Amber Heard’s phone records have apparently been handed to Johnny Depp and his legal team in an attempt to prove their allegation that the actress “faked” photographs of abuse.

The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star, who is suing Heard for $50 million, alleges she doctored images purporting to show her with two black eyes, which she claims she received from the actor in 2015.

“Ms. Heard’s counsel has repeatedly used these phony photographs at deposition,” Depp’s lawyer Benjamin Chew complained to the Circuit Court of Fairfax County in a court document, according to Page Six.

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, in Virginia for an op-ed she published in the Washington Post in 2019 on domestic violence, which he claims was a defamatory assault on him.

Despite the fact that she did not mention the actor by name, her writing was informative. Heard has previously claimed that during a 2015 incident in Los Angeles, she suffered two black eyes, a fractured nose, and a broken lip at his hands, with images of the supposed injuries being sent around the world.

Heard claimed she suffered two black eyes, a broken nose and a broken lip at the hands of Depp in 2015.
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Page Six reports Chew said in the complaint when the LAPD responded to the 2015 confrontation between Depp and Heard, “they found no injury upon Ms. Heard and no disruption to the penthouses.”

The Los Angeles Police Department likewise “disavowed the photographs” claiming that they “they did not depict what they saw.”

“Heard and her friends then fabricated photos that she used to obtain an ex parte TRO [temporary restraining order] and a $7 million divorce settlement which Ms. Heard falsely testified in London she gave to the ACLU and, more scandalously, to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; sick children with cancer,” Depp’s lawyer told the court.

According to the publication, the court has given Depp and his legal team access to her phone records so that their expert, Brian Neumeister, may examine the metadata and determine whether any doctored images were taken. According to reports, the earlier photographs they got lacked metadata.

“Mr. Neumeister’s preliminary investigation shows that a number of the photographs have been run through a photo — a photo editing application called Photo 3 that can easily manipulate images such as showing bruises where none existed,” Chew added.

Heard’s lawyer says she “remains willing and able to support the authenticity of her evidence.”
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Depp lost his libel case against the Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom in November 2020. It was because of an article that referred to him as a “wife-beater.”

Chew, in a recent Virginia court filing, said that Sun’s expert decided that Heard’s images from December 2015, which showed her bruised face, “were manipulated three years later.”

He also stated that the expert discovered images taken with an iPad Pro 10.5 on or after October 6, 2018.

‘When that came up in her testimony in London, Ms. Heard falsely denied it. In short, Your Honour, without forensic imaging Mr. Neumeister cannot properly assess or verify Ms. Heard’s data,’ Chew added.

Elaine Bredehoft, Heard’s attorney, told Page Six that in 2022, Heard “welcomes the opportunity to present her evidence in a trial by jury, in a court of law”

Bredehoft added, “This is a dirty strategy (after having been found to have committed multiple significant acts of domestic violence against Amber Heard) by Mr. Depp’s legal team, to present false claims while avoiding accusations of defamation because of judicial immunity.”

“While legal hearings are protected from defamation, they are not protected from leaks to the press, which is exactly Mr. Depp’s intention—even though he lost every one of these arguments in the UK trial—his first choice of forum,” Bredehoft stated. “He is trying to interject out-of-context and already proven to be false pieces from his unsuccessful efforts in court to attempt to deceive the public, pretending these issues have not already been fully tried, in his court of choice, where he lost. Now, in yet another court of law, he is unable to submit his own evidence because he has nothing to prove his claims.”