Johnny Depp’s home in Hollywood Hills was broken into and a burglary suspect was later arrested over the weekend, according to a new report.
TMZ claims that a woman who was probably homeless entered the mansion of the Oscar-nominated actor over the weekend, with the house security system activated and the police alerted.
The woman is said to have been horrified by the alarm system and fled the property before police arrived. It is unclear if anything was taken from the 57-year-old actor’s home.
However, she was later found nearby with police connecting her to another recent burglary – and was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
Turbulent weather: Johnny Depp’s house in Hollywood Hills was broken into and a burglary later arrested over the weekend, according to a new report (in July)
It is understood that Depp was not at home at the time of the alleged break-in.
Depp bought the house in West Hollywood Castle in the 1920s in West Hollywood on a four-acre eucalyptus forest in 1995.
Mailonline contacted representatives for Johnny Depp and the Los Angeles Police Department for comments.
The police incident comes at a turbulent time for the actor, after the High Court upheld the claims of his ex-wife Amber Heard that Depp beat her during their marriage.
Crime: TMZ claims that a woman who was probably homeless, entered the mansion of the Oscar-nominated actor (pictured) over the weekend, with the house security system activated and the police alerted
In November, Judge Nicol ruled that The Sun’s 57-year-old report that Depp had been violent against her was “substantially true” and that the Pirates of the Caribbean star had put her in fear for her life. them, while getting into drinking and drugs. .
Depp appealed to the High Court’s verdict and is also suing Heard in the United States for a separate article in the Washington Post written two years ago, which means the actress cannot speak freely about her legal battle with Depp.
Speaking to Sky News about her new role in a series based on a Stephen King novel, Heard said it made her question the fact that she faces “incredible circumstances and incredible adversity and that everything is on the line ”.
Heard’s new show, The Stand, sees Nadine Cross play as one of the survivors of a flu outbreak that kills 99% of the population, causing a “power struggle for good and evil.”
The woman’s burglary is said to have been frightened by the alarm system and she fled the property before police arrived. It is unclear if anything was taken from the 57-year-old actor’s home
Filming ended in March just before the Covid pandemic spread around the world.
The star said: “Nothing could have prepared me for 2020, let’s face it. I don’t think I’m the only one saying that. I don’t think anything could have prepared me.
In the latest legal hearing in Virginia, between Heard and Depp, this week, Fairfax County Judge Bruce D. White blocked Depp’s attempt to throw Heard’s case out of court on a new law.
Heard was allowed to advance in his $ 100 million counterclaim against the actor, after his lawyer, Adam Waldman, last year called his domestic violence allegations “false” and a “sexual violence hoax,” according to legal documents. published in The Hollywood Reporter.
Exes: The police incident comes at a turbulent time for the actor, after the High Court upheld claims by ex-wife Amber Heard that Depp beat her during their marriage (pictured 2015)
The Kentucky-born actor tried to use a new anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) law passed in the state last year to dump Heard’s suit.
Depp rejected his claims against anti-SLAPP immunity, the judge said, noting public concern and that actor Edward Scissorhands “could have made these statements with real or constructive knowledge or reckless disregard for being false.”
The judge added that Depp’s comments and Waldman’s “prank” remark imply that Ms Heard lied and lied to herself when she appeared in court in 2016 to obtain a temporary restraining order against Mr Depp and “involves the fact that he lied about being a victim of domestic violence.
Legal battle continues: At the most recent hearing in Virginia between Heard and Depp, Fairfax County Judge Bruce D. White blocked Depp’s attempt to throw Heard’s case out of court earlier this week; photographed in 2020
“In light of the #MeToo Movement and the current social climate, false support for abuse would certainly be hurt” [Heard’s] reputation in the common esteem of mankind ‘, the judge wrote in his judgment. “The Court therefore finds that the statements contain the ‘sting’ required for an actionable defamation claim.”
The judge concluded that Waldman’s remarks did not fall within the protected view, because “whether Mr Depp abused Mrs Heard is a fact which can be proved to be true or false”.
In November, Depp was retired from Fantastic Beasts 3 by Warner Bros., while he played Gellert Grindelwald in the JK Rowling series.
Depp’s case is set to go to trial on May 3, while Heard’s trial will be brought to court later this year.
Doomed: Heard and Depp broke up in January 2016 in LA, months before their split