Johnny Depp repeatedly hit Amber Heard in the face during an argument at the

couple’s penthouse in March 2015, Heard’s sister told a jury on Wednesday.

The sister, Whitney Henriquez, was called to the stand to corroborate Heard’s
allegations that Depp repeatedly assaulted her over the course of their four-year
relationship. Heard is defending herself from a defamation suit brought by Depp in
Fairfax, Va.

Henriquez described witnessing a fight in which Depp and Heard were screaming
obscenities at each other. Depp ran upstairs toward a mezzanine and hit Henriquez
in the back, she said, and then Heard smacked him, saying “Don’t hit my fucking
sister.” Depp’s security guard then ran up the stairs.

“Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her
repeatedly in the face with the other, as I was standing there,” Henriquez said.

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for defamation in Fairfax, Va., over a 2018 op-ed she
wrote for the Washington Post about surviving domestic violence. Depp — who was
married to Heard from 2015 to 2017 — claims his ex fabricated abuse allegations in
an attempt to score a huge divorce settlement, which has damaged his career.