Amber Heard hired a non-public detective who used to be an grownup movie star to dig up dirt on her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, in the summertime of 2019.
Paul Barresi was a mustachioed stud who appeared in Co-ed Fever, Bad Girls II and different X-rated movies.
Reinvented as a non-public detective, he’s labored for Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone.
Now he’s a problem in Depp’s US$50mil defamation go well with in opposition to his ex-wife, who claims the actor repeatedly assaulted her.
In a deposition taken in April 2021, Depp’s lawyer Ben Chew requested Heard’s former legal professional Eric George whether or not he was conscious of Barresi’s historical past in grownup movie. When George’s attorneys instructed George not to reply, Chew shortly stated: “We’re going to fight this another day.”
Chew then requested George what duties he gave to Barresi with respect to investigating Depp. This inquiry was additionally met with objection from George’s counsel and directions for him not to reply.
Barresi advised me: “It was Amber herself who assigned me to find incidences involving Johnny’s past bad acts, going as far back as the Viper Room days.”
The personal eye was supposed to discover different girls Depp had bodily abused, however got here up empty.
“Mr Chew was going down a rabbit hole when he quizzed Mr George about my former adult entertainment career,” Barresi stated.
He added: “It was hypocrisy of the highest order. Evidently Mr. Chew forgot that Johnny Depp’s co star in Cry-Baby was Traci Lords, one of the most controversial and notorious divas in adult entertainment history.”
Barresi starred with Lords six years earlier in 1984′s Miss Passion. Barresi stated: “Unlike Johnny in Cry-Baby however, the big-screen exposure I got in Miss Passion was without the benefit of clothes.”
Barresi added: “Johnny’s lawyer should be very pleased that after three months of investigating Johnny, the only thing I found out about him was that everybody loved him.” – Richard Johnson/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
