If the legal battle between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard ended on June 1, nearly 6,000 unpublished documents, unveiled on the weekend of July 30, could well reshuffle the cards during a possible second trial.
These new sheets contain elements never before presented to the public, such as the disturbing SMS exchanged between Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp, or the statements of certain witnesses, not used during the trial.
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Among them, part of the testimony of Ellen Barkin, collected in 2019, revealed by
Enternainment Tonight
this Tuesday, August 3.
The 68-year-old actress, who had a brief relationship with the comedian in 1994, was one of the witnesses called during the trial.
Yet several elements of his initial narrative appear to have been squeezed out.
Three years ago, the star of the
Animal Kingdom series,
notably portrayed to investigators a “jealous” and “dominant” man, surrounded by “a world of violence”.
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Quaalude and alcohol
She also returned to her first time with the actor.
"He came up to me in the living room of my house, pulled me into his lap and said something like, 'Oh, come on Ellen.
I protested a bit and then – not too much,” she said.
And to add: “It was like that.”
Asked by the police how she had "protested", the one who shot with Johnny Depp in the film
Las Vegas Parano
(1998), explained: "He gave me Quaalude then asked me if I wanted kiss".
Quaalude (or methaqualone) is a sedative with effects similar to GHB, very popular in the 1970s - Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski were notably accused of having given it to certain women to abuse them.
At the bar of the court in Fairfax (Virginia), last May, the actress made no mention of this story, but only mentioned a loving Johnny Depp in the beginning of their relationship, then “drunk all the time”.
“He was verbally abusive.
There were a lot of screams,” she regretted.
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“Amber 2.0”
Among the other sordid revelations from these approximately 6,000 secret documents, the disturbing text messages between Johnny Depp and his longtime friend Marilyn Manson.
In a 2016 text message, the musician and godfather of Lily-Rose Depp, reportedly wrote, "I invited an Amber 2.0 to my house."
Or again: “I lived through an Amber-type scenario with the police, because of L's family. I'm stressed.
I don't know if you're back, but I need someone to meet me somewhere because I think the cops might come and see me."
The comedian's team would also have tried to stifle the messages written by Johnny Depp to his relatives, in which he speaks of drowning and burning Amber Heard.
In addition, the new details of the case reveal that the latter, initially inclined to find an agreement, had offered his ex-wife nearly 16 million dollars (15 million euros), before the start of the trial. .
An offer that Amber Heard would have rejected, justifying that she was “not doing this for the money”.