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Attorney becomes a TikTok celebrity as video of her viper-quick objections scores millions of views
Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard for defaming him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard suggests the actor was seriously abusive toward her – an allegation Depp contends torpedoed his career. But with a week to go in the much-watched dispute another star has emerged in Camille Vasquez, the Depp legal team’s ace in the hole.
The hashtag #camillevasquez has more than 980 million TikTok impressions. One video of her viper-quick objections to Heard’s lead attorney Elaine Bredehoft had almost 30 million views. The two-minute TikTok video of her courtroom interruptions captioned – “where did this woman get her degree?” – coincided with a 1,820% uptick in Google searches for Southwestern Law School, Vasquez’s alma mater, research by higher education website Erudera shows. (Searches for USC, Vasquez’s undergrad college, are up 127%.) Another TikTok compares Vasquez to Rachel Zane, the legal eagle Meghan Markle played on Suits.
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