Johnny Depp's attorney says his texts about Amber Heard were modeled on 'literary giants': 'He's got a dark sense of humor'
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Lauren Edmonds
May 29, 2022, 00:19 IST
Johnny Depp filed a defamation case against ex-wife, actor Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse.REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool
Johnny Depp's attorney defended the actor's text messages about Amber Heard during closing arguments.
The Wrap reported Camille Vasquez said Depp models his writing on 'literary giants.'
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Johnny Depp's attorney said text messages presented during his defamation trial against Amber Heard were modeled after "literary giants."
According to The Wrap's Jeremy Bailey and Brandon Katz, Camille Vasquez addressed the text messages in her closing arguments on Friday. Heard's legal team presented the text messages Depp wrote, which described Heard with derogatory terms, during the six-week trial at the Fairfax County Circuit Court.
"Ms. Heard has shown you a lot of text messages from Mr. Depp with some very vivid language," Vasquez said, the outlet reported. "As I told you at the start of this trial, Mr. Depp has a unique style of writing. He uses words I don't use and you probably don't use either."
She continued: "But as you also heard during this trial, Mr. Depp writes that way, in part, because he models his writings on literary giants like Hunter S. Thompson."
Vasquez added that Depp has "a dark sense of humor. It's not everyone's cup of tea. But it's who he is."
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Representatives for Depp and Vasquez did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Insider's Zac Ntim reported that Depp, 58, sent messages about Heard, 36, to his longtime neighbor Isaac Baruch in 2016. In one text, Depp wrote that he hoped Heard's "rotting corpse is decomposing in the fucking trunk of a Honda Civic."
In another text to Baruch, Depp wrote, "That cunt ruined such a fucking cool life we had for a while."
Depp also sent messages to "Wandavision" actor Paul Bettany, writing, "I will fuck her burnt corpse afterward to make sure she is dead."
Later, Depp apologized and said he was "not proud" of the text messages he wrote about Amber Heard when asked to read them aloud in court by Heard's lawyers.
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"I'll just say that I'm not proud of any of the language that I used in these anger—," Depp said.
At the time, Depp's lawyers said the op-ed "depended on the central premise that Ms. Heard was a domestic abuse victim and that Mr. Depp perpetrated domestic violence against her."
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