An artist friend of Johnny Depp has dismissed images of Amber Heard with injuries as ‘phoney baloney’ at the High Court, and accused the actress of filing a ‘fraudulent’ domestic violence claim to ‘extort and blackmail’ the actor.
Isaac Baruch, who the court heard lived rent-free in one of Depp’s Los Angeles apartments, was the first witness to give evidence on Friday – day nine of the Hollywood star’s libel action against the publishers of The Sun and the paper’s executive editor Dan Wootton over a 2018 article labelling him a ‘wife beater’.
Mr Baruch described Depp as a ‘noble mensch’ and ‘a true honest guy’. Speaking about ‘phoney baloney pictures in People magazine’ of Heard with injuries, he said they did not compare with what he had ever seen.
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