Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to his ex-wife, Amber Heard, might have come to an in depth, however the stunning claims and accusations the previous lovers levelled in opposition to each other didn’t all make it into the trial. Now, pre-trial court docket docs that had been not too long ago unsealed reveal Depp’s workforce tried to submit nude photographs of Heard into proof, Heard’s workforce tried to recommend Depp was taking erectile dysfunction remedy and that there have been supposedly damning texts that weren’t allowed to be submitted for the trial.
The defamation lawsuit lasted weeks, included numerous hours of depositions, stay testimony and dominated the media highlight. Regardless of the verdict falling primarily in Depp’s favour and makes an attempt to get the case thrown out and retried by Heard’s attorneys, it felt that, in any case that point, the world had gotten all there was to know aired out in court docket.
As revealed in 6,000 pages of pre-trail court docket paperwork that had been unsealed this weekend, there was numerous data and particulars that either side tried to submit into proof that didn’t get accredited or was deemed inadmissible by the choose. Among the docs pertain to alleged proof that each Heard and Depp’s attorneys made efforts for the jury to judge, however had been rejected.
In response to the copious docs, Heard’s workforce claims that there was inconsistent metadata from the quite a few pictures and recordings submitted by Depp’s attorneys relating to the accidents he claimed he sustained and the verbal abuse submitted as proof.
Basically, Heard’s workforce claimed that the video, audio and photographic proof submitted by Depp’s workforce may presumably have been manipulated. Heard’s workforce submitted a number of motions requesting the unique paperwork, however the motions had been denied. They even went as far as to rent a forensic skilled who testified that he’d regarded on the metadata and found “anomalies that decision into query the authenticity of the multimedia paperwork.” His testimony was finally not allowed into proof on the trial.
Depp’s workforce additionally argued in opposition to efforts made by Heard’s attorneys to submit parts of his medical data as proof. Docs filed by Depp’s attorneys claimed Heard “needs a circus, and clearly intends to take this trial down quite a lot of unnecessarily salacious rabbit holes, together with and particularly with respect to Mr. Depp’s medical historical past.”
In response to the docs, Heard submitted a drugs record into proof that included “Nexium, Cialis and Valtrex,” and Depp’s attorneys state that Heard claimed Depp suffered from “erectile dysfunction” and that she “steered that that may by some means be a motivation for abuse.” Nonetheless, Depp’s attorneys declare that Heard was solely attempting to submit this proof to embarrass him in court docket.
In the meantime, paperwork filed by Heard’s attorneys declare that Depp tried to submit nude photographs of the actress into proof.
“Mr. Depp inappropriately seeks to introduce proof of the next Irrelevant Private Issues,” Heard’s attorneys said in a movement, itemizing “nude footage of Amber Heard,” and “Amber’s temporary stint as an unique dancer years earlier than she met Mr. Depp” as examples. In addition they claimed that Depp was “making an attempt to frivolously and maliciously recommend or suggest that Ms. Heard was at one time an escort.”
Amid much more vulgar and threatening texts that weren’t allowed into proof — versus the numerous stunning texts Depp despatched folks relating to Heard that had been admitted — attorneys for the actor particularly tried to exclude textual content exchanges between himself and Marilyn Mason, arguing that they may “smear Mr. Depp underneath a responsible by affiliation idea” — as a result of a number of controversies and allegations surrounding Manson.
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