A friend of Amber Heard’s has made a shocking claim that Johnny Depp tried to smother his now estranged wife during a drunken rage.
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According to the friend, Heard texted her after the terrifying alleged attack in December. She then rushed to the couple’s home in LA and found Heard bruised.
“I got to her apartment to find her with a cut and bruised lip, a swollen eye and a chunk of hair missing from the top of her head,” her pal told Page Six.
“This incident really stuck with me because she confided in me that day that she feared for her life after an intoxicated Johnny tried to suffocate her with a pillow.”
People magazine has released photos of Heard looking beaten after that exact attack.
She said it wasn’t the first time the 52-year-old actor had been violent towards Heard, 30, after being boozed up.
“I have personally witnessed the aftermath of Johnny Depp’s violent and abusive behaviour towards her on many occasions,” the friend said of Heard.
In court documents, Heard claims: “During the entirety of our relationship, Johnny has been verbally and physically abusive to me.”
She appeared in court last week with a black eye, accusing Depp of throwing a phone at her face with much force, and was granted a restraining order against him.
Two days ago it came to light that Heard could walk away from the divorce with US$20 million after 15 months of marriage.
There are also recent allegations that Depp punched a wall so hard he required surgery, putting a one-month hold on filming the next Pirates of the Caribbean instalment in Australia last year.
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In comparison to the Turnbull Government’s focus on the economy this election, the Shorten Opposition’s pitch to women is about fairness and “putting people first”.
This is partly because the Labor Party traditionally believes government funding for the services people depend upon, like health and education, is just as important as having a strong economy.
But Labor also hopes that, when it talks about fairness, voters will be reminded of the unfair budget that Tony Abbott delivered in 2014.
That was the budget where Abbott broke a pile of election promises and then increased costs or reduced payments for students, the elderly, the unemployed and the sick, while doing very little to make the wealthy pay their fair share.
When Labor leader Bill Shorten and his team talk about fairness, they want voters to be worried that if Malcolm Turnbull is re-elected, he might also break his election promises and turn out to be just like Tony Abbott.
Shorten introducing the same-sex marriage bill to federal parliament.
Apart from trying to scare voters away from the Government, the Opposition is also trying to lure them to Labor. According to one opinion poll, Labor has been very successful in getting men to switch their vote from the Government to the Opposition. But when women are abandoning Turnbull’s team, they are going to the Greens and other parties as well as Labor.
What’s more, three in ten Australian women haven’t yet decided which party they prefer.
This means Labor has to capture the hearts and minds of a lot more women if it is to win the July election.
So what does the alternative government have to offer us?
For women with families, Labor has promised to deliver increases in funding for education and health promised by Julia Gillard when she was prime minister.
In fact, education is the central theme of Labor’s election pitch. It’s an expensive commitment that aims to fund every school according to the needs of its students.
Labor has also promised that computer programming will be taught in all schools, teachers will get better qualifications in science, technology, engineering and maths, and there will be additional support for Indigenous students and students with disabilities.
There’s also program to help young people in areas with high unemployment get into work.
In health, Labor has committed to lift the freeze on Medicare rebates that doctors say is putting pressure on them to give up bulk billing, scrap a plan to increase prescriptions by $5, improve the system for helping people with mental health issues, and fund local initiatives aimed at reducing suicides.
Three in ten Australian women haven’t yet decided which party they prefer.
When it comes to Australia’s working women, Labor’s election commitments focus on those at the lower end of the pay scale. The Opposition promises to crack down on employers who exploit workers, as well as those who re-arrange their businesses to avoid paying out employees when a business shuts down.
Under Labor, new mothers can receive paid parental leave from their employer in addition to payments from the Government.
Labor also has additional funding for women experiencing family violence, including more funds for legal services, grants to help women be safer at home, and better information sharing between the police, courts, child protection and other government agencies. It has also committed to introducing five days’ paid leave for people who experience domestic or family violence.
If this sounds like a lot of spending, it is. The Opposition says it will pay for its promises by making big business and high-income earners pay more tax, scrapping negative gearing for established homes, and not going ahead with some of the Government’s election commitments such as the company tax cut.
But at the end of the day, Labor says some types of spending, like health and education, are more important than balancing the budget.
It will be in the hands of female voters on election day to say whether Labor is right.
A teacher in America has allegedly had an affair with a 13-year-old student who got her pregnant and apparently, the boy’s parents are accepting of the relationship.
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Alexandria Vera, 24, an English teacher, allegedly met the boy when he was a student in her year eight class during summer school, ABC13 reports.
According to KPRC Houston, the boy sent Vera a message on Instagram asking for her number and if they could hang out alone.
According to court documents, she claims she and the teen are in love and she’s been introduced to his family as his girlfriend.
The documents also reveal that Vera – who has a four-year-old daughter according to WWL-TV – allegedly became pregnant with his baby in January.
