An anonymous 911 call made the night Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had the blowout fight.
The recording was buried in legal files for nearly four years.
Refusing to give a name, the caller explains that a friend named Amber is being attacked by a man described merely as a 'boyfriend', saying: 'I happen to know that it's happening and I just need to remain anonymous.'
'So what did she say that this guy assaulted her or hit her?' the LAPD operator replies.
'Physically assaulting her, yeah,' replies the caller, becoming agitated. 'Send somebody up there please,' the caller adds.
Timestamped 8:27:27pm on Saturday May 21, 2016, the call appears to have been placed around the time Heard claims Depp flew into a rage.
Depp's attorney is questioning the identity of the caller, pointing out the female voice on the clip does not belong to iO Tillett Wright, a trans activist and Heard confidante who has since gone on record to say he dialed 911.
Depp's legal team point to an LAPD log that shows that Tillett Wright's call was not registered on their system until 10:09pm, around an hour and a half after the alleged attack.
They suggest the 8:27pm 911 call was instead placed by a different woman called Raquel Pennington, a yoga instructor and close pal of the Aquaman actress who 'lived rent free' in a neighboring apartment also owned by Depp.
She was specifically asked if she had dialed 911 in a July 2016 deposition.
'What steps did you take at any time from the moment you walked into the apartment until now to call the police' she was asked, under oath.
Pennington replied: 'The police had already been called by iO.'
Depp was seen on surveillance video leaving the apartment at 8:29pm and knew nothing about Heard's alleged injuries until she filed for a restraining order six days later and attended court with a bruised face.
The domestic violence case ultimately fizzled when the two LAPD officers who responded to the 8:27pm call, Melissa Saenz and Tyler Hadden, said they never found any evidence of a crime.
Officer Saenz said in a July 2016 deposition that the pair left behind a business card and didn't know until two weeks later the man involved was Johnny Depp.
Saenz said she also learned that a second patrol visited the penthouse later the same night.
She didn't recall the names of the officers but said in her testimony: 'Their findings were the same as ours.'
Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman said the various discrepancies proved that nothing Heard and her friends said about the events of May 21, 2016 could be considered credible.'Quite simply this was an ambush, a hoax. They set Mr Depp up by calling the cops but the first attempt didn't do the trick,'
'The officers came to the penthouses, thoroughly searched and interviewed, and left after seeing no damage to face or property.
'So Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight under the direction of a lawyer and publicist, and then placed a second call to 911.
'But even this didn't have the desired effect because two domestic abuse-trained LAPD police would later provide a pair of sworn depositions saying they saw no evidence of a crime.
'These lies about who made the calls and when are just the tip of the iceberg as the evidence will show in court.'