A Makeup Brand Is Trying to Profit Off of the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard Case
Milani Cosmetics bizarrely weighed in on the famous couple's ongoing defamation trial on TikTok.
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Milani Cosmetics has taken a side in the ongoing libel lawsuit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yes, Milani Cosmetics, a drugstore cosmetics brand, has waded into a lawsuit currently being argued in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia that does not directly concern the brand.
On Thursday, the brand’s TikTok posted a 15-second video set to the app’s popular audio clip from The Backyardigan’s song “International Super Spy.” The video uses clips from the trial, showing someone holding up a Milani Cosmetics concealer palette, and alleges that Heard carried this color corrector concealer palette with her “FOR THE ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP.” (Court filings show the relationship began at the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012, after Depp broke up with his longterm partner Vanessa Paradis. Depp and Heard were married in 2015 and Heard later filed for divorce in May 2016.)
In a case where domestic violence allegations are being volleyed back and forth, the use of a concealer by legal counsel to make a point seems almost expected. Of course, as brands are wont to do, Milani Cosmetics used the moment as an advertising opportunity and took their inclusion at the trial to their brand’s TikTok page. The TikTok turns this prop (it’s unclear if this was entered into evidence or used as an example by counsel) into its own Zapruder film to discredit Heard.