‘Pirates of the Carrebian’ actor Johnny Depp’s legal team released new evidence pertaining to his ongoing legal battle against ex-wife Amber Heard, as per media reports. The attorneys claimed that a bodycam footage from the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) officers who responded to the second of two 911 calls will prove that Depp did not have a violent altercation with Heard in 2016. 

This evidence comes ahead of Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard, which will take place in Virginia in 2022. The lawyers have reportedly deposed two officers and obtained body camera footage. They claim that neither of the officers support Heard’s allegations.

Four LAPD officers had visited Heard and Depp’s apartment in 2016 when they received a 911 call from the Zombieland actor’s friend. Two of them were wearing body cameras during the response, the report claims. 

“Amber Heard and her friends described a chaotic, messy crime scene but the newly released LAPD bodycam videos unambiguously show that the penthouse was utterly undamaged and that their testimony was one more grandiose lie,” Depp’s attorney Adam Waldman told DailyMail.com in a statement.

In November last year, Depp lost a libel lawsuit against the publishers of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which had called him a “wife-beater”. Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed the actor’s claim after three weeks of revelations about the couple’s stormy relationship, saying the article had been proven to be “substantially true”. He was also asked to resign from his role in WarnerBros’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’.  

The defamation trial is scheduled to take place on April 11, 2022.