Here are some photos of Amber Heard on Saturday, making her way into her deposition with Johnny Depp’s lawyers. Amber was actually really late to the deposition, at least according to TMZ. Johnny Depp’s lawyers arrived at 9:40 am (PST) for a 10 am deposition, but first Amber’s lawyer was 15 minutes late, then Amber was more than an hour late. I kind of wonder if that was some sort of power play by Amber and her lawyers, but I also wonder if Amber is just doing poorly overall. TMZ made a big deal about how Depp’s lawyers could have asked for a “contempt citation” since Amber was so late. Here’s what went down:
Amber Heard showed up 1 1/2 hours late for her deposition … where she’ll be in a face-off with Johnny Depp’s lawyers over her divorce/domestic violence case. Amber and her lawyer Samantha Spector showed up Saturday morning at the law offices of disso-queen Laura Wasser’s firm, Wasser, Cooperman and Mandles, the firm that’s repping Johnny in the divorce. Her client wasn’t with her and finally, at around 11:30 AM Amber drove up to the front of the building but didn’t want to be filmed so she found a more private entrance.
Our sources say both sides tried hammering out a settlement Friday night but negotiations fell apart at around 9 PM.
As TMZ reported, the depo should last all day and the lawyer doing the questioning — Blair Berk will almost certainly be interested in Amber’s domestic violence claims. Berk will pepper Amber with questions over the fact the police officers who responded to the downtown L.A. loft saw no evidence of physical injury and no damage inside the unit. The deposition will also cover amber’s demand for money in the divorce. The marriage lasted only 15 months.
The lawyer “will almost certainly be interested in Amber’s domestic violence claims.” You don’t say. Thankfully, TMZ has been pretty silent since the deposition went down, so Depp’s team hasn’t leaked anything… yet. I’m expecting lots of leaks from both teams this week, because they’re due in court on August 15th (a week from Monday), so… just keep your eyes open for lots of “leaks,” I guess.
Speaking of, late last week, People Magazine actually did a story about how hard all of this has been on Depp, because he’s the biggest victim here, right? An unnamed source told People: “He feels stressed about all the Amber drama. He never anticipated getting a divorce. He just wants it all to be over and move on. It’s a very sad situation for him.” If he wants to be over, surely he should just give Amber what she wants so everyone can move on? That’s my pro-tip!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Well, that’s not a good start.
…as in, maybe Elon’s car wouldn’t start? 🙂
Ha!!
This ^^^^^^ 😁.
Never been a fan of his but I can’t stand her. Strikes me as someone that’s always been after nothing else but fame and money.
Not sure how you go from an abusive relationship to another one where the guy has actually told women that he “is the alpha” of the two of you. I know Musk is a billionaire, but someone should be pointing out to Amber that she’s just repeating a pattern of being with dominating men
She has the right to be in for fame and money. If the men know what she wants out of them and their success and they freely give it to the fame seeking woman, their adult choices. Its not like she walking out of not giving anything either, they seek out her beauty and youth and she gives it to them.
So basically you’re saying that Amber was a prostitute?
Pura, no, but I don’t think Depp really dated someone young enough to be his daughter for her stunning personality and intelligence.
“Our sources say both sides tried hammering out a settlement Friday night but negotiations fell apart at around 9 PM.” I’m getting the feeling that both sides are doing everything they can to prolong it. I’m not on any side of this. They’re both assholes, in my humble opinion.
Mona, be that as it may, every single person we read about here on this celebrity gossip blog is after fame and money. If they weren’t, we wouldn’t have heard about them. So of course she’s after fame and money, as is Johnny Depp, as is Kate Hudson, Tom Hiddleston, etc etc. All of them. It’s not a valid reason to dislike her.
Not a great beginning, and not one I was expecting to hear. Wouldn’t she want to do everything “by the book” instead of looking like a time-waster for the case? And Depp would have gotten skewered if he had done this; his people were on time.
At least she knows how to dress for court. I still remember when LiLo would turn up two hours late for court looking like a total train wreck.
What a huge sense of entitlement these people have. I hate being late for anything or anybody, it is so disrespectful.
