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Kate Moss’ Sister Lottie Shows Off Face Tattoo She Got on Vacation in Bali: ‘It Was Impulsive’
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Lottie Moss is adding to her ink!
The model and Kate Moss’ half-sister, who recently garnered some attention on social media in response to “nepotism” comments, showed off a new tattoo on Instagram — sitting right on her left cheek.
The tat reads “Lover,” and Moss opened up about it in a recent interview with Glamour UK.
RELATED: Kate Moss’ Sister Lottie Hits Back at Nepotism Claims: ‘Life Isn’t Fair’
“Since rehab, I’ve been on a journey of self-discovery. I’ve spent a lot of time in Bali, surrounded by nature, reading alone or spending time with like-minded people – and learning to love myself again while finally being free from my former life,” she said.
Lottie — who has previously been candid about struggles with anxiety and using substances to self-medicate — shared a TikTok about her time in rehab in February. In its caption, she wrote, “I think I took euphoria too literally u guys 😑,” but did not elaborate.
“That’s why I decided to get my face tattoo; the word ‘lover’ under my eye,” Moss continued to Glamour UK. “Yes, it was impulsive, but after years of being so controlled, it was my way of expressing that I am free. I’m no longer controlled.”
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Earlier in the month, Lottie uploaded a TikTok where she shared her journey toward getting the tat, reflecting on it after and admitting that it “could’ve gone without doing.”
“But I actually don’t mind it. It’s here to stay now,” she said. “We’re going to learn to love it. The world’s going to learn to love it. My mom’s going to learn to love it, hopefully, yeah. Don’t drink alcohol, kids.”
RELATED: Model Lottie Moss Reveals She Has Checked Into Rehab, Saying ‘I Took ‘Euphoria’ Too Literally’
Moss defended her success in the modeling industry in a series of tweets on Wednesday, as she responded to claims that she’s famous because of her sibling. The tweets followed a series of articles published by Vulture and New York magazine about “nepo babies,” figures in the entertainment industry with famous parents or grandparents.
“I’m so sick of people blaming nepotism for why they aren’t rich and famous or successful,” she wrote, writing that she gets that “it’s not fair that people who come from famous families are getting a leg up because of that.”
“But guess what?” she continued. “Life isn’t fair — if you put your mind to something you can accomplish anything! So instead of being negative about other peoples success go and try and create your own!”
The model — who has since seemingly deleted her Twitter account — added that while she is “privileged being related to a huge model,” she’s still grateful for modeling opportunities. She added that it “makes NO sense” to be “s—ting on others” for that reason.
On Friday, Moss seemingly posted a response on her Instagram Story to those critiquing her over her comments. “The fact that ppl are taking time out of their day to spam my s— with hate,” she wrote. “And u say I have no career?”
Madcap Moss qualifies for men’s Money in the Bank ladder match
WWE came into this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown needing to find a seventh and final participant in the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match scheduled for tomorrow night (Sat., July 2, 2022) at the Money in the Bank Premium Live Event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The Miz, Ezekiel, Happy Corbin, and Madcap Moss all campaigned to be included, but were then thrown into a battle royal with the six wrestlers who had already qualified — Drew McIntyre, Sheamus, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Riddle, and Omos.
Corbin ended up winning the battle royal.
There was no word on what that meant for anything, at least not initially.
Then, hilariously enough, despite Corbin winning the battle royal with all the other already announced participants in the match, they booked a Fatal 4-Way for later in the evening. The Miz, Ezekiel, and Madcap Moss, who all got utterly annihilated by Omos in the battle royal, would have another chance.
Incredible!
The match, given the main event spot, featured Corbin setting himself up to win by taking out The Miz and hitting End of Days on Ezekiel but Madcap Moss rushing in at the last minute to throw him out and steal the victory.
The field is now set.
See you tomorrow night!
Take a bow: Kate Moss outfit sends subversive message at Depp libel trial | Johnny Depp
This week’s most anticipated fashion moment was not Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding finally appearing in Vogue, nor the latest red carpet “lewk” at the Cannes film festival. No, fashion observers were waiting for something that would be much more nuanced, more sophisticated – what on earth Kate Moss would wear to testify at her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp’s libel trial this week?
