Barely his trial against Amber Heard won, Johnny Depp is about to embark on a new legal battle.
The actor is indeed accused of hitting Gregg Brooks, the manager of the
City of Lies film crew,
TMZ
revealed
in July 2018 – when the manager filed a complaint.
The two men will face each other in court on July 25.
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"I'll give you $100,000 if you hit me"
According to legal documents seen by the tabloid, the filming manager was hired in 2017, when the feature film crew was filming a scene in Los Angeles.
At the time, the catches of Johnny Depp would have been chained, without giving satisfaction to the director Brad Furman.
Gregg Brooks would then have informed the filmmaker's assistant that the filming authorization was about to expire, and that they could only shoot one additional take.
Which would have provoked the ire of Johnny Depp.
The manager, worried about the "instability" of the actor, would have tried to contact a police officer.
But Johnny Depp allegedly assaulted him before he got there.
The actor would then have launched: “Who do you think you are, the fuck?
You have no right to tell me what to do."
According to Gregg Brooks, he then struck him twice in the rib cage, without getting a reaction from the filming manager.
"I'll give you $100,000 to punch me in the face," Johnny Depp allegedly said.
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"Self-defense"?
The latter would have continued to invective the employee, before being evacuated by his bodyguards.
An incident during which Johnny Depp's breath "stank of alcohol," said Gregg Brooks in his testimony.
The employee also denounced “the emotional distress” that the actor would have “inflicted” on him, revealed
Page Six
.
For his part, Johnny Depp considered that Gregg Brooks had "caused" the acts which had caused his injuries, and that these were only the fruit of his "self-defense".
In 2018, other members of the team further claimed that the confrontation had only been verbal.
A trial not broadcast on television
Asked by the
Sun
, Pat Harris, Gregg Brooks' lawyer, argued in early June that the verdict of the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had "no relation" to this future legal battle.
"Brooks' case has nothing to do with the trial of two Hollywood celebrities involved in a toxic relationship," she said.
This is the attack on a member of the film crew by the star of the film.
If the actor will again be defended by his lawyer Camille Vasquez, this new trial will not be broadcast on television, unlike that of Amber Heard.
The request made by the
Law & Crime
channel was indeed denied,
Newsweek
revealed .
The amount of damages requested by Gregg Brooks has not yet been disclosed.
