10 St. 30 Min, 2 Jul 2019 Jahr - PAGE SIX James Franco subpoenaed in Johnny Depp’s $50M suit against Amber Heard

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James Franco subpoenaed in Johnny Depp’s $50M suit against Amber Heard: report

By Tamar Lapin

James Franco is the latest celebrity to be dragged into Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard, a report said Tuesday.

Lawyers for Depp, 56, are sending “The Deuce” star a subpoena over a video that shows him getting close with the actress on an elevator ride one day after Depp allegedly gave Heard, 32, a black eye in a marriage-ending fight, ­according to The Blast.

Depp has claimed Heard used makeup to gin up bruises, and his lawyers want to ask Franco and Heard’s ex-boyfriend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, what she looked like at the time.

“We are interested in James Franco and Elon Musk as fact witnesses because we have evidence they are men who saw Amber Heard’s face in the days and nights between when she claimed Mr. Depp smashed her in the face on May 21 [in 2016] and when she went to court with painted on ‘bruises’ to obtain a temporary restraining order on May 27,” Depp’s attorney, Adam Waldman, told The Blast on Tuesday.

Footage, obtained by the website, allegedly shows a disheveled Heard boarding the elevator in a dowdy cardigan, getting off on another floor and walking back in trailed by Franco.

She then stands next to the 41-year-old actor, and both of them lean their heads down and away from the cameras. At the end of the clip, Franco can be seen putting his forehead on Heard’s shoulder before she leans her head on his.

Heard’s attorney Eric George told Fox News that his client and Franco once lived in the same apartment complex and were simply taking the elevator at the same time.

“This bogus story is just another lame attempt by Johnny Depp and his team to spread deliberately misleading information through the tabloid media so that he can continue to attack and abuse his ex-wife,” he said. “Johnny Depp and his team have been trying — and failing — to place a salacious story based on this irrelevant footage for weeks. It’s pathetic.”

Depp sued Heard in Virginia last year over a Washington Post op-ed she penned about her experience as a victim of domestic violence. Depp was not named in the piece, but he insists it was strongly inferred he was the perpetrator.

Heard responded to his lawsuit in April this year by detailing the alleged “horrific” abuse she claims she suffered at the hands of the actor.

The “The Rum Diary” co-stars were married for just over a year before they separated in May 2016.


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