountant with experience analyzing mob finances to look at the Trump Organization documents in her possession.
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Carroll’s lawyers are clearly gunning for massive, massive punitive damages. Enough to stop Trump from lying about Carroll. Something a whole other trial couldn’t do.
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I've rarely seen editing work so hard in my life
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Do *not* get in a fight with Zuck
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David Portnoy's defamation lawsuit against Insider Inc has been DISMISSED by a federal judge.
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Accidentally boiled too much water. Gonna freeze some so I have it for later.
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dude the same guy literally ran an account that posted the flights of the washington post owner's jet
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If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!
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Wow. Doug Band — Bill Clinton's former right-hand man — says Clinton visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island, which Clinton has repeatedly denied.
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NEW: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard DID NOT reach a settlement before today's deadline. The jury verdict was entered. Heard now owes Depp millions of dollars. A spokesperson indicated she plans to appeal.
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With the Giuliani trial, the jury got a similar message. They ultimately awarded Freeman and Moss $148 million — way more than they asked for. Much of it in punitive damages.
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But my mind keeps going back to another recent, not dissimilar damages-only defamation trial: The trial Rudy Giuliani lost last month in Washington DC, for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
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It is, of course, a fool’s errand to try to predict a jury verdict. Especially in a damages-only case. A lawyer at one defamation trial once described the jury to me as the “random outcome generator.”
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You can map out the situation to Trump’s ongoing case with E. Jean Carroll. Here, too, he’s already been found liable — it’s damages only. But his persistent lies are even worse! He’s attacking Carroll way more harshly and way more aggressively.
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Donald Trump and his 2 largest adult sons are scheduled to be deposed for a lawsuit accusing them of pushing a scam multi-level marketing scheme on "The Celebrity Apprentice." Deposition for Ivanka Trump hasn't been scheduled yet.
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It sounds like Virginia Giuffre vomited after recounting having sex with Alan Dershowitz in a deposition (Dershowitz says Giuffre invented the allegations)
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Habba maintains a scornful, irked tone in her opening statement and cross-examination questions. Trump crosses his arms and mumbles snide comments. They are openly contemptuous of the judge.
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You can read Virginia Giuffre's 2016 deposition in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, just unsealed, right here:
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In that case, Giuliani insisted that Freeman and Moss manipulated election results. He repeated the lie to journalists at the end of the trial day! Nothing would stop him.
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But the real issue here is punitive damages. And they could be sky-high.
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While tweeting in court, Cory Mills falsely claims that the courtroom isn't showing evidence from Trump's defense attorneys. In reality, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche hasn't even attempted to enter any exhibits into evidence yet.
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The New York court was putting up on the screen for all in the courtroom to see when the prosecution was presenting evidence. Now, the defense is in cross examination and not a single piece of evidence is being displayed in the same equal manner. @VivekGRamaswamy @ByronDonalds
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Who decided to call it Halacha and not Jude Law
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I love John Carpenter
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They are acting like they are too good to be in court. Outside of court, they openly call the trial an illegitimate witch hunt.
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An American who volunteered to fight in Ukraine
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Organization used perks like apartments and tuition paymnts in lieu of salary raises in order to control its key employees, a cooperating witness in investigations told me. "If you want to leave, where are you going to live?"
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Trump and her lead attorney in the 2nd Carroll trial, Alina Habba, have been treating the proceedings with open contempt.
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