Elon Musk would pay regular late-night visits to Amber Heard in her California penthouse – but only when Johnny Depp was away, the megastar’s concierge told the High Court today.
Alejandro Romero, who worked at the actor’s Los Angeles apartment building, said that the Tesla billionaire would come over ‘a few times a week’ usually between 11pm and Midnight – and ‘would always visit when Mr Depp was not at home’.
Johnny Depp, 57, has accused Ms Heard of having an affair with the SpaceX entrepreneur before they divorced in 2016 and is suing The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) and its executive editor over the April 2018 article which alleged he was violent towards former spouse Ms Heard, 34, during their tumultuous three-year marriage now being laid bare in a British court.
Mr Romero said in his witness statement that, after Mr Musk had visited a few times, Ms Heard then gave him a remote control for the building’s garage and a fob to enter Mr Depp’s penthouse.
He said: ‘From March 2015 onwards, Ms Heard was visited regularly late at night, at around 11 :00 pm to midnight, by Mr Elon Musk. For his initial visits, I would receive a call from Ms Heard who would tell me to give Mr. Musk access to the garage for the building and then send him up to the penthouse. After he had made a few visits, Ms Heard provided Mr. Musk with his own garage remote and a fob to Mr. Depp’s penthouse. I believe he visited Ms Heard a few times a week and he would always visit when Mr Depp was not at home’.
Mr Romero also told the court he ‘did not notice any bruises, cuts, swelling, red marks or any other injuries of any kind to Ms Heard’s face’, after an alleged incident of violence by Mr Depp in May 2016.
MailOnline can reveal that Mr Depp missed the start of the ninth day of his libel trial today for a meeting about a new movie as his ex-wife watched as she was accused of making up domestic abuse to ‘extort’ and ‘blackmail’ the actor.
Artist Isaac Baruch also said his lifelong friend confided in him that Ms Heard ‘likes to argue and she likes to hit’ him – and said pictures of her injured face were ‘phoney baloney’.
Depp is said to be convinced Amber Heard was having a relationship with Mr Musk,
Cross-examining concierge Alejandro Romero, Sasha Wass QC, for The Sun, said: ‘What you say about Ms Heard and Mr Musk is not disputed, but what I do suggest is that you have got the dates all muddled up.’
Mr Romero said he remembered that it was March 2015 because ‘that was when Mr Depp injured his hand… that’s how I remember exactly the year’.
Ms Wass asked if it was ‘in that same month that Mr Musk started coming to the Eastern (Columbia) Building?’
Mr Romero said: ‘That’s correct.’
Ms Wass referred Mr Romero to his evidence that Ms Heard was ‘not resident at the Eastern until around March 2016’, asking: ‘Are you saying that Ms Heard, not being a resident, would invite Mr Musk to Mr Depp’s flat?’
Mr Romero said: ‘I do remember when Johnny Depp injured his hand, that was the first time I saw Mr Musk going into the building.’
Asked by Mr Depp’s barrister David Sherborne why he had such a ‘clear memory’ of the injury to the actor’s hand, Mr Romero said a friend of his was ‘a big fan of Mr Depp and he was concerned about him not being able to play the guitar, that’s how I remember, and then the same day I saw Mr Musk’.
Mr Romero said that he saw the SpaceX billionaire in the building on the same day he found out Depp had lost the top of his finger.
The infamous injury is said to have taken place during an explosive row between the former couple.
Depp maintains it was severed by a vodka bottle thrown at him by Ms Heard while his ex-wife claims he injured it himself when he smashed a wall-mounted telephone.
‘I remember my friend was upset that Depp couldn’t play guitar, and then later I saw Mr Musk in the building,’ the security guard said.
In his witness statement Mr Romero said: ‘I know Ms Amber Heard to be a resident of Penthouse 3 of the Eastern.
‘I saw Ms Heard at the Eastern for the first time in around July 2015 but I understand that she was not resident at the Eastern until around March 2016.
‘I frequently saw Ms Heard both in person and on security footage in the course of my duties.
‘I have never spoken with Ms Heard in relation to her personal life and I do not know Ms Heard outside of my duties for the Eastern.
‘My interaction with Ms Heard was limited to brief interactions about logistical matters with the apartments, including, for example, giving access to guests of Ms Heard..