Johnny Depp avoided going to trial for beating up an employee during a shoot in 2017. Photo REUTERS / Evelyn Hockstein
After a filming employee accused Johnny Depp of doing it attacked After obstructing the recording of a scene for lack of permits, the actor reached a deal on Monday to avoid a trial scheduled for July 25 in Los Angeles, United States.
In particular, the complaint was lodged by Greg Brooksa location manager who worked on the shooting of the film “City of lies“As he claimed, he was assaulted on April 13, 2017 by Depp, who reacted violently when Brooks warned him that he had only one last shot left in a particular location, as they were not allowed to stay longer.
According to his version, the Hollywood star got angry and started shouting phrases like “Who are you? You have no right to tell me what to do”. Immediately, Brooks spoke to a LAPD officer and this made Depp even angrier, which allegedly hit Brooks in the ribs and that he had to be separated from his own bodyguards so that the violence did not escalate.
Johnny Depp stars in HBO’s City of Lies.
The location manager apparently involved he was fired a week laterafter refusing to sign a document assuring that he would not report Depp for the incident.
Johnny Depp’s lawyers have called for the dismissal of the court warrant requested by Amber Heard
On the same Monday, Depp’s lawyers took the opportunity to raise a request to reject the Amber Heard team’s request to cancel her recent libel trial, due to an error in the selection of one of the members of the popular jury.
According to Heard’s defense, one of the members of that jury, and who therefore participated in the sentence, was born in 1970. However, the file with the data of the person originally cited had the same name, but he was born in 1945.
Amber Heard demands that Johnny Depp’s libel trial be canceled for a mistake with one of the jury members. AP Photo / Jim Lo Scalzo.
Apparently, the individual who witnessed the trial was the child of the person named first.
The ruling of that media trial, handed down unanimously by the jury on June 1, claims that three sentences written by Heard in an opinion piece published in 2018 by The Washington Post newspaper defamed Depp, although the actor also defamed Depp in one. occasion his ex-wife.
Thus, the jury held the two Hollywood stars responsible defamationeven though he forced Heard to pay $ 10.3 million in compensation to Depp and the actor only imposed a $ 2 million payment.
With information from EFE.
Source: Clarin
