![]() Aside from everything else, Depp had always been unusually eloquent for an A-lister, with a courtly, old-fashioned conversational style. More destructive to Depp’s career, and more dismaying to those who have followed him from the early days, was seeing how low he had fallen: throwing phones at his wife’s head zonked out and covered in ice-cream so riddled with jealousy of Heard’s male co-stars he referred to Leonardo DiCaprio as “pumpkin head” and Channing Tatum as “potato head” sending vicious emails and texts to friends about Heard in which he referred to her as a “ flappy fish market”. So testimonies about private jets, cocaine for breakfast and arguments over – in perhaps the most memorable part of the trial – whether Heard or her yorkshire terrier had defecated in Depp’s bed were titillating, but little more. For a while, his life has been absurdly over the top: when he was asked in 2018 if it was true, as his managers alleged, that he spent $30,000 a month on wine, he replied that this was “ insulting … because it was far more”. Next year in the US he has a $50m (£38m) defamation case against Heard regarding an opinion piece she wrote about being the victim of domestic abuse the verdict of this case will surely have some impact on the next one.īut it’s not just the judge’s verdict that has decimated Depp’s reputation. It was always risky for Depp to pursue this case. But none of that could change the fact that the judge, Mr Justice Nicol, found the majority of Heard’s allegations that Depp abused her proved to the civil standard, and that, therefore, the Sun was entitled to describe him as a “wife-beater”. ![]() The court heard recordings of Heard verbally abusing Depp and admitting to “clocking” him and throwing pots and pans at him. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Imagesīut by now, most of the world has seen the photos of Heard’s bruised face, and the court case presented a relationship that had become gruesomely toxic. He sued the Sun for defamation when it described him as “a wife-beater”, something Connery would never have done, and it’s why for a certain kind of fan (me), this feels like the death of yet another childhood hero.ĭepp with Amber Heard in 2015. Depp, however, represented something else. No one ever said it explicitly, but Connery’s defences for beating women fit in, on some level, with his image, and so that side of him was never going to be a problem with his audience. The latter represented alpha masculinity and aggressive sexuality. His death this weekend sparked online arguments about how much the coverage should focus on the professional achievements of a man who repeatedly insisted it was fine to hit women, “if the woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually”, as he said in 1965.īut Depp is a very different figure from Connery. Sean Connery was alleged to have beaten his first wife and frequently defended hitting women. It should also not be a shock, given how many other hugely famous men have been accused of abusing women. For a start, the allegation that he was physically abusive to his ex-wife Amber Heard emerged more than four years ago, after she applied for a temporary restraining order against him following their divorce, citing domestic abuse. ![]() ![]() Just writing that sentence feels genuinely shocking, and yet, by now perhaps, it should not.
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