Amber Heard’s shut buddy, British music journalist Eve Barlow, was dramatically thrown out of the bombshell Johnny Depp trial.
Sources who attended the $50 million defamation trial on Thursday inform us that Barlow – the previous deputy editor of the music bible NME and a New York Journal contributor – obtained into sizzling water with the decide by texting and tweeting from the entrance row of the courtroom, which is normally reserved for authorized counsel.
We’re informed Barlow, who has been seemingly inseparable from Heard previously 12 months, has allegedly been appearing like a part of the actress’ authorized workforce and even tried to intervene within the trial over Depp-friendly witness Gina Deuters.
In line with courtroom insiders, Barlow tried to advocate for Heard by asking her authorized workforce to indicate Choose Penney S. Azcarate that Deuters was allegedly compromised as a witness.
Sources say that Barlow allegedly introduced up a social media submit from Deuters, claiming it was a current submit from the present trial. Because it seems, the submit in query was truly shared in 2021 throughout Depp’s prior trial in opposition to The Solar newspaper in London.
Deuters – who’s the spouse of Depp’s longtime worker and collaborator, Stephen Deuters – admitted on Thursday that she had seen clips of the trial on-line previous to giving testimony. She was dismissed from the courtroom and her testimony was struck from the file.
Depp’s legal professionals responded by pushing a movement to have Barlow completely barred from the courtroom, which the decide permitted.
“Amber had her closest journalist buddy sit entrance and heart – along with her authorized workforce – on the trial, live-tweeting, texting and posting data,” a supply informed us. “Eve Barlow appears to suppose she’s a part of Amber’s authorized workforce. Depp’s legal professionals lastly had sufficient and had her barred from the courtroom.”
Choose Azcarate additionally objected to Barlow’s texting and tweeting and, in response to courtroom transcripts, mentioned, “She was tweeting dwell from my courtroom … and I do know the deputies took her out as a result of she was texting. That’s in opposition to the courtroom order. Ms. Barlow isn’t coming again into the courtroom throughout this trial.”
Barlow didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s request for remark, and a spokesperson for Heard didn’t get again to us.
Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for defamation in Fairfax, Va., over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Submit about surviving home violence.
Depp – who was married to Heard from 2015 to 2017 – claims his ex fabricated abuse allegations in an try to attain an enormous divorce settlement, which has broken his profession. Disney dropped Depp from his main function as Captain Jack Sparrow within the multibillion-dollar “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise simply 4 days after the op-ed ran.
In the meantime, Heard is adamant she informed the reality and has countersued Depp for $100 million.
Within the final week of testimony, Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn claimed that proof will present his consumer suffered home abuse by Depp that “took many kinds,” together with bodily, emotional, verbal and psychological abuse, in addition to “sexual violence by the hands of Depp.”
A spokesperson for Depp strongly denies the allegations as “fictitious.”
