Amber Heardhas switched to a new crisis management firm amid herongoing defamation trialwithJohnny Depp.
PEOPLE confirms that Heard, 36, has parted ways with Precision Strategies — an organization based on the East Coast, where theAquamanactress is currently facing Depp, 58, in court.
According toNBC News, Heard has newly enlisted the services of The Management Group, a company based in Beverly Hills, California.
The switch comes after Depp took the stand in Fairfax, Virginia, over several days to share his version of events. Heard has yet to testify and is expected to do so this week,
Reps for Heard, Precision Strategies and The Management Group did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
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The pair met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diaryand later wed in 2015. They broke up in May 2016 when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, andthey settled their divorceout of court in August 2016.
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Depp has testified that his “goal is the truth” as he seeks to clear his name in the trial, which is being televised live via various outlets. Ahead of the trial, Heard said in a statement that “hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny. I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world.”
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Rottenborn told the courtroom, “Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. … You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”
Concluding his testimony earlier this week, Depp — who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any woman — said that, after Heard’s allegations against him, he lost “nothing short of everything.”
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
source: people.com
