Marilyn Manson Texts, Salacious Images And Different Materials That The Jury Didn’t See Or Hear – Deadline

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial captivated viewers with a peek into the stormy marriage of two film stars however, imagine it or not, the proceedings might have been much more sensational.

The unsealing of a trove of 6,000 pages of paperwork has proven how each side bitterly fought in the course of the discovery stage of the trial over what may very well be admitted and what couldn’t. Issues have been so acrimonious between the events that there was even an extended change between the attorneys over Covid security precautions to be taken throughout Heard’s deposition.

From Heard’s standpoint, Decide Penney Azcarate ended up excluding an excessive amount of from the jury’s eyes and ears. After the jury awarded Depp $10.4 million in damages, her lawyer Elaine Bredehoft appeared on Right this moment and complained that the panel didn’t hear different proof within the case that was allowed in Depp’s UK trial, the place he misplaced his case in opposition to The Solar for a narrative that recognized him as a “spouse beater.” “We had an infinite quantity of proof that was suppressed on this case that was within the UK case,” Bredehoft stated.

Heard gained a $2 million judgment in opposition to Depp, and each side are interesting their respective verdicts.

Neither the Depp or Heard camps responded to request for touch upon the mass unsealing when contacted at the moment by Deadline. 

Among the many particulars within the unsealed paperwork:

Metadata. Whereas a Depp crew witness advised at trial that Heard’s photographs of her accidents could have been edited, in step with the inference that they have been doctored, Heard’s crew additionally made the same inference about photographs submitted by Depp.Forsensic knowledgeable Julian Ackert cited “anomalies that decision into query the authenticity of the paperwork.” Particularly, Heard’s crew referred to the “restricted metadata reveals the ‘Creation,’ ‘Modified,’ “Acquired,’ and “Despatched’ Dates are July 22, 2019, regardless of Mr. Depp claiming this image was taken in March 2015.” Depp’s crew known as the claims “irrelevant” and missing in basis. The decide denied the Heard crew’s motions to pursue the matter additional.

Salacious photographs. Heard’s crew claimed that Depp’s attorneys sought to introduce “irrelevant private issues” equivalent to nude photographs of Heard and “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.” They contended that the allegations she was an escort have been “unfounded, incendiary, irrelevant, and designed to harass and demean Amber Heard.” Depp’s crew wrote in March that they didn’t anticipate introducing such proof, however that it was “attainable to check a situation through which such pictures would possibly grow to be very related within the context of this case, for example to point out a scarcity of seen accidents.” In addition they referred to proof of Heard’s stint as a stripper “or rumors that she was an escort early in her profession.

“Nonetheless, Mr. Depp reserves the best to make use of such supplies to the extent that they grow to be essential on rebuttal, and in any occasion, trial is a fluid course of, and these points are all doubtlessly related and needs to be reserved for ultimate determination at trial.”

They have been saved out of the trial.

Marilyn Manson texts. Depp’s friendship with Marilyn Manson was cited in the course of the trial, however his attorneys frightened about “guilt by affiliation.” In accordance with the New York Submit, the unsealed information present that Manson texted Depp in 2016 that he was in an ”amber 2.0” state of affairs. Depp texted again, “I been studying A LOT of fabric on that and sociopathic conduct…it’s f—ing actual my brother!! My ex c— is goddam TEXTBOOK!!!” “Ms. Heard’s try to smear Mr. Depp with an affiliation with Mr. Manson is extra prejudicial than it’s probative,” Depp’s attorneys argued. The texts have been withheld from the trial. Manson is engaged in his personal defamation lawsuit, having sued ex fiancé Evan Rachel Wooden and others over her abuse claims. 

Depp’s medical historical past. The actor’s crew acknowledged his historical past of substance abuse, however there have been different a part of his medical historical past that they sought to exclude. They argued that his medical situation was “marginal or no probative worth.” An instance: proof that Depp took Valtrex, Nexium and Cialis.

If Heard gained. At a November, 2020 deposition, Depp was requested by Heard’s lawyer whether or not how he would react if the jury dominated in favor of his ex-wife and whether or not he would merely deem it the “opinion of seven individuals.”

“No, I’m not going to say that’s the opinion of seven individuals. Hear, it may be the opinion of 1 man, it may be the opinion of 200 individuals, it may be the opinion of a thousand individuals, and so they might imagine that I did do these issues, which I didn’t participate in any of what Ms. Heard accuses me of. It’s outright fiction, subsequently I can solely hope that folks will hear the reality and perceive it to be the reality, however I don’t suppose that the — the younger troopers who have been storming the seashores of Normandy — I don’t suppose they have been saying hey, let’s have pizza tonight. I feel that they knew what they’d gone into.”

“So what I’m saying is that if — if this does come out, the choice on this specific case comes out in … Ms. Heard’s favor, then that’s what will occur, however that’s not going to make me go oh, my God, I will need to have carried out it.”