Johnny reportedly dates 37-year-old London attorney Joelle Rich.
Rich represented him during a libel trial with The Sun in 2020; he lost. His legal team called the verdict ‘bewildering.’
A source told UsWeekly that Rich and Depp are’seriously dating’ and that ‘their chemistry is off the charts’
Rich, a partner at Schillings, is divorcing her two-child husband Jonathan.
The claims about Depp’s relationship with her come after rumors he was dating another lawyer, Camille Vasquez.
DailyMail.com revealed in June that Vasquez was dating a WeWork executive.
Johnny
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is reportedly dating Joelle Rich, 37, a partner at the international law firm Schillings.
The mother-of-two and her financier husband are reportedly divorcing.
Us Weekly quoted an insider as calling Rich and Depp’s relationship’serious’
Their chemistry is off the charts, a source said. The source said, ‘They’re serious.’ They’re legit.
Ms Rich represented the actor in his ill-fated libel battle against the Sun in July 2020 at London’s High Court.
The article said there was ‘overwhelming evidence’ Depp abused Amber Heard.
A High Court judge found without a jury that Ms. Heard’s testimony of abuse was’substantially true’
Depp’s lawyers called the ruling ‘perverse’ and ‘bewildering’
Ms Rich wasn’t part of Depp’s legal team in his defamation case against Heard in the U.S., which he won earlier this year in Fairfax, Virginia.
Us Weekly stated that Rich was in court to’support’ Depp.
Ms Rich, born Joelle Rashti, grew raised in the north London suburb of Mill Hill.
She attended North London Collegiate School, where Esther Rantzen and Rachel Weisz also attended.
Edgware’s school costs £22,308 per year.
Ms. Rich studied law at Birmingham University in 2003, when she met Jonathan Rich.
After graduating in 2006, she became a trainee solicitor at DLA Piper in London, where she specialized in intellectual property, media, and sport litigation.
Ms Rich joined Schillings in 2011 after marrying Jonathan in Tuscany, Italy.
She was promoted to partner at the law firm that represents the Sussexes and Emma Watson. She earns over £250,000 a year, reportedly.
Ms Rich defends clients’ reputations in print, online, and on social media, according to her Schillings biography.
She protects her clients’ privacy from unwarranted intrusion and media attention.
Ms. Rich defended Depp in March after he was denied an appeal.
She told Deadline that she’seriously questioned’ the UK judge’s judgment and that Depp was looking forward to ‘presenting the comprehensive, indisputable proof of the truth in the U.S. libel action against Ms. Heard, where she would have to offer full disclosure’
After graduating from Birmingham, Ms. Rich’s husband trained as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Bluebox as a director.
Ms. Rich and her mother Ava Rashti appeared in a bridal magazine before her Tuscany wedding, which was place in a villa where Room With a View was filmed in 1985.
Merchant Ivory’s EM Forster-based romance drama stars Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands as teenage lovers with Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
Ms. Rich wore a £10,000 Duchesse-satin wedding dress by South Kensington designer Phillipa Lepley and £20,000 in diamond and gold jewelry.
Her mother wore a £2000 Stewart Parvin silk dress, an £8,000 De Beers diamond ring, $5,300 diamond and platinum earrings, and $395 Jimmy Choo shoes.
Ms. Rich told another magazine: ‘We wanted to get married overseas and chose Florence after seeing the synagogue.
A Room With a View was filmed at our Tuscan property.
It had a large garden where we could place tables and a dance floor, she said. Jewish wedding guests dance during supper, therefore this is crucial.
‘Italian banquet during the reception. Table displays included gold dinnerware, furnishings, flowers, herbs, and fruit. Romantic candles were everywhere.
290 guests attended. When I tried to thank them, I started crying and my mother had to remove me off stage.
Her advice to brides was to “focus on you and your fiancé”
She and Jonathan, now 38, live in a £1.7 million home near her childhood home.
Unknown when their marriage failed, they are currently living apart, but Ms Rich still uses her husband’s surname.
False rumors circulated that Depp was dating Camille Vasquez, 38, who worked on his defamation case in Virginia.
Ms Vasquez refuted rumors of a romance with the actor, and DailyMail.com later discovered she was dating Edward Owen, a British CEO for the office-rental giant WeWork.
The Los Angeles law school graduate called reports of a romance’sexist’ and ‘unethical’
Ms. Vasquez said, ‘It’s unpleasant and disappointing, but it’s part of the job.’ I wasn’t shocked.
Depp sued Heard, 36, in Virginia for an op-ed she penned in 2018 alleging domestic violence.
In June, a jury awarded him $10.35 million in damages.
Ms Heard was granted $2 million in damages after a jury found one of Depp’s lawyers defamed her.
Depp said he lost movie roles because of Heard’s abuse allegations during their brief marriage.
After winning defamation, his career took off. His return to stardom was sealed when he appeared at the 2022 MTV VMAs in a moon costume.