While Johnny Depp is best known for his performance in Pirates of the Caribbean movie series, Edward ScissorhandsAnd the Donnie Brasco And many other films, recently the actor has been drawing attention mainly to the drama in his personal life. A little over a month ago, the defamation trial between him and his ex-wife Amber Heard ended, with Depp awarded $10 million in damages and $5 million in punitive damages (although this latter amount was later reduced to $350,000). Now it comes out today that Depp has solved another of his cases, which in this case means he won’t have to go through another trial.
You may remember the 2018 movie city of lieswho saw Johnny Depp play Russell Paul, the LAPD detective who looked into the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. city of lies He was also the source of an assault and battery case against Depp by Greg “Rocky” Brooks, the film’s location manager, in 2018. Four years later, he filed in Los Angeles Superior Court from one of Brooks’ attorneys, Arbella Azizian (via Limit), states that after weeks of behind-the-scenes talks, a settlement of some sort has been reached. While the terms have not been announced and that settlement likely will be overturned, it appears that Depp chose to pay Brooks to drop the lawsuit two weeks before the trial began.
For those who are out of the loop in this specific case, the lawsuit alleges that on April 13, 2017, Greg Brooks went to tell Johnny Depp that production was on. city of lies It was rolling at night. Presumably Depp, whose breath was allegedly smelt of wine, began yelling obscenities at the site manager and then hit him “twice in the lower left side of his rib cage causing pain”. The actor then shouted out that he would pay Brooks $100,000 to “punch me in the face now,” but he was soon removed from the area by his security team. Brooks was then asked not to sue city of lies production, and when he declined, it was pink on April 16, 2017.
The trial between Johnny Depp and Greg Brooks has been postponed due to the pandemic, but with a few weeks left until it’s set to begin, unless a last-minute abrupt change happens, we’ll never see Depp again in a courtroom dealing with this particular legal drama. Had the trial continued, one of Depp’s lawyers would have been Camille Vasquez, who also represented him in the libel trial against Amber Heard. Speaking of Heard, she is now facing a new lawsuit of her own, this one brought by New York Marine and General Insurance.
While the trial between Johnny Depp and Greg Brooks has been set aside, the actor is not out of the legal limbo for good yet, as Amber Heard’s attorney looks to get a libel trial ruling by claiming there was an error in Juror 15. As far as Depp’s acting work goes, his upcoming movie no favorit It will eventually be released on Netflix.