For her three minutes on the witness stand via video link to clear up that “did she fall/was she pushed?” stairs question (she fell), Moss weaponised a white spotted pussybow blouse.
To the untrained eye, such a choice might seem like perfectly anodyne courtroom clothing. Not to Mossy and the fashion literate, though. There’s always been something subtly subversive about the pussybow.
“Historically, it’s associated with women who are starting to invade male spaces – the golf course, the workplace – and challenge traditional dress codes,” says Dr Kate Strasdin of Falmouth University.
It was popularised in the 1960s by Coco Chanel, whose silk blouses offset more mannish fabrics such as tweed. But it was in 1966, when Yves Saint Laurent appropriated the tuxedo trouser suit as womenswear to create Le Smoking, softening it with a silk pussybow blouse, that it was radicalised and became a feminist fashion statement.
“It was the first time it was paired with trousers,” says Strasdin. “There was a direct femininity but it was hypermasculinised.”
The 1960s pussybow gave women working in a man’s world a soft-power version of a suit and tie (your reference: those Mad Men badasses Peggy Olson and Joan Holloway). It was an iron fist in a velvet glove.
It was also a key element in the sartorial arsenal of Margaret Thatcher, who reportedly called it “softening and pretty”.
And as if to remind the world of its rebellious roots, Balenciaga opened its Resort 2023 show at the New York Stock Exchange last Sunday with a model wearing a voluminous black satin pussybow blouse with a latex gimp mask.
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Kate’s take was rather more polite. Wearing it with a black satin-lapelled jacket, the look was very much Le Smoking: “She’s almost recreated that iconic 1966 [Helmut Newton] image,” says Strasdin.
So what might Kate have been saying? What was she subverting?
“It evokes defiance,” says the fashion historian Dr Bethan Bide. “The bow is almost coming undone. It says she’s trying less hard, it feels more rebellious. It’s like she’s saying, ‘I’m not going to perform for you here.’ It’s a refusal to deliver for the media circus.
“Kate’s brilliant at skirting that line. At first glance, her look is eminently respectable, but it has that real vibe that provides that pushback.”
Kate Moss Testifies That Johnny Depp Did Not Push Her Down Stairs
Earlier in the trial, Ellen Barkin, with whom Mr. Depp was also romantically involved in the 1990s, called him a “controlling” and “jealous man,” recounting an incident in a Las Vegas in which, she said, Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across a hotel room. She said there had been a fight going on between Mr. Depp and other people in the room, but she could not remember the cause of it.
The Virginia case was sparked by a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, in which Ms. Heard said her career suffered after she became a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article did not mention Mr. Depp by name, but he has asserted that its allusions to their relationship “devastated” his acting career.
The seven-person jury is also considering Ms. Heard’s countersuit, which says Mr. Depp defamed her when the lawyer representing him at the time made statements to the British tabloid The Daily Mail saying that her abuse accusations were a hoax.
Ms. Heard has testified that Mr. Depp’s rages were fueled by his drug and alcohol use and triggered by his suspicions that she was having affairs, which she has repeatedly denied. Mr. Depp, she said, would punch, slap and kick her, and had torn out clumps of her hair and sexually assaulted her with a bottle.
Over four days of testimony earlier in the trial, Mr. Depp described Ms. Heard as someone with a “need for conflict” and a “need for violence.” He said she had lashed out at him physically over a number of issues, including a potential postnuptial agreement, her desire for Mr. Depp to abstain from drugs and alcohol, and his tardiness to her 30th birthday dinner.
On Wednesday, one of the texts that Mr. Depp was confronted with included his saying of Ms. Heard in 2016, “I have no mercy, no fear and not an ounce of emotion, or what I once thought was love for this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market.”
Mr. Depp said the text portrayed his anger at the false accusations that turned him into “scum” in the eyes of many.
Amber Heard team hits back after Kate Moss denies Johnny Depp pushed her down stairs
A source close to Amber Heard has offered a strong response to Kate Moss denying a claim that Johnny Depp pushed her down the stairs during their relationship in the 1990s.
