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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Did Johnny Depp Really Lose ‘Pirates’ Because of Amber’s Op-Ed?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Matt is joined by divorce attorney Brett Ward to discuss whether Johnny Depp has a case that he lost tens of millions of dollars of potential career earnings because of Amber Heard’s op-ed in The Washington Post. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Brett Ward Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo, Rob Harvilla from 60 Songs That Explain the 90s here to inform you that we are back with 30 more songs because the 90s were super long and had a ton of rad music.

0:10.7

Please join us every Wednesday for more 60 songs that explain the 90s only on Spotify.

0:17.8

All right, it is Wednesday, May 4th, and we are going to get into a pretty substantial

0:23.2

serious topic today with the Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial. We had a kind of a halfway point

0:29.4

because the Depp side of the case rested. We, as we speak, are expecting Amber Heard to testify

0:36.1

this afternoon. And it's a nice way for us to do a check

0:39.6

in on this case. I've been following it pretty closely. You very, very rarely, if ever,

0:45.0

see this kind of detail about an A-list relationship in Hollywood spill out into the public. And

0:51.7

it is an actual interesting legal and financial question as to what

0:56.6

the possible damages are in this case. So we're going to get into that today. Craig, first, though,

1:02.6

I have to atone. I made a big error on Monday's show. I said that the Bruce Springsteen song,

1:10.0

57 channels and nothing's on, was a dire

1:12.8

straight song, which I greatly regret, and I blame you for not catching me on that.

1:18.5

Guilty is charged. I just, I assume that any like 80s music reference, you know what you're

1:23.9

talking about, but this is a 1992 song from Bruce Springsteen, which I know for you must be probably,

1:30.7

you know, like still ancient history, but it's something I should have known.

1:34.4

And I take full responsibility.

1:35.8

Thank you, everybody, for reaching out.

1:38.1

But all right, with that, we are going to get into the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial.

1:42.2

My guest is attorney Brett Ward, who is a

1:44.3

divorce specialist. We will get into all the details. I'm Matt Bellany, and this is the town.

1:53.0

All right, we are here with Brett Ward. Brett is a partner at Blank Rome in New York, and he is the

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