Newly unsealed pre-trial documents from the Depp v. Heard defamation case showJohnny Depp’s lawyers attempting to bring up ex-wifeAmber Heard’s previous job as an exotic dancer in court — as her team claimed his team was “maliciously” suggesting Heard had been an escort.
Over the weekend, thousands of pages of filings from months of proceedings became unsealed, showing what attorneys on both sides of the trial wanted excluded from being presented to the jury.
According toThe Daily Beastand theNew York Post, the court documents detailed one instance that involved Depp’s team trying to submit “nude pictures” of Heard and evidence of “Amber’s brief stint as an exotic dancer years before she met Mr. Depp” to, as her team said, “frivolously and maliciously suggest or imply that Ms. Heard was at one time an escort.” (She met Depp while making their 2011 filmThe Rum Diary.)
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Heard’s lawyers said in their March filing that it was inappropriate to bring up the “irrelevant personal matters” during the trial, which was live-streamed and televised.
Reps for Depp and Heard did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
Last month, Judge Penney Azcaratedenied Heard’s request for a mistrial. The actress, 36, has sincebegun the appeal processon the verdict. “While we realize today’s filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice,” a spokesperson for Heard said about appealing, adding they “believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment.”
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When theyspoke out about the outcomeof their contentious trial on June 1, Depp said he felt like the jury “gave me my life back,” while Heard said the verdict would be a “setback” for women who speak out.
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“The best is yet to come and a new chapter has finally begun,” Depp added. Heard, meanwhile said, “I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband.”
In an NBC News sit-down interview withSavannah Guthrie, Heard saidshe doesn’t blame the jury for siding withher “beloved"Pirates of the Caribbeanactor ex-husband. “How could they make a judgement, how could they not come to that conclusion,” she said. “They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of nonstop relentless testimony from paid employees and, towards the end of the trial, randos — as I say. … How could they, after listening to three and a half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person, not to believe a word that came out of my mouth.”
source: people.com
