While the ex-high-profile couple’s defamation lawsuit may take them to Virginia, Johnny Depp appears to have put an end to the assault and battery case that was set to go to trial in the City of Angels.
The parties have reached a settlement, it was announced on Monday, exactly two weeks before the trial Gregg “Rocky” Brooks, the former City of Lies location manager, had filed against Depp in 2018.
Arbella Azizian, Brooks’ attorney, stated in a document filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that a sort of settlement had been reached.
No details were disclosed, and everything might yet fall through as is customary in such situations right before the deadline. It appears as though Depp is paying off Brooks to leave and have another lawsuit dismissed following weeks of negotiations between the parties, similar to what he did with his former business managers in 2018.
A trial with Brooks had potential train wreck written all over it for Depp because it came almost two months after the former Pirates of the Caribbean actor was awarded more than $10 million in damages by a Virginia jury in his long-running defamation case against Heard over a Washington Post op-end she wrote about being “the public face of domestic abuse.”
