The investigator has revealed his frustrated mission after interviewing a hundred people to find evidence of abuse
The soap opera that has been developing between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, also actress Amber Heard, since she filed a complaint against the actor for domestic violence in May 2016, has a new chapter. On this occasion. As detailed by the newspaper Amber Heard, through her lawyers, she hired a prestigious private investigator last summer to find people to support her version that Depp is a violent person, and failed in the attempt.
Paul Barresi, which is the name of the investigator, has revealed to the British media that his objective was to find people who had been subjected to verbal or physical abuse by Johnny Depp to count on them as witnesses in defamation cases facing the couple in the United Kingdom and the United States and that will be judged in the coming months after having had to be delayed because of the coronavirus. But Barresi, who interviewed at least a hundred people in the United States and Europe, according to what he told the British newspaper this week, found testimonies radically different from those expected by Heard, whom he describes as "emotionally exhausted, mistreated and tormented” when he treated her.
In the information that the investigator provides to the Daily Mail via email, he even details names such as Jane Galli, head of the make-up department of the film City of Lies, whose premiere was delayed due to accusations of mistreatment against Depp. "Galli had worked with Depp on other films and she told me: 'It's a sweetheart.' Something that was corroborated by the director of the same film, Brad Furman, who referred to the actor as a true human being, professional and wonderful in every way. Or the assistant director, Paul Silver, who told him "Although Johnny is not always on time and sometimes delays the shoot, he is a professional and always delivers." The same person answered if Depp ever lost his cool: "All artists have a bad temper."
Barresi, however, says that all these statements do not tell the full story of the "weird" Depp and the "disgusting" environment he hangs out with. He affirms that he interviewed the famous tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw, a friend of the actor for 30 years and the author of most of the tattoos he wears, and says that when he asked about Depp his answer was: "The only thing I would be willing to do in this search It's to help load the gun I want to use to blow their brains out." Barresi also says that the actor's environment is more volatile than himself, for example, he refers to his lawyer as "a bulldog." And he thinks this is partly to blame for Amber Heard's frustration. "I don't think there is much difference between verbal and physical abuse, it does the same damage," Barresi goes on to say.
From the testimonies he collected, the detective affirms that Depp seems a "generous man to the extreme, who has come to cover legal costs, medical bills, and rent for his friends." To which he adds: "The irony is that they seem to have loyalty eternal towards him, but I am not completely convinced that they are his friends.
The previous ones of this story are already known: a divorce agreement in exchange for 6.4 million euros that arrived on August 16, 2016, and that caused Heard to withdraw the accusations against her already ex-husband, and a joint statement in which The ex-partner stated that their marriage was "very passionate and sometimes volatile, but always united by love." And then the restart of the confrontation between the two when the actor felt alluded to by an article published on December 18, 2018, in The Washington Post and signed by Amber Heard, in which he said: "Two years ago, I became a public figure that stood for domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's anger at women who speak out."
On March 1, 2019, Depp filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife for insinuating that he was an abuser and causing him to be fired from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, claiming that the victim of her violence was actually him. Heard fired back a month later with her court response in which she claimed he was a "monster." And Depp replied that she falsified evidence against him and stated in her plea that she has never abused any woman. The interpreter also filed a defamation lawsuit against The Sun and its editor Dan Wootton, a trial that should have been held in London on March 23 and that has been delayed due to the coronavirus crisis.
