New legal battle for Johnny Depp, accused of violence

Rreturn to the “court” box. As soon as the trial opposing him to his ex-wife Amber Heard ended, Johnny Depp was called back to court for another case. The actor is accused of hitting Gregg Brooks, stage manager on the set of City of Lies, according to information from TMZ relayed by RTL, Saturday June 18. The complainant recounts an altercation that occurred in April 2017, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. After several laborious takes of the same scene, Gregg Brooks would have warned director Brad Furman and the main actor that there was only a short time left before the expiration of their filming authorization in these places. The tone would then quickly rise. Deeming him “unstable”, Gregg Brooks would have decided to contact the police.

Before the call could be made to law enforcement, Johnny Depp reportedly came to blows. “Who the fuck do you think you are? You have no right to tell me what to do, ”he would have vociferated before delivering two blows in the rib cage of the manager. “I’ll give you $100,000 to punch me in the face,” he would have added, according to the words of Gregg Brooks, who specifies that the breath of the actor had a strong stench of alcohol.

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Gregg Brooks, provocateur?

The two men would have been separated by bodyguards present on the set of this detective biopic. In response to these accusations, the actor ofEdward Scissorhands and of Las Vegas Paranoid pleads “self-defense”. Johnny Depp believes that Gregg Brooks “provoked” the acts that caused his injuries. Only a few days after the favorable conclusion of his trial for defamation, a new judicial chapter opens.

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