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        <title><![CDATA[Amber Heard accused of ‘stealing’ ex-assistant’s ‘sexual violence’ story]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amber Heard stole her former assistant&#8217;s harrowing story of surviving a rape at knife-point &#8212; then &#8220;twisted&#8221; it to use against warring husband Johnny Depp, the ex-staffer alleged in a UK court Wednesday.</p><p>Kate James <strong>told Depp’s libel case in London’s High Court</strong> that her former boss had &#8220;summoned&#8221; her in 2013 so that she could pump her for information on surviving a six-hour rape while traveling in Brazil.</p><p>&#8220;Ms. Heard referred to a conversation we had about me being violently raped at machete point in Brazil and she used it as her own story,&#8221; James told the court Wednesday.</p><p>“She referred directly to a violent rape that occurred to me 26 years ago and she twisted it into her own story and she used it for her own use.”</p><p>In a witness <strong>statement obtained by the Daily Mail</strong>, James detailed how she only &#8220;narrowly escaped&#8221; with her life during the attack when she was 26.</p><p>&#8220;This attack went on for 5-6 hours and I narrowly escaped with my life. This tortuous experience of such extreme sexual violence has haunted me ever since,&#8221; she wrote in the filing, according to the Mail.</p><p>Without detailing what parts of Heard&#8217;s claims she believes were ripped off from her life story, James said she only made the connection in June when she was sent court documents related to the case.</p><p>&#8220;As I perused the documents, much to my utter shock and dismay, I discovered that Ms. Heard had in fact stolen my sexual violence conversation with her and twisted it into her own story to benefit herself,&#8221; she wrote in the statement.</p><p>&#8220;This of course caused me extreme distress and outrage that she would dare to attempt to use the mostly harrowing experience of my life as her own narrative,&#8221; she wrote.</p><p>James said her horrific ordeal made her especially eager to give testimony in the libel case, in which Depp is defending himself against claims that he repeatedly beat his ex-wife.</p><p>&#8220;I’m a sexual violence survivor and that’s very, very serious to take that stance if you are not one and I am one,&#8221; she told the court.</p><p>&#8220;That’s the reason I’m here, because I take offense,&#8221; she said.</p><p>James, giving evidence via videolink from LA, said she worked for Heard for three years until she was fired in 2015.</p><p>“She was probably the least-known person I have ever worked with in Hollywood, to be honest,&#8221; she told the court, saying she now works for &#8220;one of the kindest men in Hollywood,&#8221; without identifying him.</p><p>She told the court how the “Justice League” actress would drink “vast quantities of wine” and then send “incoherent and abusive texts between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on a daily basis.”</p><p>James was the final witness on the seventh day of Depp’s libel case against The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article that said he was a “wife-beater.”</p><p>He vehemently denies ever hitting Heard, and instead says his “sociopathic” ex-wife was the violent one in their marriage.</p><p><em>With Post wires</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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