Ms Moss testified in the defamation trial opposing Mr Depp and Ms Heard for only a few minutes on Wednesday via video link. She said that she fell down a set of stairs while on holiday with Mr Depp in Jamaica and that he helped her up and cared for her at the time.
“We were leaving the room, Johnny left before I did, and there had been a rain storm,” she said. “As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back.
“I screamed, because I didn’t know what had happened to me and I was in pain. He came running back to help me and carried me back to my room, and got me medical attention.”
Asked about the relationship as a whole, which lasted from 1994 until 1998, Ms Moss said: “He never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs.”
The defence declined to cross-examine Ms Moss.
After her testimony concluded, a source close to Ms Heard told The Independent: “So Johnny Depp didn’t abuse Kate Moss. That makes him one for two in the abuse column.
“But, to date, he’s zero for one in the courtroom on the central issue in this case back when he lost the same exact case in England. And when the jury deliberates over the singular issue in this case – whether Amber Heard can exercise her right of Freedom of Speech – he’ll be zero for two, no matter how much his lawyers try to distract and divert the jury’s attention.”
Ms Moss’ name came up in the courtroom earlier this month during Ms Heard’s testimony, when she described a time that Mr Depp allegedly “[swung] at” her sister while she had her back to a staircase.
Ms Heard said this reminded her of another incident during which she alleges Mr Depp pushed Ms Moss down stairs while they were dating in the 1990s.
“I just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and stairs,” Ms Heard said.
The Aquaman actor had previously made the claim during Mr Depp’s 2020 trial against The Sun in the UK, according to The Associated Press: “He was about to push her down the stairs and the moment before that happened, I remembered information I had heard that he pushed a former girlfriend – I believe it was Kate Moss – down the stairs.”
Ms Moss and Mr Depp dated for about four years beginning in 1994. Their relationship was often described by the press as tumultuous, particularly after an incident in 1994 when Mr Depp was arrested for criminal mischief after allegedly trashing a hotel room he shared with Ms Moss, People reported.
Until her testimony on Wednesday, Ms Moss had never publicly responded to Ms Heard’s claim that Mr Depp pushed her down the stairs – which he denies.
After Ms Heard mentioned Ms Moss in her testimony as part of the US case, Mr Depp’s attorney Ben Chew was seen giving an apparent fist pump, prompting speculation that the mention of Ms Moss could benefit Mr Depp’s legal team in some way.
Broderick Dunn, an attorney based in Virginia, told Fox5 that “since Heard brought up Depp’s alleged prior bad acts, she may have opened the door to her own”, according to the website.
That speculation came to fruition on 17 May during cross-examination of Ms Heard, where she was asked about a 2009 arrest for domestic violence involving her then-partner Tasya van Ree.
The alleged incident was reported in 2016 by TMZ, which wrote that Ms Heard “allegedly grabbed and struck [Ms van Ree] in the arm, which upset [Ms van Ree] and triggered the arrest”.
The prosecution declined to file charges when Ms Heard appeared in court the following day, People reported in 2016.
Ms van Ree in 2016 shared a statement with Variety which read: “In 2009, Amber was wrongfully accused for an incident that was misinterpreted and over-sensationalised by two individuals in a power position.”
When questioned in court, Ms Heard denied committing domestic violence against Ms van Ree or assaulting her. She alleged the story was “planted” after she obtained a temporary restraining order against Mr Depp in 2016.
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Depp vs Heard: some of the key points early in the trial
If you’re only just coming to the Depp-Heard case now, here is a selection of some of the key points from earlier in the trial that will help get you up to speed:
— Depp testified that he never hit Heard or any other woman. He said she was the one who became abusive and “bullied” him with “demeaning name calling.” “It seemed like pure hatred for me,” Depp said. “If I stayed to argue, eventually, I was sure it was going to escalate into violence, and oftentimes it did.”
— During an argument in Australia in early 2015, Depp said Heard threw a vodka bottle that severed the top of his right middle finger. The actor said he went into shock and wrote messages to Heard on the wall using blood from the finger. Heard offered a different account, sobbing as she told the jury that Depp sexually assaulted her that night by inserting a liquor bottle in her vagina. “I was scared,” she said. “I had just married him.”
