19 h 1 mar 2019 año - PEOPLE Amber Heard Will Not Be Silenced After Johnny Depp Claims Her Abuse Allegations Were a Hoax

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Amber Heard 'Will Not Be Silenced' After Johnny Depp Claims Her Abuse Allegations Were a 'Hoax'

Heard's attorney released a statement in response to claims from her ex-husband that the op-ed she wrote alleging to be a domestic abuse victim was a "hoax"

By Joelle Goldstein

Amber Heard is speaking out after ex-husband Johnny Depp alleges that she lied about being a domestic abuse victim.

Following the defamation lawsuit filed by Depp on Friday, in which he claimed Heard’s accusations against him of domestic violence were a “hoax,” the actress’ legal team responded on her behalf, slamming the Pirates of the Caribbean actor.

“This frivolous action is just the latest of Johnny Depp’s repeated efforts to silence Amber Heard,” her attorney Eric M. George told PEOPLE in a statement. “She will not be silenced.”

Depp’s attorney Adam Waldman responded in a statement:

Telling media ‘they want to silence Amber Heard’ doesn’t sound like a denial by Ms. Heard of Mr. Depp’s 40-page, evidence-packed complaint.”

“We hardly intend to silence Ms. Heard — to the contrary, we intend to subpoena and compel evidence from her, her three hoax-assisting friends, and Elon Musk. We look forward to holding the overwhelming video, photographic and eyewitness evidence we finally possess up against Amber Heard’s (so far silent) attempts to explain the inexplicable.”

In his lawsuit, Depp alleged that Heard, 32, began a romantic relationship with Tesla founder Musk “no later than one month after” she and Depp married in 2015.

Depp, 55, and Heard, 32, met on the set of 2011’s The Rum Diary and were married from February 2015 to May 2016.

A rep for Musk maintains that “Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent. Their relationship didn’t become romantic until some time later.”

The actress filed for a domestic violence restraining order against Depp in May 2016 after she accused him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016 for $7 million, which she donated to charity. Both actors signed NDAs barring them from discussing their relationship publicly.

On Friday, Depp’s lawyers filed the $50 million defamation suit against Heard over her Dec. 18, 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post titled, “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”

In the lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE, Depp sued for compensatory and punitive damages after claiming Heard’s allegations of domestic violence against him were false.

Heard “purported to write from the perspective of ‘a public figure representing domestic abuse’ and claimed that she ‘felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out’ when she ‘spoke up against sexual violence,’ ” Depp’s lawyers state in the lawsuit.

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