Who Is Camille Vasquez? 5 Things to Know About Johnny Depp’s Lawyer Amid Amber Heard Defamation Trial
19.05.2022 - 19:31
/ usmagazine.com
A tough cross. Amid Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s ongoing defamation lawsuit, one of the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s attorneys has made headlines for her no-nonsense line of questioning.
Camille Vasquez is a litigation associate for Brown Rudnick, the firm that Depp, 58, hired to oversee his legal defense. Vasquez, 37, has been questioning Heard, 36, earlier this week about the nature of her relationship with Depp and the timeline of their divorce.
“[James Franco] was my friend. And he lived next door, quite literally next door,” the Aquaman actress told Vasquez on Tuesday, May 17, of their connection shortly before her divorce. “And I, frankly, had exhausted my support network with my usual friends and was happy to welcome as much friendship at that time as I could possibly get.”
The Dark Shadows star is suing Heard — whom he was married to between 2015 and 2017 — for defamation following a 2018 article she wrote for the Washington Post. In the editorial, Heard revealed she was a survivor of domestic abuse. While the Friday Night Lights alum did not name her alleged attacker in the op-ed, Depp’s team claimed there were parallels between the Kentucky native and the allegations.
Heard — who initially connected with Depp on the 2009 set of The Rum Diary — previously claimed on the stand that she was not sure if she would make it out of their marriage.
“Unfortunately, all of this is real. I narrowly survived it, but I survived it,” Heard said in her Monday, May 16, testimony, referring to her past allegations that Depp abused her. “I tried to protect Johnny — and the secret I tried hard to keep for five years. … I was scared and very conflicted because the person I was scared of was also the person I was in love with.”
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