— A few months later, Heard said, Depp broke her nose and ripped out chunks of her hair during another violent encounter.
— Heard’s attorneys introduced photos that they said showed injuries after various arguments, including scars on her arm that were visible as she posed on a red carpet, and redness and swelling around an eye that she said was struck by a phone thrown by Depp. Attorneys for Depp showed images from public appearances that they said were taken around the time of their fights and appeared to show no injuries.
— Depp testified that feces were found in the couple’s bed in 2016. One of his security guards said Heard told him it was “a horrible practical joke gone wrong.” Heard denied any involvement and suggested one of the couple’s dogs was responsible.
— Heard said Depp first became physically abusive when he slapped her after she laughed at a tattoo that said “Wino Forever.” The tattoo previously said “Winona Forever,” referring to Depp’s former girlfriend, Winona Ryder.
— Jurors heard an audio clip of Depp threatening to cut himself with a knife during one of their last in-person encounters. “That’s psychologically, emotionally where I was,” Depp said. “At the end, I was broken … I thought the only answer is here, take my blood, that’s all I’ve got left.”
— Heard’s lawyers introduced text messages in which Depp called Heard a “filthy whore” and said he wanted her dead. Writing to actor Paul Bettany in 2013, Depp said: “Let’s drown her before we burn her” and “I will fuck her burnt corpse afterward to make sure she is dead.”
Johnny Depp trial: Kate Moss testifies he never pushed her down any stairs
Moss, who testified for less than three minutes, said she had a romantic relationship with Depp from 1994 to 1998. Depp’s team called her as a rebuttal witness in response to testimony from Heard, who said on the stand that she thought about a rumor Depp had pushed Moss when she and her sister Whitney Heard Henriquez were in an altercation with Depp near a set of stairs.
“He swung at Whitney, and I’d heard a rumor, a vague rumor, about that,” Heard testified on May 17.
On Wednesday, Moss testified under oath that the rumor was untrue — that the then-couple went to Jamaica during their relationship and that at one point on the trip, there was a rainstorm and Moss fell down a set of stairs and injured her back.
“We were leaving the room and Johnny left the room before I did and there had been a rainstorm and as I left the room I slipped down the stairs and I hurt my back,” Moss said. “I screamed because I didn’t know what happened to me and I was in pain and he came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention.”
Depp’s attorney asked Moss if Depp had ever pushed her down the stairs during the course of their relationship.
“No. He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs,” Moss testified.
Moss was not cross examined by Heard’s legal team.
Depp has sued Heard for $50 million over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote that the actor claims defamed him and has resulted in him allegedly losing work. Heard has countersued Depp for $100 million, claiming statements his attorney made in which he called her allegations of abuse by Depp a “hoax” defamed her and cost her work.
Johnny Depp takes the stand for a second time
Later Wednesday, Depp took the stand to testify for a second time.
The actor had previously testified in the trial over the course of four days in April. The trial has been underway for six weeks with one week-long break in the middle. Closing arguments are expected by the end of the week.
Inside Kate Moss and Johnny Depp’s wild, debauched romance
Kate Moss has never had a problem talking about Johnny Depp.
In the mid-1990s, the supermodel was asked by a British morning TV host about how romantic her then-boyfriend was — and revealed that Depp liked to surprise her with parties and presents.
“Oh go on, what sort of presents?” asked “The Big Breakfast” host Gaby Roslin.
“He gave me a diamond necklace which he had hidden down the crack of his arse!” Moss chirped.
Years later, she again reminisced about the jewelry. “He said, ‘Come on, we’re going to the Russian Tea Room for dinner’ … as we were going out the door, he said, ‘Kate, I’ve got something on my arse, you have to look, I don’t know what it is, will you have a look for me,’” she told Nick Knight’s Fashion Film. “I’d only known him like three months! I put my hand down the back of his trousers and pulled out this f–king Tiffany necklace. It was nice not to find a boil. That necklace is f–king class…”
It’s probably not a story Moss will repeat on Wednesday, when she appears via video to testify on Depp’s behalf in his defamation court case about his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Instead, Moss, 48, is expected to explain how Depp once swept her up and carried her after she slipped down stairs, according to sources.
