Why James Franco Is Now Concerned within the Authorized Drama Between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

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Johnny Depp‘s authorized group reportedly plans to subpoena James Franco in relation to the defamation lawsuit in opposition to his ex-wife Amber Heard. 

In response to The Blast, The Deuce star is set to be subpoenaed over surveillance footage of Franco coming into an elevator with Heard simply hours after she had an explosive combat with Depp. This combat allegedly left Heard with a number of bruises on her face and physique. Nevertheless, Depp has claimed that she “painted on” the injuries to garner “optimistic publicity.”

Furthermore, within the defamation lawsuit he filed in March, the Pirates of the Caribbean star claimed that Heard’s allegations of abuse had been “conclusively refuted by two separate responding cops, a litany of impartial third-party witnesses, and 87 newly obtained surveillance digital camera movies.”

The recording befell simply at some point earlier than Heard filed for divorce from Depp. Within the paperwork she cited, “irreconcilable variations,” nonetheless, accusations of abuse would later come to gentle within the contentious divorce proceedings.

Regardless of the subpoena despatched to Franco, Heard’s lawyer Eric M. George tells E! Information in a press release that the video of Franco and Heard is “irrelevant.”

He provides, “Amber Heard and James Franco as soon as lived in the identical condominium complicated and had been merely taking an elevator on the identical time. Interval. Johnny Depp and his group have been attempting—and failing—to put a salacious story based mostly on this irrelevant footage for weeks. It is pathetic.” 

In the meantime, Depp’s lawyer shared in a press release with The Blast, “We’re desirous about James Franco and Elon Musk as truth witnesses as a result of we now have proof they’re males who noticed Amber Heard’s face within the days and nights between when she claimed Mr. Depp smashed her within the face on Could 21 and when she went to courtroom with painted on ‘bruises’ to acquire a Short-term Restraining Order on Could 27.”

E! Information has reached out to attorneys for Franco and Depp for remark.

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