Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have starred in the trial of the year starting April 11 and they’re not the only celebrities involved: actor James Franco and the tycoon Elon Musk was called to testify.

Depp and Heard were married from 2012 to 2016 (in the middle they got married), they quarreled badly, he soon denounced it for physical and verbal abuse and in 2018 he proved it again ito. He denied it, charged him with libel of $ 50 million, and in response, he responded with $ 100.

Since the first days of the month – not to mention all that has been said in recent years – the information has not stopped publicizing referring to the toxicity of the relationship maintained by the artists. And it will continue like this for a few weeks.

video compromise

In 2019, The Blast media released a video in which Heard can be seen riding an elevator with someone who looks like James Franco.. And Depp’s lawyers are wary: if they confirm that Heard committed adultery, they can try to dismiss the counterclaim, just as they would if they could prove through Franco that Heard was not hurt.

The latter has to do with the fact that Franco and Heard’s meeting in the elevator happened a day after the violent fight that would end in Heard and Depp’s wedding and, according to the actress, in his brutal attack on the actor.

In the clip you can see how Heard takes the elevator, gets off the parking lot of his building in Los Angeles and lets a man (this is Franco) in to go with him. Because they knew there was a camera recording them, the two positioned each other and hid. The timestamp can be seen in the video that it was taken on May 22, 2016, around 11 p.m.

Depp’s defense believes that the one in the elevator was Franco, among other things, because the actor was wearing a cap from The Ace Hotel and a shirt similar to the one he wore at the same time at a commercial event.

As with every test statement, along with it there are also versions found.

the two voices

Depp’s legal team called Franco a “witness” and plans to question him on a civil subpoena and under penalty of perjury about what Heard may have said about the incident.

He also brought Musk into battle: Making sure the Tesla creator had a sentimental approach to Heard while she was married to Depp. In this case, it is worth remembering that Musk and Heard will get married after he divorced the actor.

“We are interested in James Franco and Elon Musk as witnesses because we have evidence that they were men who saw Amber Heard’s face in the days and nights between her claim that Mr. Depp punched her in the face when May 21 and when he went to court with painted ‘bruises’ to get a temporary restraining order on May 27, “said one of Depp’s lawyers at the time, adam waldmanin The Blast.

On Heard’s side, the actress’ lawyers claimed Franco lived in the same building as Amber and Johnny and downplayed the meeting, considering it was casual.

“This false story is just a regrettable attempt by Johnny Depp and his team to spread deliberately misleading information through the media so that he continues to attack and abuse his ex -wife,” Heard’s lawyer explained, Eric Georgein The Blast.

Depp’s lawyer disagreed with George’s position, arguing that “surveillance footage and sworn witnesses put Mr Musk and Mr Franco separately secretly entering Johnny Depp’s penthouse in the nights after the claim. of the blow to the face of Amber Heard from May 21. “

“We now have the group of Ms. Heard that Mr. Franco the man embraced a perfect face, wearing a nightgown Ms. Heard and hid from the elevator surveillance camera at 11:00 pm The lies They produce lies. The amusing reason of Ms. Heard for the presence of Mr. Franco in the elevator to Mr. Franco’s penthouse. Depp said it was a chance encounter because James Franco had ‘lived in the building,’ the actor’s lawyer added.