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.
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.
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. 🧵
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,"
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."
SCOOP: Trump-ally media outlet OAN quietly deleted articles about Dominion Voting Systems despite publicly doubling down on election conspiracy theories
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.
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.
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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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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
It sounds like Virginia Giuffre vomited after recounting having sex with Alan Dershowitz in a deposition (Dershowitz says Giuffre invented the allegations)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?"