KATY JAMES
Kate James, Amber Heard’s former personal assistant, alleged that Heard had appropriated her story of being a “sexual violence survivor,” giving evidence at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
Sasha Wass asked if James had been “influenced by Mr. Depp and his associates who have encouraged you to give this vicious evidence against her [Heard].”
“Absolutely not. I'm here for my own reasons … I’m a sexual violence survivor and that’s very, very serious to take that stance if you are not one and I am one. That’s the reason I’m here, because I take offense.”
Depp’s attorney David Sherborne asked her: “Can you explain why you take exception [to Ms. Heard’s allegations against Depp]?”
James replied, “Because Ms. Heard referred to a conversation we had about me being violently raped at machete point in Brazil and she used it as her own story.”
“She referred directly to a violent rape that occurred to me 26 years ago and she twisted it into her own story and she used it for her own use.”
James also alleged that Heard would send a “barrage of drunk text messages between the hours of two and four in the morning on a regular basis … on an almost daily basis.” She described the messages as “abusive.”
“We have very, very few texts between you and Ms. Heard … only the ones that Ms. Heard has provided to the defendants,” Sherborne said.
James explained: “I was using a phone that was logged into her [Heard’s] iCloud account", “When she terminated my employment, she deleted all of the texts from the cloud — only texts that were abusive. She saved the ones that weren’t.”
KEVIN MURPHY
Murphy claimed Heard told him to make a false statement about the dogs.
“Ms. Heard demanded verbally that I myself make a false witness statement regarding the dogs’ illegal entrance into Australia,” Murphy told the court.
“I expressed that I was extremely uncomfortable with doing so, to which Ms. Heard responded with words to the effect of: ‘Well I want your help on this … I wouldn’t want you to have a problem with your job.’”
“Ms. Heard’s threatening language made me feel anxious and uneasy.”
Murphy said he signed an untruthful statement in 2015, which claimed James had been responsible for travel paperwork for Boo and Pistol.
Asked why he lied, he said, “That’s what I was asked to agree to, and had the threat of losing my job or having trouble with my job.”
“Why on earth did you not go to Mr. Depp to ask him to intervene rather than just lying on oath, which you say you did?” Wass asked.
Murphy replied, “Because Amber wielded a lot of power and would have made my life miserable.”