However, after she was visited by the Child Protective Services in February, she reportedly terminated the pregnancy.
She’s charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
She’s since turned herself into authorities.
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Kirsten Dunst and her on-screen husband from the hit show Fargo, Jesse Plemons, were apparently caught smooching on an outing earlier this week.
Reports out of the US claim the couple enjoyed a stroll together before going behind a fence to engage in a smooch.
Photos have emerged from the steamy event that show the Spider-Man actress with her arms wrapped around Jesse’s neck, their heads tilted in a passionate kiss.
Jesse and Kirsten, sitting in a tree!
Kirsten had always been a big fan of Jesse’s before they both worked on Fargo; his show Friday Night Lights was one of her favourites.
And it seems the love was mutual.
Kirsten and Jesse had loved each other’s work from afar before playing husband and wife in Fargo.
“It was a gift,” Jesse said of working with Kirsten in a recent interview.
“I loved Kirsten’s work for a long time and I was really excited once I’d met her, and she’s a great person, and we’re both actors that just… have fun with the material.”
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This comes less than a month after Kirsten and her former boyfriend Garrett Hedlund split after four years of dating.
The pair were living together at the time of the split, and there had even been rumours flying about an engagement before the two called it quits.
Kirsten and Garrett were together four years before their bombshell split.
The blonde and her former boyfriend also met on set, when they starred in the 2011 film On the Road.
It’s unknown whether Jesse had anything to do with the split, but one thing looks certain… Kirsten is moving on!
The five-year-old boy from Belfast was with his brother when he spotted the yellow plastic shell – which normally contains a toy – in a hedge, reports Daily Star.
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However, when they cracked it open, they found a bag of white powder which police confirmed was methamphetamine.
The boys handed the substance over to their dad who turned it in to the police.
Megan Fox dropped a pretty strange bombshell recently, revealing her unborn baby talks to her.
During an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the mother-of-two spilled the beans on her strong bond with her soon-to-be bundle of joy, telling him the baby even sometimes tells her what to do… including to move house!
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“You don’t hear an audible voice, but I feel like you receive messages from the child if you’re open to it,” Megan confessed to host Jimmy Kimmel.
“For instance, this baby wanted me to live somewhere else,” the actress explained.
“So we’re moving to a whole different place in Los Angeles because I feel like that’s where this baby wants to be raised.”
Megan dropped the odd revelation to Jimmy Kimmel and he couldn’t help but laugh.
The actress also confessed her unborn child, who Woman’s Day Online revealed is another boy, has already told her it’s going to be a “super genius”, like the next Elon Musk or Wernher von Braun.
Jimmy jokingly agreed: “Well if this baby is able to convince you to move out of your house, it is a super genius.
“Or it’s a realtor… It might be a baby realtor.”
Megan cut a fine figue on her way into the recording studio, her rounded bump proudly on display.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actress is already a mum to three-year-old Noah and two-year-old Bodhi.
She says she’s already told both the boys all of the heavy details about where babies come from.
“They think it’s so funny you feed a baby from your boobies!” she said.
Rob Kardashian is set to step out of the shadow of his famous sisters by getting his own reality show.
The series will follow the 29-year-old and his bride-to-be, Black Chyna, as they prepare for their wedding and the arrival of their first child together.
Blac is said to be thrilled to be getting her claws into the Kardashian brand.
E! News confirmed the new reality show will be six episodes, and the couple will serve as co-executive producers.
The show has a working title of Rob & Chyna.
“Very few love stories have created as much pop culture buzz as Rob and Chyna’s, and we are thrilled to see Rob in such a happy place,” E! spokesman Jeff Olde said on Wednesday.
“We are excited to share the next chapter in their relationship.”
Blac and Rob won’t be in Kim Kardashian’s shadow for long!
Radar Online reported that momager Kris Jenner had been working on a show deal for the couple that would reportedly include a “massive summer wedding.”
But plans were said to have been renegotiated when it was announced that Blac was expecting as well.
Kris is said to have inked out the mega-bucks deal for the happy couple.
An insider spilled to Radar that Kris was not happy to continue with the same deal now that a baby would add value to the show.
“Rob and Blac both feel that having their own spin-off show under the direction of Kris Jenner is the best way for them to profit off this entire situation,” the source said.
It’s a massive about-face for Kris, who was not the biggest fan of Blac when the relationship first started, along with the rest of Rob’s siblings.
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With news that the couple will reportedly be netting more than $1 million for their first baby photos, this deal is more than likely going to be a lucrative one.
“Rob and Blac are trying to have this deal locked down by the end of the week and they are requesting to be paid close to $5 million,” the insider revealed.
A Melbourne mother who was in a sexual relationship with her nephew helped him rape her 12-year-old daughter in what would spark years of abuse.