I wonder who or what gave her the bruise on her wrist that she seems to be covering up? Also since she and Musk were seen leaving the Suicide Squad after party at the The Box in London a few days ago that things must be more than friendly like they denied. Because why else would Elon be at a party for a film he has no connection to other then the fact that Heard is a part of the DC movie verse.
I wonder why she was late? Because it doesn’t come off as a power play especially when she was told she must arrive for this depo after she tried to get the second schedule date of August postponed like she did with the original July dates. She did something similar with the Australian case where the dates for the court hearing were constantly pushed back because she keep coming up with reasons why she couldn’t show up.
Honestly this just looks bad and like she has no respect for the legal system or authority. How hard is it to be on time for something she put into motion.
She’s been connected to Elon Musk? I had no idea. I find him strangely attractive…but he sounds like a massive handful.
And yeah being late is not a good start for something so high stakes.
Regarding her and Musk (cause something is definitely going on between them) it strikes me as kinda weird. I know every woman reacts and feels different but isn’t it strange that she started dating so quick? And on top of that it has been reported that he’s a dominant man who has abused his women emotionally. I’ve known few people who have been abused, not even as brutally as Heard claims, and it took them many months or even years to trust again and start a relationship. I remember reading an article on E news coming from her camp and it claimed that she considers her relationship with Johnny her most serious one and a “love that she has never experienced before”. So how can she move on just weeks after claiming to be deeply traumatized by the man she was still deeply in love with even after the May incident? She may have a very strong character but if that was the case, wouldn’t she have left earlier? I don’t know it just suddened me that she started seeing another man within weeks. And the fact that he’s a billionaire fuels the opinion that she’s only after money. Of course she has every right to move on but to me her new relationship raises many questions. Just my two cents.
Ruth, all good points. Maybe they really are just longtime friends as has been asserted and she’s leaning on him. But it does seem kinda suspect and, I agree, kinda sad if they are in fact dating.
Some people are relationship people. Ie can’t be alone or spend more than a month out of one relationship before starting another. Doesn’t matter how traumatised they are by individual relationships.
Elon has been rumored to be emotionally abusive and obsessive. He is obsessed with very thin blonds and look at all his exes turned out, very thin and blond. Even though they were original a health size and brunette. That does sets off huge alarm bells.
The mark concerns me as well. As the victim of eczema, which flares up during stress, it could be that it is not a bruise at all. The extreme degree of redness looks more like either a burn or a skin reaction like eczema. In either case, I hope she is not again a victim of domestic abuse with whomever she is seeing. She is very fragile right now, and really shouldn’t be involved with anyone.
I was wondering if she had a tattoo removed.
A lot of people, myself included, break out in hives when they’re stressed out, anxious or nervous. That’s what it looks like to me.
Lol I commented too quickly. Yeah, I hear that they are test dating.
Ha!!
Ps: i read a really good article at Vanity Fair online about Elon, siblings, cousins which made him seem very attractive. Billionaire or not, any one from a family like that is so, SO attractive.
Of course there is the issue of his being emotionally abusive, which puts a brake on my budding Musk / Rives family crush
Anyhue, here is article…
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/elon-musk-family-maye-musk
LAK, great article, thanks for sharing. Cool family for sure, I love the energy and ambition. Although it sounds like there were red flags regarding Elon’s behavior early, with his mom calling him the difficult child and mentioning that he had no friends. Still, I am still strangely attracted to him.
ooh great article, thanks for letting us know about it, LAK!
Every time I see Elon, I somehow think of the large socially awkward nerdish man in Legally Blonde, the one she slaps to help him impress two mean girls!
Good lord… Are you two ladies experts on domestic abuse now? The conspiracy theories here are so irritating. IF she is dating someone else that has no bearing at all on her previous relationship and any abuse she may have suffered. People respond differently to trauma. People do not always react like you think they should. Unlikable people can be victims too. Victims often get cold feet for court dates: court can be extremely traumatic.
