12 h, oct 14, 2021 y - THE AUSTRALIAN
American Schnauzer
Government Investigating
Amber Heard
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Australian politics is going to the dogs. Literally. It’s been 15 months since Strewth revealed the government was investigating Amber Heard – former wife of Barnaby Joyce’s Hollywood nemesis Johnny Depp — for possible perjury over the Pistol and Boo star-paws saga. And yet the Agriculture Department refuses to provide an update to the case. Hound lovers may recall that the now Deputy Prime Minister gave the two yorkshire terriers a death deadline in May 2015 — “bugger off back to the US” on a private jet or authorities would euthanise them within 50 hours — after the then agriculture minister discovered they had been smuggled into the country. Heard avoided conviction in April 2016 after she pleaded guilty to giving Customs a false document but was forced to pay a $1000 fine and film a hostage video – sorry – biosecurity apology alongside Depp. Pistol and Boo made headlines again last year, during the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s failed libel case against The Sun. Depp launched the defamation proceedings after the newspaper branded him a “wife beater”, wording the judge went on to rule was “substantially true”. During that trial, Depp’s former estate manager Kevin Murphy told a Gold Coast court that he was threatened to lie under oath about the dogs’ illegal entry to Queensland. Murphy said he warned Heard by email, phone and in person that she could not take the dogs down under because the relevant paperwork and permits were not complete, including arrangements for the mandatory 10-day quarantine. Heard’s former assistant Kate James also claimed the actor “deliberately smuggled the dogs into Australia” and acted as if “she was above the law”. Heard denied she asked anyone to lie on her behalf. Talk about High Fidolity!
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