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        <title><![CDATA[Humiliating photos and haymakers: All the dirt from the Johnny Depp libel trial today]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Willy Wonka has really let himself go.</p><p>A humiliating photo of <strong>Johnny Depp</strong> snoozing while ice cream <strong>melts all over his crotch</strong> was shown in a British court Monday — as the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” star continued to fend off allegations he beat ex-wife Amber Heard.</p><p>Heard “showed me [the photo] the next day and said, ‘Look at what you’ve become … it’s pathetic,’ ” the actor said of the 2014 snap during his fifth and final day of testimony in London’s High Court.</p><p>The sensational case revolves around Depp’s libel lawsuit against the British tabloid The Sun for calling him a “wife beater’’ in a 2018 article — with his and Heard’s volatile and perverse relationship taking center stage.</p><p>During Depp’s roughly total 23 hours on the stand, the 57-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean’’ actor repeatedly denied ever assaulting the 34-year-old actress while their seemingly doomed-from-the-start marriage played out over 15 months.</p><p>Heard — who is expected to take the stand later in the week — has accused Depp of repeatedly beating her in booze- and drug-fueled stupors, heaping on demeaning slurs in the process.</p><p>But Depp and his former personal assistant Stephen Deuters — who <strong>referred to Heard</strong> as a “sociopathic show pony’’ and “Machiavellian overloard’’ in texts shown in court — testified Monday that the only real aggressor in the marriage was the “Aquaman’’ actress.</p><p>On Monday, Depp’s camp produced the embarrassing photo, which Heard took before he agreed it was at a time for him to go to his private island in the Bahamas to detox from prescription meds.</p><p>“She asked me to hold her tub of ice cream. I have my right hand in my pocket, and I’m holding the ice cream in the other,’’ Depp recalled.</p><p>“I was obviously on the nod and very tired, falling asleep, and the ice cream then spilled all over my leg.’’</p><p>The “Edward Scissorhands’’ actor also claimed that his then-wife once <strong>socked him with a “haymaker” punch</strong> in April 2016, the month before she filed for divorce — and just hours after he’d found out he’d just lost a staggering $750 million.</p><p>“Since ‘Pirates [of the Caribbean]’ 2 and 3, I had — and this is ludicrous to have to state, it’s quite embarrassing — apparently I had made $650 million,” the star testified.</p><p>Depp said he then learned hours before his wife’s 30th birthday party April 21, 2016, that his former business manager had “stolen my money.”</p><p>“I had not only lost $650 million, but I was $100 million in the hole because they had not paid the government my taxes for 17 years,” Depp told the court.</p><p>He admitted that he may have smoked cannabis between leaving the “very unpleasant and ugly” business meeting and attending his wife’s party at their Los Angeles penthouse that night.</p><p>“It’s a calming agent for me,” Depp told the court of the drug.</p><p>Depp&#8217;s lawyer, David Sherborne, pointed out that a nurse at the party recalled Heard “appeared irritable and upset” and “angry with her husband because he’s late.”</p><p>That same night, someone pooped in the couple’s bed — and Depp has said he believes it may have been Amber as a supposed “prank.’’</p><p>The actor has been accused of hurling a magnum bottle of champagne at his wife over the course of the night, pushing her to the floor, yanking her by the hair and leaving a note saying, “Happy f&#8211;king birthday.”</p><p>But on Monday, he pointed to a recording she made in secret three months later that captured him telling her, “You f&#8211;king haymakered me, man’’ that night.</p><p>“You came around the bed to f&#8211;king start punching on me,” Depp said on the tape.</p><p>Asked to explain what a haymaker was, Depp said, “It’s just a type of wild swinging … kind of a roundhouse punch, as it were.”</p><p>Depp insisted that he couldn’t have hit Heard that night as she says — because he <strong>still had a cast</strong> on a severed finger due to lingering complications.</p><p>The actor had testified last week that the tip of his right middle finger was sliced off by a vodka bottle that Heard threw at him during a fight in Australia in March 2015, a month after they were married.</p><p>She has said he cut the tip of the digit off himself by slamming around a phone during a jealous alcohol- and drug-fueled rage — and that he then used the bloody finger to scrawl taunts aimed at her over her alleged affairs.</p><p>Depp said Monday that he got such a “painful” MRSA infection from the wound, he wouldn’t have been able to attack Heard in April 2016 the way she said.</p><p>“I flew back from Australia to LA to have surgery on the finger, and at that time, they had put a pin in it, in the broken bone, the fractured bone, but to no avail,” he told the court.</p><p>He “ended up getting MRSA, it’s quite a painful disease,” Depp said.</p><p>The actor described his cast as having a “little dinosaur” on it to be “more fun.’’</p><p>Sherborne, asked him, “With that cast on, would you have been able to grab her hair with one hand and punch her repeatedly with the other?”</p><p>Depp replied, “No sir.”</p><p>As he left the witness box Monday, Depp smiled and quipped to a court worker, “I’m gonna miss you.’’</p><p>Meanwhile, a witness that followed claimed she did once see Heard with <strong>bruises on her neck</strong> — but it was after tech tycoon Elon Musk apparently spent the night at the actress’s pad, and not when Depp was there.</p><p>Heard has said Depp “wound up his arm like a baseball pitcher’’ and threw her iPhone at her May 21, 2016, striking her in the right eye.</p><p>But Trinity Esparza, a concierge at the posh LA building where the former couple lived, testified that she never saw Heard with any injuries in the days after the alleged assault.</p><p>Two days after, “I looked her right in the face as we said hello, and I saw no visible injuries whatsoever to Ms. Heard’s face,’’ Esparza said.</p><p>She said it wasn’t until May 27, 2016, that she “noticed for the first time’’ the actress had a red mark under her right eye.</p><p>Esparza also said in a witness statement that she saw “a number of marks on Ms. Heard’s body,’’ including bruises on her neck and under her left eye as well as a bandage on her arm, in June or July 2016 — shortly after the worker spotted Musk leaving the building looking “like he had just woken up with messy hair.’’</p><p>The Tesla founder — who has been accused by Depp’s camp of having an affair with Heard while she was still with the actor — did not return requests for comment from The Post on Monday. He has previously denied the extra-marital-affair claim.</p><p>The Sun’s lawyer, Sasha Wass, challenged Esparza at one point, “You wanted to suggest that Mr Musk had injured her, didn’t you?”</p><p>Esparza responded, “I did not suggest that, I don’t know.”</p><p>Deuters, meanwhile, backed up his boss that Heard “was the <strong>abuser in the relationship</strong>.”</p><p>As he took the stand, he at first denied ever hearing Depp use terms such as “slut,” “whore” or “c&#8211;t” — before he was confronted by a text message from the actor doing just that.</p><p>“She’s a c&#8211;t!!!” Depp texted his assistant, complaining about Heard’s accusations that he was “wasted on something else every night,” the court heard.</p><p>Deuters insisted that he “didn’t have any recollection” of the crude text from Depp and added that he would “certainly not” use such language himself — only to be shown an even more strongly-worded message he wrote about Heard.</p><p>“Sociopathic show pony. Machiavellian overlord. Talentless c&#8211;t,” Deuters wrote in one message about Heard in 2016 after she and Depp split, the court was told.</p><p>Deuters told the court of his foul-worded messages, “I certainly regret that.’’</p><p>Depp’s texts contained “extravagances and exaggerations,” the former employee said, with the court hearing one in which Depp said he had “hookers and animals” in his hotel room.</p><p>In addition to Heard, Depp’s other actress exes Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis are both expected to testify during the three-week trial.</p><p><em>With Wires</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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