The reported change
TheWrap reported on May 1, 2022 that Amber Heard had replaced public-relations firm Precision Strategies with a team led by David Shane as she prepared to testify in the defamation trial involving Johnny Depp. The report concerned the handling of press coverage. It was not a court finding about the disputed allegations.
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Public-relations staff work on communication with the media. Lawyers represent a party in legal proceedings. A change in the first team does not automatically mean the second team has changed, and neither establishes whether testimony is true. The inherited headline framed the switch as a reaction to unfavorable coverage; that interpretation should remain attributed to the contemporary report, rather than treated as independent knowledge of Heard's private motives. When reading trial news, separate a party's media strategy, the evidence presented and the court's eventual decisions. Our related Facebook lawsuit explainer applies the same distinction to a damages demand: the amount someone requests is not a verdict awarding it.
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