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Amber Heard “threatened” an assistant into lying to Australian authorities after the actress was busted smuggling her two pooches without proper paperwork, a UK court was told Wednesday. Heard, 34, had been arrested in 2015 — at one point facing up to 10 years in prison — for illegally taking Yorkshire terriers Pistol and Boo …

Johnny Depp’s estate manager told a UK court Wednesday how he found the star’s severed fingertip in a trashed rental home — and saw cuts on Amber Heard’s arms. Ben King recalled how he was “urgently summoned” in March 2015 to the blood-covered home in Australia where he “found a significant amount of damage, particularly …

Ghislaine Maxwell is secretly married — and refusing to reveal her husband’s name, prosecutors said this week at the accused madam’s bail hearing. The bombshell detail was divulged Tuesday as Manhattan prosecutors accused her of purposely hiding the extent of her wealth. “In addition to failing to describe in any way the absence of proposed …

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for “a possible infection,” a Supreme Court spokesperson said on Tuesday. Ginsburg was initially taken to a hospital in Washington, D.C., on Monday night after experiencing “fever and chills.” At 87 years old, Ginsburg is the eldest member the Supreme Court. “[Ginsburg] underwent …

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she recruited and groomed girls for the financier to sexually abuse more than two decades ago. The 58-year-old British socialite is charged with recruiting at least three girls, one as young as 14, in the mid 90s, and has been held without bail …

Ghislaine Maxwell cried as she was ordered held without bail Tuesday — with a Manhattan judge ruling the accused sex abuser “poses substantial actual risk of flight” after she purposely hid from authorities. The 58-year-old British socialite and pal of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein wiped tears from her left eye several times, using the …

Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she helped traffic young women for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse — as her trial date was set for next year. Maxwell appeared via video conference for her arraignment on a six-count indictment charging her with recruiting and grooming young women to be molested by Epstein. Prosecutors …

Amber Heard’s former stylist told a UK court Tuesday that she saw no “visible marks” on the star’s face on the days when she was photographed seemingly with bruises and black eyes. Samantha McMillen said she spent “much of the afternoon and early evening” with Heard to help her prep for a December 2015 appearance …

The Supreme Court ruled early Tuesday morning that the Justice Department can resume its first federal executions in 17 years this week, hours after a D.C. judge issued an order temporarily halting the lethal injections. The unsigned, 5-4 opinion issued around 2 a.m. will allow four scheduled federal executions to proceed as planned and came …

An unhinged Amber Heard screamed at Johnny Depp that he was “fat” and “washed up” when she attacked him on his private island, a UK court was told Tuesday. Tara Roberts, the estate manager of Depp’s Little Hall Pond’s Cay in the Bahamas, called the actor an “unusually kind man” who became “withdrawn” during his …