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Millions of viewers around the world tune in to watch the legal battle between two Hollywood heavyweights: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
As the drama unfolds, a new star takes center stage: Camille Vasquez, from the actor's legal defense team.
The California attorney, of Latina origin, caught the attention of millions amid the defamation lawsuit her client filed against Heard.
Vasquez, 37, became an unexpected and unwitting co-star in the proceedings, gaining fans for her forceful legal style.
The shirts with your name and the hashtags that praise her are multiplying on social networks.
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Johnny Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, was relentless with Heard.
A two-minute video of Vasquez repeatedly interrupting Heard's lawyer to "object" to it, a legal term used to lodge a formal protest in court, amassed more than 27 million views on TikTok in a few days.
The viral clip even spawned parodies on social media, in which users "object" their friends and family in conversation. Added to this, TikTok videos that use the hashtag #CamilleVasquez have accumulated hundreds of millions of views.
"I'm still a Johnny Depp fan," reads one of the many tweets about the case. "But now I'm also a huge Camille Vasquez fan."
Who is the lawyer who is catching the attention of viewers following the trial?
Born in San Francisco of Cuban and Colombian descent, Vasquez graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006 and from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles in 2010.
For four years now She is an associate at Brown Rudnick, the high-profile firm hired by Johnny Depp. to represent him in his US$1.4T.50 million defamation case against Heard. She is one of nine lawyers from the firm involved in the trial.
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In 2021, she was appointed one of the lawyers One to Watch (someone to pay attention to) from the magazine Best Lawyer ("Best Lawyer").
He specializes in litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on defamation cases, as he is doing for Depp.
To her new followers, however, Vasquez is perhaps best known for her many objections and a series of tense exchanges with Heard.
During two days of cross-examination, Vasquez sought to cast doubt on Heard's account of her troubled marriage to Depp, hoping jurors would see inconsistencies in her claims.
"You're the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, aren't you, Ms. Heard?" Vasquez asked in an exchange referencing a chaotic 2015 fight in Australia, in which Heard alleges Depp sexually assaulted her with a bottle.
"I wasn't afraid of him at all, was I?"
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Amber Heard was in the state for four days.
Other memorable moments from the trial include Vasquez questioning Heard about the fate of US$1.47 million previously pledged to charity, accusing her of photoshoped photos of herself with bruises, and, in one instance, suggesting that she owes her box office success in part to Depp.
"Johnny Depp got you that role in Aquaman"No?" Vasquez asked.
Vasquez's vigorous defense of Depp also made her a topic of discussion within the # movement.MeToo against sexual abuse and harassment.
Some critics accused her of disbelieving Heard's claims or discrediting her abuse allegations.
"Thanks to Camille Vasquez for setting feminism back 50 years in less than two hours.""History won't remember you kindly," said one Twitter user.
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Her followers, on the other hand, praise her for what they consider her defense of the rights of men who are victims of domestic violence and as a potential role model.
However, it remains to be seen whether Vasquez's popularity among Depp supporters translates into success in court.
"It's hard to know if the public's reaction online is the same as what the jurors are having," Halim Dhanidina, a lawyer and former judge, told The Daily Beast.
However, Dhanidina said Vasquez's popularity suggests the trial is an "uphill battle" for Heard.
"The public doesn't like you, and they even like Johnny Depp's lawyer more," she said. "That has to bother you a little."
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