10h 25min, dec 12, 2018 y - ACLU EMAILS Amber Heard Eric George Sean Walsh Jen Robinson

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18 - 12/12/18 Email re Approved letter (ACLU_00006479)

933 - Emails - Eric George to Amber Heard re Approved letter, 12/12/18

934 - Emails - Amber Heard to Eric George re Fw
Approved letter re aclu editorial team revision,
12/12/18

935 - Email - Eric George to Amber Heard re Approved letter, 12/12/18

937 - Email - Eric George to Shulman/ACLU re
Language, 12/12/18

938 - Email - Shulman/ACLU to Eric George re
Language, 12/12/18


Amber Heard to Eric George, Sean Walsh & Jen Robinson:
Please see below from editorial team at ACLU. I agree completely and feel it's missing without having the below originally included in the initial draft. Please let me know if I can go ahead and try and rework it a tiny bit.

Eric George to Amber Heard & Sean Walsh:
Hi A, just tried to call you. I'm e-mailing only you and Sean at this time. Here's the challenge: The confidentiality agreement in the divorce judgment is as broad as it gets. We have to live with it. The ACLU folks are surely well-intentioned, but they don't understand how broad it is. It, literally, prevents you from writing or discussing any information about your marriage or divorce. That's why I wrote the edits the way I did. There is no way that I am letting you expose yourself to the inevitable claim of breach the other side's lawyers would make werethe article to state, 'I signed an agreement not to talk about my marriage and I will not do that here. What happened to me publicly is more interesting and revealing than what happened within my marriage anyway - because it shows how institutions protect men accused of abuse.

Robin Shulman ACLU to Amber Heard and Sean Walsh: Thanks so much Amber and Sean. I so appreciate your work to protect Amber and also make this piece true to her experience. I'd love to hop on a phone call if you're available. I'm free now for the next 5 minutes, or again from 2-3 EST (40 minutes from now).
You had a brilliant solution for the paragraph about not talking about the marriage.
My concern is this paragraph:
Then two years ago, ofter I got a temporary restraining order against my then-husband, I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out. The day I left the courtroom and walked into a pack of hundreds of photographers. I didn't have a team of bodyguards-my lawyers used their own bodies to block out space for me to walk to my car. The whole way there, I heard press yelling the same question in one form or another: "Is it true you're making all this up?" Could we cut the words "marriage," "divorce," and "restraining order" and say this, below? (If we don't say something like "I became a public figure representing domestic abuse," the rest of the piece doesn't really make sense--it's not clear whether Amber is talking about the abuse she witnessed as a child, what was the pivotal moment that changed things for her, or why she knows about institutions protecting accused perpetrators.)
Then two years ago, ofter I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out. Once, I had to walk into a pack of hundreds of photographers, many of them yelling the same question in one form or another: "Is it true you're making all this up?"
Here's the whole piece in latest form. The only big changes are third and fourth paragraphs.
Thanks so much,
Robin

Sean Walsh to Amber Heard, Eric George & Jen Robinson: I think Eric's edits still get us 95 percent of what you want. I say send it out and damn the torpedos ahead.

Amber Heard to Eric George, Sean Walsh & Jen Robinson: Thank you for explaining it so clearly.

Eric George to Amber Heard: Thanks, A. Here's the thing - any reference at all to marriage or
divorce, even to say the word marriage or divorce and then elaborate that you're not, in fact, talking about it, is a technical violation. Would a reasonable ex or his lawyer object? Of course not. Will the opposing side that we're dealing with? Likely yes. So I propose we be artful in the words we use, so we can convey the same message without exposing you to the claim that you violated the agreement.

Eric George to Robin Shulman: Robin, good edits re the paragraph you forwarded. Can you please circulate a new version with the same, and I'll give a final review.


SOURCE:
US VA Court Documents:
- Johnny Depp Exhibit 18 [UNPUBLISHED]

- Amber Heard Exhibit 933, 934, 935, 937 & 938 [UNPUBLISHED]

- Eric George Deposition Transcript pp79 - 87

- Leaked to Media [Daily Mail]

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