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Simply while you thought the drama surrounding the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation case had come to an finish, right here come 6,000 pages of newly-unsealed courtroom paperwork to dominate your newsfeed!
The docs are positive to re-ignite the already-intense debate over the trial and Depp’s $10.35 million victory over his ex-wife.
Among the many revelations contained within the previously-undisclosed filings is the information that Depp’s group tried to introduce nude photographs of Heard into proof.
“Mr. Depp inappropriately seeks to introduce proof of the next Irrelevant Private Issues,” a doc filed by Heard’s attorneys begins:
“(1) nude footage of Amber Heard; (2) Amber Heard’s sister Whitney’s actuality present video; (3) Whitney and Amber’s previous romantic relationships;
“(4) Amber’s transient stint as an unique dancer years earlier than she met Mr. Depp and Mr. Depp trying to frivolously and maliciously recommend or suggest that Ms. Heard was at one time an escort.”
The technique of shaming Amber for her work as an unique dancer most likely would have backfired on Workforce Depp, so the decide might need completed the actor a favor by refusing to permit it.
Additionally helpful for Depp was the decide’s choice to exclude textual content messages to Heard from Depp’s assistant, Stephen Deuters.
“If somebody was actually trustworthy with him about how unhealthy it actually was, he could be appalled,” Deuters texted Heard about after an incident through which Depp allegedly kicked her throughout a flight on a non-public jet.
“I’m unhappy he doesn’t have a greater option to actually know the severity of his actions yesterday. Sadly for me, I keep in mind them in full, in full element, every thing that occurred,” the assistant continued.
“He was appalled, once I informed him he kicked you, he cried.”
“As soon as once more, I discover myself in a spot of disgrace and remorse. In fact I’m sorry…I’ll by no means do it once more…My sickness someway crept up and grabbed me…I really feel so unhealthy for letting you down,” Depp later texted Heard.
One other shocking revelation was the information that Heard’s attorneys begged her to rethink her choice to stroll away from “tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” throughout her divorce from Depp.
Plainly Depp shot the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film throughout their marriage, that means that the cash he earned — a cool $33 million — was thought-about a “group property asset.”
In an e mail to their consumer, Heard’s attorneys wrote that she was being “amazingly true to your phrase, that this isn’t in regards to the cash.”
These exchanges had been additionally rejected as proof, because the decide refused to permit the inclusion of any documentation concerning Depp and Heard’s divorce, deeming it irrelevant to the defamation case.
Depp’s attorneys additionally requested that the decide exclude any “references to and proof concerning Marilyn Manson” as a result of they argued it might “smear Mr. Depp beneath a responsible by affiliation concept.”
Manson has confronted abuse allegations from actress Evan Rachel Wooden, in addition to a number of different exes.
Depp’s group additionally requested the decide to exclude Heard’s claims that the actor suffers from erectile dysfunction.
Attorneys for claimed that the allegation was related to Mr. Depp’s use of a bottle to “sexually assault Heard, which was one of many allegations within the trial.
They wrote that the situation “may someway be a motivation for abuse.”
In the long run, that particular allegation was not allowed, however Heard did declare on the stand that Depp sexually assaulted her with a glass bottle.
In the long run, after all, Depp gained the case and was awarded an eight-figure settlement.
However it stays to be seen if Hollywood will deem the actor unemployable following spherical after spherical of stunning allegations.
