Despite reaching a verdict in June, more details about the defamation trial between celebrity ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have come to light in the form of unsealed court documents.
On July 13, more than 6,000 pages of legal filings from the case were unsealed. The Daily Beast, which first reported about the documents this weekend, said the information shed new light on the apparent strategies of both the Depp and Heard legal teams. Read more: Amber Heard to appeal $10M judgment in Johnny Depp defamation case Much of the new information did not bode well for Depp, who received overwhelming support during the actual six-week trial in Fairfax County, Va.
Several purported copies of the unsealed court documents have been shared online, including by YouTuber and legal commentator Andrea Burkhart, who shared the files to her website.
Burkhart accepted donations from viewers to pay the over US$3,300 fee to download the documents. The new information alleges that Depp’s legal team attempted to submit several items as evidence that never made it into the trial, including nude photos of Heard.