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Shot of the scene in the long and tangled legal battle that sees opposite Johnny Depp and ex-managerAs reported by Deadline, the actor has lost his lawyers main a little more than four months from the beginning of the process for the (alleged) fraud millionaire which he accused Joel and Rob Mandel Management Group (TMG). According to information collected by the site and contained in an official document filed with the Supreme Court of Los Angeles, the law firm of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips has given the mandate to defend the plaintiff in the trial, which will begin on the fifteenth day of August. Kanny, John Gatti, Benjamin G. Chew, and three other employees took over Mona Z. Hanna Michelman Robinson The why of the change in stroke is not clear. However, it could be a (risky) move to postpone the deposition sworn that Johnny should release at the beginning of the month of may. The new defence could make the lever on the rotation to apply to the Court for an extension. Waldman, of the Endeavor Group, which has defended the actor from accusations of being finished on the pavement due to his spending spree since the beginning of the controversy with TMG. But according to Deadline, it would be an error, and the lawyer will continue to represent the star of Pirates of the Caribbean. Of course, Waldman remains the man of confidence of Johnny in the cause thirty million dollars against the former lawyer Jacob Bloom studio Bloom. Goodman, who according to the actor would be responsible, together with Rob and Joel Mandel Management Group of the mismanagement of its finances and of the financial crash. The turnover of the defense lawyers, Johnny Depp has been a bolt from the blue not only for the proximity of the process, but also because it arrived just a couple of weeks away from a tough stance determined precisely by the team of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, in collaboration with Waldman. The winds of march, the pool of lawyers has rejected in the lapidary declaration in an instance advanced to November from TMG to obtain from the court an order of sale of the five properties of the actor in Los Angeles, by way of repayment of a loan of five million dollars granted by the former manager to 'Captain Jack Sparrow' and apparently never repaid. Because Johnny accuses Joel and Rob Mandel to have cheated, these last do the same with him. According to the two, the actor would not have complied with the financial arrangements vis-à-vis their company and would not have paid part of the work. In addition, the former manager claim that the forty millions of the debts of the Pirates of the Caribbean star were not caused by TMG, but rather from the way of life to be exaggerated and over the top of Johnny.
In July, the court judge Teresa Beaudet ruled that the spending spree of the plaintiff are irrelevant to the dispute.
However, he has given Joel and Rob Mandel the possibility of submitting a new instance for compensation in respect of the star. What that ex-manager have readily done New developments were planned for early may, with the affidavit of Johnny, but the abandonment of the firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips (who has not released any statement about it, at least for the moment) has changed the cards on the table.
