Elon Musk, billionaire and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has spoken out on the bitter dispute involving his ex-girlfriend, Amber Heard, and actor Johnny Depp, advising the two to just let bygones be bygones.
“I hope they both move on. At their best, they are each incredible,” Musk tweeted on Saturday in response to a post by podcast host Lex Fridman referring to the Depp vs. Heard court case.
At one point, Musk himself dated Heard, with Depp claiming in his lawsuit that the actress and the entrepreneur had begun their liaison behind his back a mere month after Depp and Heard married.
A spokesperson for Musk, however, denied the allegations, insisting that “Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent.” According to the billionaire’s representative the relationship between the two “didn’t become romantic until some time later.”
The billionaire had been listed as a potential witness for Heard in the trial, but has apparently been removed from it by now.Depp and Heard, who started dating in 2011, walked down the aisle in February 2015.
However, 15 months later, Heard filed for divorce, accusing her husband of having physically abused her. At the time, a court issued a temporary restraining order against the Oscar-nominated actor.
Depp, for his part, strongly denied the use of physical violence against his wife, accusing Heard of having an ulterior motive, that is, “to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse.”
The divorce proceedings were finalized in 2017 but later the two engaged in a bitter courtroom showdown.