Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, may have come to a close, but the shocking claims and accusations the former lovers leveled against one another didn't all make it into the trial.
Now, pre-trial court docs that were recently unsealed reveal Depp's team tried to submit nude photos of Heard into evidence, Heard's team tried to suggest Depp was taking erectile dysfunction medication and that there were supposedly damning texts that weren't allowed to be submitted for the trial.The defamation lawsuit lasted weeks, included countless hours of depositions, live testimony and dominated the media spotlight.
Despite the verdict falling primarily in Depp's favor and attempts to get the case thrown out and retried by Heard's lawyers, it felt that, after all that time, the world had gotten all there was to know aired out in court.As revealed in 6,000 pages of pre-trail court documents that were unsealed this weekend, there was quite a lot of information and details that both sides attempted to submit into evidence that did not get approved or was deemed inadmissible by the judge.
Some of the docs pertain to alleged evidence that both Heard and Depp's attorneys made efforts for the jury to evaluate, but were rejected.According to the copious docs, Heard's team claims that there was inconsistent metadata from the numerous photographs and recordings submitted by Depp's lawyers regarding the injuries he claimed he sustained and the verbal abuse submitted as evidence.Essentially, Heard's team claimed that the video, audio and photographic evidence submitted by Depp's team could possibly have been manipulated.
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