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DAY 12

We're back in it... and Johnny Depp's case in chief still did not end. I'm stunned he still has more. Overall, it was a mixed bag for Depp's team if I'm honest.

The first witness was via Zoom with Travis McGivern, a gloriously bearded man who was security for Johnny. He discussed that Amber once went off on him about him getting between arguments when she started getting violent to protect Johnny and she told him off and belittled him and said he should imagine what it's like when people but into your relationship and he said he sympathized with that a bit.

He said they didn't start arguing really bad until after Australia, which is when Amber blew off Johnny's finger. He said she had no injuries or marks on her after that. He talked about how she's done everything in her power to keep Johnny from walking away including keeping an elevator open and refusing to let go of his arm. He also said that he has seen her throw stuff at him in the past.

He was a witness to the Staircase Incident, where Amber punched Johnny because supposedly he was going to shove Whitney, Amber's sister, down the stairs. She threw a full can of Redbull at Johnny during an argument and tried to get him to leave when Whitney forced Amber out. Instead, Johnny was starting to throw her clothes off the balcony. (He mentioned they had two bedrooms they converted into closets for Amber what the fuck rich people shit.) He said Amber came back and spit at him and threw more stuff at him. They were insulting each other, specifically Amber called him a deadbeat dad. "The f word is my favorite word, and the amount it was used made me feel uncomfortable."

So Amber's story is that Whitney got between them on the staircase, but Travis said that he was the one who got between the two and that Amber threw the punch past him, not past Whitney. He affirmed this on cross. Amber's face during this part... I think she's finally cracking under the pressure of it all. He said they were shocked. He took Johnny away and said it was no longer up to him to stick around, since he let him be hit by a can of Redbull and punched by Amber. I guess Johnny went to the bathroom and he went up to Travis and got in his face and yelled "That was your fault!" pointing to his shiner. Travis said "I mean, it was, really." He said Johnny didn't throw anything at Amber or get violent at all with her.

He affirmed that the Birthday situation, Amber had thrown Johnny's stuff out the window and he was the one who got him out of there. He also said Amber had no injuries then. He also said he saw her grab him, push him, throw things at him, among other physical acts.

Rottenborn came up during cross doing his typical minor impeachments that mean nothing and I'm just so tired of them at this point so I imagine that the jury has to be so tired of them too. He was like "Okay but he was grabbing hold of Amber's hair and trying to beat her with the cast, right!?" and "He pushed and attacked Whitney, right!?" And he just went "Uh, no that is not correct." And they just... move past it. No follow up questions. It's just bizarre. Nobody on the jury could possibly buy it. They didn't even bother to re-direct.

Next up is another Zoom witness, Jack Whigham who is Johnny's current manager representative. For obvious reasons, they did NOT want his testimony in and Elaine was doing the most nonsense objections ever repeatedly that it was just drawing more attention to the jury of his devastating testimony. She even was outright lying about what the witness was saying in a couple objections. Elaine is sooooo bad. I don't understand it.

He was basically able to specifically testify to the amount of work Johnny could get before Amber's op-ed and then after. He talked about how he was in talks with Pirates 6, and that they were discussing having $22.5 million for Johnny acting in the movie. He asked what role he would play and Elaine objected for speculation. Hilarious. What role do you think he'll play in Pirates 6? He confirmed it was just about a done deal before the op-ed and then they put out a statement 2 days later stating that it was being pulled. He said he tried to get it secured for Johnny after that but was unsuccessful. This is huge because it proves damages entirely. And it also proves that Pirates 6 was all but confirmed before the op-ed. Minamata, a movie Johnny was putting together at the time, lost most of its funding and they had to tear away the budget and minimize Johnny's actor's fee for it drastically to even get it made. He also confirmed other actors and actresses were getting consistent work too.

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Elaine was absolutely horrific doing cross with this guy? She was just so aggressive from the jump. She tried to mischaracterize that because a contract wasn't written out, Johnny didn't lose the role, when she knows full well that with giant roles, they start out as verbal discussions and they don't put written contracts out there until they're all sure about details of what they want and the money. He literally explained why and she's like "Okay but can you explain why there wasn't a contract?" Like he just did. lol Elaine is just insufferable. She was outright harassing this man. She's looking like she's about to charge the Judge and sighing dramatically and rolling her eyes. I don't get this style of cross examination and how a jury isn't just like "Fuck off lady." The problem is that any legitimate points she tries to make, she just muddies with a bunch of BS, drowning it and making the jury want to call all of it a wash. He kept telling her "I don't know" to a bunch of stuff because Wingham wasn't representing him at the time.

On re-direct he was just like "Hey can you provide the rest of the context to why there was no contract since Elaine wouldn't let you?" And so he did. And he confirmed it was 2 days after the op-ed that Disney made a final decision. Them doing these short re-directs is just showing that most of the cross is just noise.

Next up, they bring in their god damn assassin: Richard Marx, who is a 50 year veteran of Hollywood deal making. Let me just list some things this man was involved with:

- Getting the first high profile actor to do voice acting for Disney, with Robin Williams.
- Securing merchandising for children's IPs such as Care Bears.
- Getting George Foreman his George Foreman Grill set up.
- Ensuring Star Wars was made and securing merchandising for George Lucas.

This man is outrageously qualified to discuss Hollywood, and that's precisely why they brought him up. He basically said with confidence as an expert everything that we believe: Amber Heard had created a cancellable situation by making an article clearly discussing Johnny Depp and his abuse and calling out Hollywood for not doing enough for her situation, and waiting until the peak of her fame with the release of Aquaman to do so. He said that Hollywood doesn't care about drinking or drugs or anything like that. He said Hollywood doesn't care if people are late when they're as high profile like Johnny Depp.

He said that in the last five years with the Me Too Movement, that they all agree on immediately terminating people in Hollywood to distance from it. This is the man who destroyed everything that Kevin Spacey was a part of after he was accused, so he had intimate experience with what happens when someone is canceled and what they do. He said it's all about protecting the brand now. He came in, did incredible damage to Amber's case.