Moss was drawn into the legal drama when Heard, 36, told the jury about a March 2015 fight during which she punched Depp, 58, in the face out of fear he was going to shove her sister, Whitney Henriquez, down a staircase.
The “Aquaman” actress said Henriquez was near a staircase “in the line of fire … trying to get Johnny to stop,” which reminded her of a rumored incident between Moss and Depp.
“[Whitney’s] back was to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her,” Heard testified. “I don’t hesitate, I don’t wait — I just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and stairs.”
By mentioning the alleged misconduct, Heard inadvertently allowed Depp’s lawyers to call the model as a witness.
A source familiar with the case told The Post that Moss will recount an incident that sounds more romantic than traumatic, when she “was walking down some stairs in Jamaica. She was wearing flip-flops and she slipped on the last two stairs. Johnny caught her and tended to her.”
Depp and Moss were the iconic ’90s couple. Decadent and volatile, their passionate romance — which spanned 1994 to 1997 — took them from London to Hollywood to Cannes, sometimes leaving chaos in their wake.
The actor, who found fame on TV series “21 Jump Street,” was 31, and Moss was 20 when they met. “I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together,” the model has said.
Fashion writer and former Vanity Fair columnist George Wayne introduced them in 1994 “at Cafe Tabac in the East Village,” he posted on Instagram. “She strolled in with Naomi at what was our favorite hangout back then … I took her hand and immediately took her to Johnny’s table in the middle of the restaurant. ‘Johnny, this is Kate — Kate, meet Johnny.’ I didn’t expect when I did that they would go on to trash five-star hotel rooms across the globe.”
Depp has claimed that he and Moss had sex in every single one of the 63 rooms of the legendary Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, and he reportedly filled a tub with champagne at London’s Portobello Hotel for them to bathe in.
But their passionate rows — with rumors of screaming matches — were legendary.
In September 1994, police were called to the Upper East Side’s Mark Hotel, where they found Moss and a “possibly intoxicated” Depp in a trashed presidential suite after an alleged fight.
Depp blamed the mess on an armadillo that he said was hiding in the closet. No such creature was found.
A criminal court judge dismissed the charge against Depp on the condition that he stay out of trouble for six months. The actor paid The Mark more than $2,000 for damages.
Although the couple called it quits in 1997 after three years and a rumored engagement, they appeared together briefly at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1998, where Moss was reprimanded for wearing her bikini in the hallways of the legendary Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. In response, she reportedly trashed her hotel room and was banned from setting foot in the place for life.
Perhaps she was still stewing over Depp, who has taken responsibility for their split.
“I have never got that emotional over a woman before,” Depp said in an interview with Hello magazine in 1998. “I have been so stupid because we had so much going for our relationship. I’m the one who has to take responsibility for what happened — I was difficult to get on with, I let my work get in the way and I didn’t give her the attention I should have done.
“The whole thing was crazy because I should never have got so worked up over what people had to say about my work,” he said. “Sure I should care about my movies, but when I get home, I should try to leave that stuff behind. I couldn’t do that and I was horrific to live with. Trust me, I’m a total moron at times.”
Moss, meanwhile, admitted that she struggled for a long time following their breakup, telling Vanity Fair in 2012: “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?’ he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
“Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears!” she added.
Despite the fact they both went on to wed others, they remain close.
Moss has a daughter, 19-year-old model Lila, with publisher Jefferson Hack, and she was married to The Kills musician Jamie Hince from 2011 to 2016. She’s been dating photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck, 35, since 2015, and in January told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that being in love makes her “feel beautiful.”
After years of wild stories about her alcohol and drug use, the model told the magazine that she had given up going to clubs, adding: “I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.”
Depp was with French singer Vanessa Paradis from 1998 until 2012 and they share two children, actress Lily-Rose, 22, and Jack, 20. He wed Heard in 2015 and they divorced in 2018.