The court heard the girl was being attacked by her cousin when she cried out for help but instead of stopping it the mother helped hold her child down so she could get a better view, reports The Melbourne Age.
“The girl is crying and it’s hurting . . . and [the mother] holds the leg so she can see what’s happening,” prosecutor Michael Hennessy told the court on Wednesday.
The girl told police she was a target of her cousin’s sexual abuse since 2011 when she was 12 until 2014, when she was 15. It only stopped once the man was arrested when she told one of her older siblings about the rapes.
On Wednesday the 42-year-old man pleaded guilty in the County Court of Victoria to persistent sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16.
The 55-year-old woman – who reportedly participated in the single attack – pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a child and an indecent act with a child.
The mother and her nephew began a sexual relationship in 2011 when the woman’s marriage broke up and he let her and the daughter move into one of his houses.
The nephew’s defence said the man had expressed remorse in a letter to the daughter, who is now 17.
But Judge Claire Quin was not satisfied.
According to The Age, Judge Quin said: “Reading the whole tenor of it, I don’t see it.”
Wildlife authorities in Thailand have made the horrific discovery of 40 dead tiger cubs inside a freezer at a Buddhist temple.
Following raids this week shocking images show several rows of tiger carcasses lined up along the floor, alongside a small bear, as well as jars, reportedly containing animal parts.
The Kanchanaburi province park – where tourists pay to pet and take pictures with the big cats and other animals – is now being accused of wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty after years of abuse allegations and illegal breeding.
The park is home to more than 100 tigers but earlier this week wildlife officials moved 52 live tigers, but 85 are still reportedly residing there.
The dead cubs were found in a kitchen area, Department of National Parks deputy director-general Adisorn Nuchdamrong said.
“They must be of some value for the temple to keep them,” he said.
“But for what is beyond me.”
Monks at the temple were not immediately available for comment but earlier this year park administers made a Facebook post claiming they only froze the tigers once they had died.
“Cubs do occasionally die for various reasons … in the past, as per Buddhist customs, these tiger cubs were cremated,” the Facebook post said.
“In 2010, the ex-vet of Tiger Temple changed this policy. Instead of cremation, the deceased cubs were preserved in jars or kept frozen.
“We have documented all the deaths from 2010 and have photographic evidence of them still being within the temple.”
But these claims have not calmed animal activists.
According to the World Wildlife Fund one of the biggest problems conservation groups face is the killing of exotic animals for their parts and tiger’s are especially valuable on the black-market because of their use in traditional Chinese medicine.
Just one day after writing a blog post likening the rise of Nazi Germany to Safe Schools and the fight for equal marriage, the Australian Christian Lobby’s director Lyle Shelton told The Project he didn’t think his comments were offensive.
After being pressed on the statements made in his post by hosts Waleed Aly and Carrie Bickmore the conservative campaigner said, “Well … I … Can’t understand why people would be offended, Carrie.”
“I wasn’t in any way saying that same-sex marriage or anything … Safe Schools was like the Holocaust. What I’m saying is at the moment we’ve got some bad ideas being put forward in public policy, telling young people, children as young as four in our schools, that no one can tell you what gender you are, through this Gender Fairy public relations from the Safe Schools coalition.
“That is what happened in the 1930s in Germany. The parallel is between speaking up or not speaking up when bad ideas are put forward in public policy. It is no offence to anyone at all.”
In his controversial post Mr Shelton appeared to call the promotion of LGBT awareness and acceptance in Safe Schools – a voluntary program intended to assist school-age children in better understanding sexuality and gender issues – as “unthinkable”. And went on to make the tenuous comparison that that progressive way of thinking was akin to the dangerous propaganda occurring in Germany during the Nazi regime.
“That Labor leader Bill Shorten can promise during an election to fund the so-called ‘Safe Schools’ program which teaches children as young as four that ‘only you can know if you are a boy or a girl — no one can tell you’ and there be so little push back is a failure of those of us who know better,” Shelton wrote.
“Changing the definition of marriage to entrench motherless and fatherlessness in public policy and teaching our kids their gender is fluid should be opposed.
“The cowardice and weakness of Australia’s ‘gatekeepers’ is causing unthinkable things to happen, just as unthinkable things happened in Germany in the 1930s.”
While on The Project Mr Shelton was asked to explain the links the blog drew between The Gender Fairy book – a book aimed at helping kids deal with gender dysmorphia – to the Safe Schools program, a claim co-host Waleed Aly told him is was “inaccurate”.
“We have heard from the woman who wrote it… she says it has nothing to do with Safe Schools,” Aly said.
Mr Shelton refuted that and said the book “is promoted by Safe Schools through their resources and it encourages schools to stock this in their library. It is a resource for four-year-olds and it says only you know whether you are a boy or a girl.”
But Aly later showed a statement from the Australian Safe Schools Coalition verifying that the book was not included in their reading lists.
