Anybody in search of Amber Heard on Twitter on Thursday noticed a clean profile web page with the message that, “This account does not exist.”
Reps for Heard, who maintains 5.3 million followers on her energetic Instagram account, didn’t instantly reply to Yahoo Leisure’s request for remark. Neither did Twitter, which Heard’s ex, Elon Musk, started taking on Oct. 28 in a $44 billion deal.
Quite a lot of celebrities have mentioned that they’re taking a break from or leaving the platform altogether within the wake of its new possession. Musk has mentioned that he needs to advertise free speech on the platform and think about the reinstatement of accounts that the corporate beforehand banned, as a result of, for instance, they had been spreading false data or inciting violence.
Musk and Heard had been romantically linked simply after her 2016 cut up with actor Johnny Depp, and so they went public the next yr. After a brief breakup in late 2017, they ended their romance for good in Feb. 2018. However they appeared to stay pleasant, and her authorized staff even listed Musk as a possible witness in her ongoing authorized battle over defamation with Depp. Musk did not find yourself testifying.
Somebody who did testify, although, was Christian Carino, a former expertise agent of each Heard and Depp, who offered texts exchanged with Heard after her relationship with Musk resulted in 2017. In one among them, Heard had texted that she was “simply filling house” with Musk after her marriage ended.
Nonetheless, in Might, Musk tweeted about Depp and Heard, “I hope they both move on.” He added, “At their finest, they’re every unbelievable.”
On the identical day that Heard’s Twitter account disappeared, TMZ reported that there had been one other improvement in Heard and Depp’s lengthy authorized combat. Depp reportedly filed paperwork on Wednesday interesting the jury’s ruling in favor of her in a single depend of defamation, for which she was awarded $2 million. In the identical trial, Depp was awarded $10.35 million, because the court docket discovered that Heard had defamed the Edward Scissorhands star. She has additionally appealed the choice.