Nice try Jinni But according to every Webloid article written about Elon and Amber they are just friends! Even E!,TMZ,And page six reported that. And Elon is actually a big comic book fan so I think he
Just tagged along to hang out on a comic book movie set with his friend who is a superhero in the movie. They’ve known each other for years and are both going through divorces at the same time. Nothing wrong with having friends support you through hard times. Doesn’t mean they’re dating. Some people are so desperate to use this as proof that she moves on fast or is a golddigger when there’s no proof of them even being together anyway.
That’s not looking good at all on her part.She was the one who asked for a Saturday depo after all.It makes her look very entitled since it also was the judge who ordered it. No matter what went on in the relationship that was a dumb move, making everyone wait. Highly unprofessional. Depp would have gotten highly criticized if he did the same so it’s only fair to side eye her for that delay. Unless, of course there is a good reason for it.Im actually surprised we haven’t gotten an update about what went on during the depo though. It’s gonna be am interesting week.
I think Depp’s lawyers didn’t really have a problem with working on a Saturday. I think they wanted the judge to order the time and data, so there couldn’t be anymore last minute cancellations. I think Amber being late looks bad, but it is worse still that her lawyers were late. Maybe they are doing a a Columbo and hiding their genius behind a bumbling exterior, but that is a top team they are up against and they are not going to be thrown by gamesmanship.
Unless there is a legit reason such as, car broke down, freeway was shut down, etc., all it looks like is disrespect for the system, not a “power play.” Her lawyer shouldn’t have been late either.
Or she was having a meltdown and was trying to pull herself together…it must be a pretty traumatic thing to go through esp if you have to relive details of the doemstic abuse.
I agree. If there’s one thing you don’t do, it’s treat any legal proceedings with disrespect. Maybe she was having a meltdown, as Intuitive says…but you still have to get your butt there on time. They can bring this up with the judge and make Amber look bad.
The fact that her lawyer was also late makes me wonder that this was actually a scheduled late arrival that all parties were aware of and for whatever particular reason, and not actually her just being dismissive of this. It looks bad, but it’s not like Depp’s team is going to come out in her defense and say they knew she would be arriving later that morning.
Depp didn’t have to be at the deposition ?
She is the one being deposed. She is the only one who has to be there. If they depose him, she doesn’t have to be there.
No. It was up to him and then up to Amber to sign off the RO for the depo. It doesn’t matter
Which is a good thing because I’m sure his presence would have been used as an excuse for why she didn’t show up on time. As long as the RO is in effect they don’t need to be near each other unless the court mandate they be in the same place.
Apparently Depp is being deposed next week. The other party has a right to be present, but in this case Amber would have had to agree because of the temporary restraining order.
The looks really bad on her and considering her history with legal shenanigans (see the Australian dog case) and the severity of what she has been saying she needed to show up on time and prove herself a reliable witness. If her claims are thrown out of court it will be because in the eyes of the judge/law she’s an unreliable witness who can’t even turn up to court on time regardless of the receipts. She’s playing into the narrative that Depp and his team have put out there.
Both parties are being shady AF.
Agreed.
As much as I am Team Amber, it is uncool and disrespectful to show up late.
If this is just about money.. then doesn’t Johnny have enough money to make her go away. My thoughts are that Johnny doesn’t have the huge sums of liquid cash that we have been led to believe. Johnny works a lot and he has had some very high paying roles. So money should not be the issue. Yet it seems that is the stumbling block. Johnny has been liquidating a lot of things over the past few months. That happens when you need actual cash. And I’m surprised. I have always said that when you see these estimates of how many a celebrity is worth those totals are not the case. I look at what celebs do on the outside to make money. Johnny seems to be in need of money.
it will be great when all of this is over. I do believe Johnny was abusive to Amber. I base that on what he has said in the past and so on. But neither has handled this int he best way.
Johnny wouldn’t be selling off his art collection, French village, and Venetian villa if he didn’t need cash. I assume he paid a huge cash settlement to Vanessa Pardis and blew a ton of cash on his party lifestyle. His insistence on a non disclosure agreement of his finances, while not unusual, certainly raises my eyebrows given his recent selling spree.
