Regardless of reaching a verdict in June, extra particulars concerning the defamation trial between celeb ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have come to mild within the type of unsealed court docket paperwork.
On July 13, greater than 6,000 pages of authorized filings from the case have been unsealed. The Each day Beast, which first reported concerning the paperwork this weekend, mentioned the data shed new mild on the obvious methods of each the Depp and Heard authorized groups.
A lot of the brand new data didn’t bode properly for Depp, who obtained overwhelming help in the course of the precise six-week trial in Fairfax County, Va.
A number of purported copies of the unsealed court docket paperwork have been shared on-line, together with by YouTuber and authorized commentator Andrea Burkhart, who shared the recordsdata to her web site. Burkhart accepted donations from viewers to pay the over US$3,300 charge to obtain the paperwork.
The brand new data alleges that Depp’s authorized crew tried to submit a number of gadgets as proof that by no means made it into the trial, together with nude images of Heard. Within the unsealed paperwork, Heard’s legal professionals make the argument for the nude photos to be excluded, calling the proposed submission of proof “irrelevant private issues.”
Neither Depp nor Heard has commented publicly on the unsealed court docket paperwork.
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Heard’s legal professionals additionally fought to take away Depp’s tried point out of the Aquaman actor’s time allegedly working as an unique dancer, claiming the data was solely provided as a way to “maliciously counsel or suggest that Ms. Heard was at one time an escort.”
Throughout a deposition, Depp’s authorized crew additionally questioned Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, about an alleged rushing ticket and suspended licence obtained by Heard when she was a young person.
Based on the court docket paperwork, they requested Henriquez if the loss of life of Heard’s pal Logan (who died throughout a automotive accident as a young person) had something to do with Heard’s suspended licence. Henriquez reportedly instructed Depp’s lawyer’s the licence suspension had “nothing to do with that.”
Textual content messages from Depp and his associates have been talked about within the unsealed court docket paperwork, however not learn aloud in court docket, together with texts about an alleged incident the place Heard claimed Depp kicked her on a flight in 2014.
One textual content apparently from Depp to Heard learn: “As soon as once more, I discover myself in a spot of disgrace and remorse. After all I’m sorry…I’ll by no means do it once more…My sickness in some way crept up and grabbed me…I really feel so unhealthy for letting you down.”
Nonetheless, data of those texts (which have been offered within the U.Ok. trial Depp misplaced in 2020) couldn’t be discovered within the star’s iCloud, and in accordance with Depp’s authorized crew, could have been “deleted.”
The court docket paperwork additionally alleged that Heard turned down “tens of tens of millions” of {dollars} in a divorce settlement from Depp.
Heard’s legal professionals, by way of the unsealed court docket paperwork, claimed Depp and his authorized counsel edited photograph and audio proof submitted within the trial. They claimed that evaluation of the metadata related to photograph and video recording “reveals the gadgets have been ‘Modified’ days earlier than their manufacturing on this case.”
Amongst a number of different claims, Depp’s legal professionals fought to take away all point out of the actor’s friendship with controversial musician Marilyn Manson (who was talked about in the course of the trial), and that Depp’s former lawyer Adam Waldman had “Russian connections” (which weren’t talked about in court docket).
There have been, in fact, additionally motions by Heard’s legal professionals that had been denied and have been subsequently inadmissible in court docket, together with a declare that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor suffers from erectile dysfunction.
Web page Six reported the court docket paperwork confirmed that Heard’s legal professionals argued that although Depp would “relatively not disclose his erectile dysfunction situation, such situation completely is related to sexual violence, together with Mr. Depp’s anger and use of a bottle to rape Amber Heard.”
In July, Heard introduced she can be interesting the decision from the defamation trial.
The Virginia court docket ordered Heard to pay Depp US$10.35 million for defaming the actor in a Washington Publish article, penned by Heard after their divorce. She received a smaller $2-million judgement on a counterclaim in opposition to Depp.
This weekend, a number of hashtags appeared on social media because of the unsealed court docket paperwork, together with #AmberHeardDeservesAnApology. Discourse on-line nonetheless seems to stay overwhelmingly in favour of Depp, even inside hashtags calling for Heard’s home violence claims to be believed.
Even so, there could also be a slight shift to pro-Heard sentiment on-line — a lot of which was sparked by Burkhart and her YouTube following, post-analysis of the unsealed paperwork.
In July, Depp settled a separate lawsuit during which he was accused of punching a crewmember on the set of the film Metropolis of Lies in 2017. The phrases of the settlement will not be identified publicly.
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