Johnny Depp’s lawyer claims Amber Heard‘s attorney is the one with ties to Harvey Weinstein — after his ex-wife filed a subpoena seeking to get the Weinstein Company to turn over details on Depp’s dealings with the disgraced moviemaker.
“Amber Heard’s #TimesUp counsel Roberta Kaplan continues her discovery abuses, bizarrely invoking the name of her former client Harvey Weinstein and a 2004 film he produced in hopes of distracting from Amber Heard’s own taped confessions of violence and abuse hoaxes,” Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman said in a statement to The Post Tuesday.
“But Weinstein’s real association is with Roberta Kaplan herself,” Waldman said.
Waldman claimed that Kaplan and Tina Tchen, the founders of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, “have a client list of accused abusers and hoaxers that includes Jussie Smollett, Harvey Weinstein and Amber Heard.”
“Real abuse victims deserve better self-appointed leaders than these buck-chasers,” Waldman said.
Waldman made the comments after Depp, 56, filed a Manhattan Supreme Court petition Friday seeking to quash a subpoena filed by Heard, 33, that requests a number of documents, including all “communications between Mr. Depp and Harvey Weinstein.”
Heard’s subpoena aims to seek discovery relating to Depp’s ongoing $50 million defamation lawsuit against her.
It also seeks documents “concerning any act of violence committed by Mr. Depp during the production or promotion of ‘The Libertine,’ ” a 2004 Weinstein Company-produced movie starring the actor.
Depp’s petition says the subpoena “is overbroad and seeks the production of documents that are not properly subject to discovery” in the Virginia defamation suit.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star filed the defamation suit after Heard — his wife of just over a year until they separated in May 2016 — penned a Washington Post op-ed about her experience as a victim of domestic violence.
While Depp was not named in the piece, he insisted it was strongly inferred he was the perpetrator. Heard responded by detailing the “horrific” abuse she allegedly suffered at his hands.
Heard’s spokesperson said in a statement to The Post Tuesday: “Unlike Mr. Depp, who continues to insist on litigating this lawsuit – that he initiated – in the press, Ms. Heard looks forward to winning her case in court.”
Kaplan and Tchen did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Waldman’s claims.
Additional reporting by Natalie Musumeci
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