It could be as simple as she is not 100% sure how much money he has and therefore wants to verify before a sum is determined. Maybe she is asking for more than he is willing to pay, or you are right and he could be having money trouble. Who knows.
If the attorneys had legal matters to negotiate between themselves like the deposition procedure or format or other purely administrative issues, Amber wouldn’t necessarily have to be present. There always seems to be last minute details attorneys must discuss in their legalese language before any action gets underway, I think there’s a good chance that she wasn’t supposed to be there until the lawyers finished hammering these things out. If her tardiness was truly unexpected, there is no way that I believe these attorneys waited around for an hour and a half and then didn’t leak the fact in harsher language to gain press points.
I agree.
We can’t know for sure but TMZ has a video and her attorneys were waiting outside for her, no report that they went in before . They also actually talked with the paps which was weird. No matter what she was ordered to be there 10AM nonetheless. It was also reported that his team would have taken legal action if she was any more late so I think the delay was from her part. She has been known for doing this before so it’s no surprise.
I think that we are at best supposing about what is going on with her and what made her late for the deposition.
It is not very uncommon for survivors of dva to find it difficult to make official statements especially when time allows things to settle. There is a apprehension around wanting to open a wound that is being plastered over and often there are many wobbles getting them to appear or even confirm earlier statements. This may have been the situation and she deserves the benefit of some patience as she was given.
Regarding her supposed new relationship Huge Huge numbers of survivors of dva throw themselves headlong into new relationships – often massively unwisely.
She’s received a lot of negative press for showing up late. If as you say, she wasn’t expected to be there until 11:30, wouldn’t her reps have corrected the press? She hasn’t been shy about making statements or leaking things to the press.
She has made very few official statements to the press, and we don’t know for sure what she has or hasn’t leaked to the press.
@Andrew, who wrote: “She has made very few official statements to the press, and we don’t know for sure what she has or hasn’t leaked to the press.”
Well, none of the photos on magazine covers of her bruised face were taken by the police, so who else could have leaked them to the press?
Good point.
I don’t think that People story actually came from Depp’s team. It sounds like a rehash of their story about him “never going back to LA,” which turned out to be false.
I think that People doesn’t have a Depp source at all during all this.They have reported many false things (like him being on his island while he was in LA) and they are obviously on Amber’s payroll. They ran the deposition story without mentioning that she and her attorneys were late. Enough said.Imagine the coverage if Depo was late for his deposition….
Hopefully this divorce gets finalized asap.
Amber isn’t coming off well at all.
I disagree. I think she has behaved impeccably throughout. And as was pointed out early upthread, it is often the case that the lawyers take an hour or so before the client arrives to hammer out details in legalese before the deposition begins.
I disagree. Any details are worked out before the appointed place and time. You don’t risk a walk out. She was very late and her lawyer probably had to put pressure on her to show. After settlement efforts the day before, they used depo as leverage to get to a settlement (didn’t work). Amber is stressed and probably wants it to go away but all of these lawyers are pros and are negotiating hard.
Also, in addition to what Bird said, if they needed an hour to hammer out details, then the lawyers should get there an hour earlier than is required.
This frustrates me because she has such a solid DV case. She has pictures, videos, witness the works. This case should be fairly easy to prove and I think it could change DV causes be cause Johnny depp is a huge actor and he couldn’t make this disappear. However, my frustration comes from the the stuff like this and Elon musk. Girl, you can win this. Don’t date a billionaire to feed into their narrative of you. Don’t show up an hour and a half late to court and make yourself seem flaky and unreliable. I know the whole case must suck emotionally for her but if she can just focus for a couple months, slam dunk
She has videos? Where are they? She’s been saying from the start she has videos, but I think those statements were more for the shock value than actuality. She’s released everything else to make herself look like the victim, yet the elusive videos remain unseen.
The only people she needs to show those (elusive) videos to are behind closed doors and related to the court and/or criminal proceedings. We may wish she’d leaked them, but she isn’t and wasn’t obligated to do so.
