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Movie star Johnny Depp is a drunken, paranoid, wine-bottle-flinging wife-beater, Amber Heard alleged Friday — regaling a Los Angeles judge with harrowing tales of domestic violence and offering her own bruised face as proof. “During the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and physically abusive to me, Heard, 30, accuses Depp, 52, in bombshell court papers she filed in a successful bid for a restraining order.
“Johnny has a long-held and widely-acknowledged public and private history of drug and alcohol abuse,” Heard says in her papers, which now become part of the divorce proceedings she initiated on Monday after just 15 months of marriage.
“He has a short fuse,” she writes in her filing. “He is often paranoid and his temper is exceptionally scary for me as it has proven many times to be physically dangerous and/or life threatening to me.”
The Pirates of the Caribbean star had “wound up (his) arm like a baseball pitcher” and flung her iPhone at her right eye, she alleges of their most recent violent row, on May 21, last Saturday.
The glamorous “Magic Mike XXL” actress says she held her face and sobbed in pain on the sofa, but Depp “charged” her again.
“He then forcibly pulled back my hair as I attempted to stand on the sofa,” she alleges. “Johnny continued screaming at me, pulling my hair, striking me and violently grabbing my face.”
Heard carried several photographs of her bruise-reddened face to court with her Friday as proof of her injuries for the judge, the gossip website TMZ reported.
Her right cheek still bore a small red bruise as she left court wearing a somber black dress and with restraining order in hand. But for all her announced victimhood, Heard has been playing hardball with Depp behind the scenes this week.
According to court papers, Heard warned Depp’s side that if he didn’t play nice and quickly agree to “an amicable and private resolution” in the divorce, she’d have no choice but to air their dirty laundry.
“Although Amber is afraid of Johnny, she strongly insists that we do everything possible to keep this personal matter out of the media spotlight,” Heard’s lawyer warned Depp’s in a letter dated Tuesday. “Which is why . . . we did not arrange for Johnny to have been personally served at last night’s movie premiere” in Hollywood, for “Alice Through the Looking Glass.’’
A Los Angeles judge decreed that Depp must now stay 100 yards away from her.
Depp is in Europe anyway promoting “Looking Glass,” in which he plays the Mad Hatter.
The judge also ruled that Heard gets to live in the couple’s LA home, a three-unit penthouse. But Heard lost her bid to keep the couple’s Range Rover and to bar Depp from her Yorkshire terrier, Pistol.
Pistol and Depp’s dog, Boo, had gotten the couple in hot water last May when officials discovered that the stars had sneaked both pooches into Australia in violation of local quarantine rules.
The judge also denied Heard’s request that Depp be ordered to attend anger-management classes and pay her $50,000 a month for legal fees. Heard’s papers claim her assets total “only” $25,000.
Wasser also noted in the papers that Heard filed for divorce shortly after Depp’s mother, Betty Sue Palmer, died at age 81 after a long illness. “Amber filed her petition three days after the death of Johnny’s mother,” Wasser argued. “There has been significant commentary in the media as to this timing, given that Johnny was very close to his mother.
A previous argument erupted after Depp arrived “inebriated and high” and very late for her birthday party at their home, Heard’s papers allege. Depp also allegedly grabbed Heard by the hair and shoved her to the floor.
Depp allegedly offered her money to stay quiet about the incident, TMZ reported — but instead, she filed her divorce papers two days later.
Heard claims she has an ear-witness to the most recent violence, saying she was talking with close pal iO Tillett Wright as Depp pulled the phone from her hand.
Heard put Wright on speakerphone so all three parties could hear what was happening and “to prove his paranoid and irrational accusations about some delusional idea he was having,” Heard says in legal papers. “Johnny ripped the cell from my hand and began screaming profanities and insults at iO.”
“I heard iO yell at me to get out of the house. Johnny then grabbed the cellphone, wound up his arm like a baseball pitcher and threw the cellphone at me, striking my cheek and eye with great force.” Wright called 911, but arriving LAPD officers found Depp had left and Heard declining to give a statement.
An LAPD spokesman told The Post that there were no visible injuries or indication of violence, so the probe was closed.
Sources close to Depp are downplaying Heard’s claims of violence, insisting that on the very next day, Sunday, Heard was tagged in an Instagram photo of herself and two friends. No injuries are visible in that photo, they note — although Heard’s long bangs obscure her right eye.
On Thursday, Depp told People magazine, “Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and tragic loss of his mother, Johnny will not respond to any of the salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies about his personal life. Hopefully, the dissolution of this short marriage will be resolved quickly.”