Johnny Depp is a “red wine drinker”, ex-girlfriend and actress Ellen Barkin said.
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Johnny Depp was jealous, controlling and often drunk, and once threw a bottle of alcohol into his Las Vegas hotel room, his ex-girlfriend, actress Ellen Barkin, said in recorded testimony. negative earlier on Thursday.
Barkin, 68, who testified in a defamation lawsuit filed by Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard, said she had a brief “sexual relationship” with Depp in the 1990s.
Barkin’s testimony was videotaped in November 2019 and shown to a seven-person jury hearing the defamation case at Fairfax County Court in Virginia.
The jury also heard testimony from Depp’s former talent agent, his former business manager, and the representative for Heard, 36, who accused Depp of domestic abuse.
Depp, 58, during four days of testimony, denied ever hitting Heard or any other woman and said she was a frequent abuser.
Barkin said that during the few months they were together, Depp was often drunk and extremely jealous.
“He was drunk a lot of the time,” she said. “He’s a red wine drinker.”
“He’s just a jealous, controlling man – ‘Where are you going? Who are you going with? What did you do last night?'” she said.
“I got a scratch on my back once which made him very, very angry because he claimed it was because I had sex with someone who wasn’t him.”
Barkin recounted an incident during the filming of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” in 1998.
“Mr Depp threw a bottle of wine across the room, the hotel room in Las Vegas,” she said.
“I don’t know why he threw the bottle,” Barkin said, though she recalls that Depp may have argued with friends or with his assistant.
– ‘Unprofessional behavior’ –
Depp filed a lawsuit against Heard over an article she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard, who starred in “Aquaman,” did not name Depp in the op-ed, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages.
Texas-born Heard protested, demanding $100 million and claiming she suffered “pervasive violence and physical abuse” at his hands.
Depp’s former agent and sales manager testified that the actor’s career and finances were in serious trouble before Heard first accused him of domestic violence in 2016. .
Tracey Jacobs, Depp’s former agent, said he “became the biggest star in the world” during the decades she represented him in Hollywood.
But his reputation began to fade after 2010 because of “unprofessional behaviour”, Jacobs said, including his use of drugs and alcohol and frequent appearances late on set.
She said: “The crew doesn’t like to sit around for hours waiting for the star of the movie to appear. “It’s a small community and it makes people reluctant to use him until the end.”
Jacobs said Depp fell into “financial despair” in January 2016 to the point where he went to the company and demanded $20 million.
– ‘Extremely interested’ –
Josh Mandel, Depp’s former sales manager, said he became “extremely concerned” about Depp’s finances in 2015.
Depp was spending $300,000 a month on full-time employees at a time.
There are “ongoing” conversations about limiting his spending, he said, but it “never seems to happen.”
Jessica Kovacevic, Heard’s representative, said the “repeated and negative tweets” against the actress after she accused Depp of abuse had severely damaged her career.
Mandel was fired by Depp in 2016 and later sued by the actor. They settled the case in 2018.
Jacobs was fired by Depp in 2016.
Depp’s lawyers have brought experts to testify that the actor has lost millions of dollars to abuse allegations, including a $22.5 million payday for “Pirates of the Caribbean” season six. “
Depp filed a defamation complaint in the United States after losing a separate defamation case in London in November 2020 that he sued The Sun for calling him a “wife beater”.
Depp, a three-time Academy Award nominee, and Heard were married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
Judge Penney Azcarate scheduled the conclusion of arguments in the case for May 27.
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