I dont want to see the videos. I want her to use the videos to make these charges stick to Johnny. She has a strong case evidence wise and I just dont want her to settle and for this to be forgotten in a couple months or worse, for johnny to win
Nice school marm/church lady outfit.
Jesus…I’m stunned that this is still going on! No way in hell Disney wants him to drag this out in a court room.
I don’t think that she has solid proofs : the vidéo is not présent in the judiciary documents, there are witnesses on the two sides and the police report. I don’t understand that she doesn’t go to the hospital or to the police to register her plaint or to take the photos (like that there Will be not question about the altération of the photos). There are apparent incohérence in some attacks evoked like in décembre 2015. I don’t understand why Depp doesn’t pay if he is guilty. Anyway this story is not positive for the victim. The fact that she shows late is bad and that is the fact that anybody must understand (if there is not excuse), like when she lies saying she wasn’t in la for the précédent déposition.
Amber being late to the deposition really surprise me, especially if she arrived with one of her lawyers (which is what the tmz article makes it sound like, unless I misunderstood). There’s always prep that you do right before to make sure that the person being deposed doesn’t screw anything up. I think I was almost 45 minutes late when I was being deposed, and it was no where near as contentious as this case.
That’s what I thought when I saw the headline… don’t lawyers prep their clients before depos?
I hate the persons who are in late and I hate how Depp and his team named his physical abuse ” all Amber drama”
On her side but very stupid & disrespectful for her to show up late, especially when it comes to her public image.
There have been many allegations regarding her heavy coke use. Not surprised.
she was working in London, she was supposedly going back to the States this weekend only for this deposition (curious, looks like Mr. Musk only started to tweet again yesterday too) it’s possible she was late because that, for her flight. It seems like she was dressing in the car when you watch the video and her lawyer arriving before (but also a bit late) it could have been to excuse Amber’s lateness to Johnny’s lawyers and assure them she was coming and why she was coming late. Of course, TMZ who ran to report she “was a no show” would never report if her lawyers informed to Johnny’s side of her delay
I think if she had a reasonable excuse her reps would have informed the media by now. It is a damaging thing to leave hanging.
If Amber had a good reason for being late it would have been out through her PR cause let’s face it, it hurt her case and she lost even more support.His team may use it against her and with a good reason.
Amber was 90 minutes late but if the lawyers got to depose her for the full 7+ hours and got to ask her every one of their questions then I don’t think its going to ultimately be that big of a deal. Of course TMZ was all over it (and jumped the gun saying she was no showing and that Depp’s team were going to site her in contempt).
We also don’t know why she was late. The fact that she had to fit this deposition into her shooting schedule could’ve meant she got into LA late (traveling from London to LA is a long trip and various delays could’ve happened). We don’t know for sure, and I ultimately don’t think its going to be that big of a deal.
But of course it means Amber is not being the “perfect victim”. Just like the rumors about her dating Musk. She is not doing what victims are “supposed” to do, so that means her doubters will just raise a stink over it and bash her.
I agree to a certain extant, but I feel like this “perfect victim” thing has to go both ways. Just because Amber has flaws does not mean that she isn’t a victim. OTOH, just because she is a victim of domestic violence, doesn’t mean that that we have to ignore her flaws. I think it’s ok for people to say that they disagree with some of her actions ( such as her alleged decision to jump into another relationship) It doesn’t mean that they are accusing her of lying or that they are blaming her for any abuse that she may have suffered from Depp.
Goldie, you articulated what I had a hard time doing myself, thank you.
yeah, let’s all scrutinize the abused woman.
I call bs on the late to court story and the fact that she’s beem dragged through court as a victim of abuse is bewildering. Why aren’t we seeing photos of JD going about trying to apologize, going to therapy and addicition prevention, not to mention anger management? Because he is a major Hollywood star and a MAN.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it seems wrong how little support she has from the general public and CB commenters (I love you guys, but this time i think you are way off base).
I don’t agree with paying just to make things go away. I would go to court and have it settled there.