This is not the first time that Heard has mentioned Moss in court. In 2020, Depp was involved in a libel case against UK’s the Sun newspaper over an article that called him a “wife-beater.” Heard admitted in court that she struck the actor over fears that he would attack her sister, Whitney.
“I did strike Johnny that day, in defense of my sister,” she said in reference to the March 2015 fight. Heard claimed that her sister was standing at the top of a staircase.
“I had heard that he had pushed a former girlfriend, I think it was Kate Moss, down the stairs. And I thought of that at the moment and I reacted in defense of her [Whitney].”
Depp lost the case after Justice Andrew Nicol ruled that the Sun proved the article to be “substantially true.”
During the Sun case, Depp’s former fiancée Winona Ryder submitted a statement in his defense, saying, “I was absolutely shocked, confused and upset when I heard the accusations against him.
“I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man — an incredibly loving, extremely caring guy who was so very protective of me and the people that he loves, and I felt so very, very safe with him.”
Meanwhile, Paradis said in a statement to the court: “This is nothing like the true Johnny I have known … This is so upsetting as he has helped so many persons in his personal and professional life, with kindness and generosity.”
Depp’s long-forgotten first wife, Lori Anne Allison, also told The Post that she stood by him.
“I feel bad for Johnny having to go through this,” Allison said. “He has such an enormous heart and deserves happiness in life. He has never raised a hand to me or been violent towards me. I wish him the best and hope that he can get back to doing what he loves soon.”
Kate Moss will testify in Johnny Depp, Amber Heard trial
Model Kate Moss is expected to be called to the stand this week in Johnny Depp’s bombshell defamation trial against Amber Heard, The Post exclusively learned Monday.
The British fashion icon, 48, will testify via video link on Wednesday in the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom, sources with knowledge said.
Depp’s lawyers were spotted fist-pumping a few weeks back when Heard, 36, suddenly brought up Moss during her testimony.
Legal experts explained at the time that Heard mentioning Moss on the stand could give her ex-husband’s team the chance to dispel a rumor that he pushed the supermodel down a flight of stairs when the two dated in the 1990s.
“That’s one mistake that [Heard] made, was bringing up Kate Moss, which potentially opened the door to [Depp’s team] bringing [Moss] on as an impeachment witness” — and Moss “saying ‘This never happened,’” said California entertainment lawyer Mitra Ahouraian.
A source close to Depp told The Post at the time: “Amber mentioned an ex of Johnny’s that clearly she felt was not supportive of him, which couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Lawyers for the “Pirates of the Carribean” star will call Moss as a witness, the sources said Monday.
She was in a relationship with Depp between 1994 and 1997, and, according to sources, has always been supportive of the actor.
Heard brought up Moss while testifying on May 5, recounting a March 2015 fight in which she punched Depp in the face out of fear he was going to shove her sister Whitney down a staircase.
The “Aquaman” actress said she “instantly” thought about “Kate Moss and the stairs” — prompting Depp lawyer Ben Chew to turn and fist-pump.
Moss was not originally expected to testify because the rumored staircase incident wasn’t related to a specific accusation in the Virginia case. But Heard’s mention of the model paved the way for Depp’s team to call her to testify, experts said.
The testimony will come on the third to last day of the six-week trial, which is set to wrap up Friday. Moss could be a crucial character witness for Depp.
Depp, 58, is suing ex-wife Heard for $50 million over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed where she called herself a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Her essay didn’t name the actor, but he claims it defamed him, ruining his career and causing him to lose millions in revenue.
Heard countersued Depp for $100 million, saying he defamed her in 2020 when he and his lawyers made statements to the press that she had fabricated her allegations of abuse.
During Depp’s 2020 UK trial against Britain’s The Sun, Heard alleged that her ex-husband had once shoved Moss down a flight of stairs.
Describing the same fight involving her sister, Heard told the British court at the time: “I remembered information I had heard [that] he pushed a former girlfriend — I believe it was Kate Moss — down the stairs. I had heard this rumor from two people and it was fresh in my mind.”
Depp sued The Sun over an article that branded him a “wife beater.” He lost the case after the UK high court substantiated the majority of Heard’s allegations of abuse.