Johnny Depp will face a new lawsuit after he won the lawsuit for defamation against his ex-wife Amber Heard. This time the actor will face a charge of alleged assault on a location manager.
On July 9, 2018, Greg “Rocky” Brooks filed a civil lawsuit against Depp for alleged beating during the filming of “City of Lies”.
The 58-year-old actor could take a seat in the Los Angeles Supreme Court on July 25. In this new trial, he will have his famous lawyers, Benjamin Chew and Camille Vasquez, the New York Post revealed on June 8.
The alleged incident between Johnny Depp and “Rocky” Brooks
According to a Variety report on July 9, 2018, “Rocky” Brooks claims in his lawsuit that the incident happened on April 13, 2017, when Johnny Depp was returning from the Barclay Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
The location manager explains that the production was licensed to shoot until 7 p.m. outside the hotel and 10 p.m. inside, but she was asked to extend the license to host Depp, who wanted to direct a larger version of the scene with two friends.
Brooks was able to extend his leave twice, but at 11 p.m. the license officer asked him to finish filming and so he informed the film’s director, Brad Furman.
“Why don’t you say that to Johnny Depp?” says the man to whom Furman replied.
The plaintiff alleges that he went to find a police officer on set to help inform Depp, but before he could do so, Depp threw him out and shouted, “Who the hell are you?” “You have no right to tell me what to do!”
“I do not care who you are and you can not tell me what to do!” Brooks says Johnny yelled at him as he tried to explain to him that as a site manager, he had to make sure the production complied with city licenses.
In addition, “Rocky” says that Depp, while allegedly shouting at him, punched him twice in the lower left cage and challenged him: “I will give you $ 100,000 to hit me in the face right now!”.
When he did not respond to his alleged provocation, the plaintiff alleges that the actor continued to shout at him in front of everyone until his own bodyguards removed him from the set.
Brooks, who claims in his lawsuit that Depp’s breath “smelled of alcohol”, also noted that he was fired from production three days after the alleged incident because he refused to sign a document waiving his right to sue.
What did Johnny Depp say about the charges against him?
In its response to the lawsuit, The Sun reported on June 1 that Johnny Depp claimed that Brooks was injured due to “self-defense / defense of others” as he “caused” the actions that caused the damage.
Source: univision
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