She showed up late and the media decided to announce her a no show? Meanwhile Depp almost got into a fight with the paps last week and some how tmz missed that?😆😆And would people stop it with the Elon Musk stories! In every article I’ve read about this non couple multiple sources claim they’re just friends.
@BrooklynTam, who wrote: “She showed up late and the media decided to announce her a no show? Meanwhile Depp almost got into a fight with the paps last week and some how tmz missed that?😆😆And would people stop it with the Elon Musk stories! In every article I’ve read about this non couple multiple sources claim they’re just friends.”
But what has that got to do with Amber being nearly an hour and 30-minutes late for her deposition?
Its about TMZ always putting Amber on trial but never going after Depp nearly as hard as they go after her.
@Andrew, who wrote: “Its about TMZ always putting Amber on trial but never going after Depp nearly as hard as they go after her.”
Is it really ‘going after someone’ when you’re only reporting the facts of what happened? If TMZ were the only source reporting on this, then yes … but TMZ isn’t the only source who reported on the fact that Amber arrived nearly 90-minutes late to her deposition.
@Emma – The JP Lover, who wrote: “Is it really ‘going after someone’ when you’re only reporting the facts of what happened? If TMZ were the only source reporting on this, then yes … but TMZ isn’t the only source who reported on the fact that Amber arrived nearly 90-minutes late to her deposition.”
Its not about reporting that she was late, its about how they over-sensationalize it and paint her as the bad guy and put her on trial. As they do with every story they post about her.
Tmz is going nuts over Amber being late
for a deposition but they conveniently skipped over this incident where their boy Depp had to be held back form beating up two paps July 29th by trusty bodyguard Jerry https://mobile.twitter.com/KingShaneHarper/status/760267445122859008
there are even more pics here of sweet,kind,gentle Depp going after the paps here all the way at the bottom of the post-http://www.popculturediedin2009.com/post/145036318751/teamamber
I’m glad you posted those photos. I was going to do the same. He does seem to have anger issues. Surely after all these years in the spotlight, he should be able to ignore photographers!
Oy. TMZ and JustJared are now “reporting” that the deposition didn’t take place and she didn’t give a sworn testament. That instead they were there for 9+ hours trying to reach a settlement.
TMZ says it was someone from her team that said this, which I doubt because why would her team release info that would make her look shady?
Could someone with a legal background give us a little bit of insight on what this could mean given that a judge set the date/ordered the deposition?
Amber’s publicist says that she was there willing to do her deposition but Depp’s lawyers never started the deposition. She waited 9 hours while the lawyers talked things out. Depp’s team never insisted upon questioning her even though she was there.
Thanks Andrew. I just found a couple of articles stating the same. Plus they add that she wasn’t expected until 11am (which was my guess, that she just wasn’t expected until then), and she was late at that point because she was trying to avoid the paparazzi at the front of the building.
I have to add, I find it suspect that they wouldn’t depose her, considering the big stink they made about how she wasn’t “available” that one time she was scheduled to go for a costume fitting and wound up staying in town. For one, it’s a way to make her look bad, when the headline was just “she showed up late but wasn’t deposed.” So I think they don’t want it on video because she has solid evidence, and they really are the ones pushing for a settlement. I know nobody really cares to have their client be deposed because it sends everyone through a ringer, but in this case I think Johnny’s team knows that it’s going to look bad for him.
I don’t want to get shouted down for this, because I really don’t have an opinion for or against either side, but… I do have questions.
If the DV claims by Amber are true and she has a bunch of proof (and again, I’m *not saying* I don’t believe her), why wouldn’t Johnny just settle to end it all, quickly and quietly? His reputation has taken a hit before (no pun intended) based on his behavior, and he’s come through it fairly unscathed.
Also, why *didn’t* his lawyer have asked to have her cited for contempt for showing up so late? It seems like that would be another way he could make her life more difficult.
Also, are there any impartial witnesses to the abuse? Not his employees, not her friends – has anyone without a vested interest in either of them stepped forward to verify either side?
To reiterate, these are genuine questions I have about this situation. As a DV survivor myself, I have great empathy for what Amber is saying she went through, but I’m also confused about some of the details that have come out.
I know