EXCLUSIVE Amber Heard’s ‘private investigator’ reveals his shock over unwavering support for Johnny Depp after being hired to dig up dirt on the actor for defamation trial in new book

The one-time private investigator hired by Amber Heard’s legal team to dig up dirt on Johnny Depp admits he was stunned at the amount of unwavering support towards the actor while he had been facing abuse allegations.

In his new self-published book, Johnny Depp’s Accidental Fixer, released on July 5, Paul Barresi, 74, recalls interviewing 100 people ahead of Depp’s libel trials against his ex-wife, only to find that the majority were still on the star’s side.

They described Depp as a ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ and as someone who ‘doesn’t have a mean bone in his body’, despite the disturbing accusations that had been leveled against him.

The one-time private investigator hired by Amber Heard’s legal team to dig up dirt on Johnny Depp admits he was stunned at the amount of unwavering support towards the actor while he had been facing abuse allegations.

In his new self-published book, Johnny Depp’s Accidental Fixer, released on July 5, Paul Barresi, 74, recalls interviewing 100 people ahead of Depp’s libel trials against his ex-wife, only to find that the majority were still on the star’s side.

They described Depp as a ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ and as someone who ‘doesn’t have a mean bone in his body’, despite the disturbing accusations that had been leveled against him.

Friends of the Pirates of the Caribbean star also told Barresi that Depp had ‘respect and adoration for women’ – in contrast to Heard’s claims that he was physically and mentally abusive.

But according to Barresi, a former adult film actor turned P.I. and Hollywood fixer whose previous clients include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise and Sylvester Stallone, he had embarked on an ‘unwavering quest for the truth’ about Depp, even if the findings were not what Heard’s lawyers wanted.

Barresi was first hired by Heard’s team in July 2019 to turn up information that could be useful against Depp, ahead of both defamation trials in the UK and the US.

Depp ultimately lost the 2020 libel case heard at the High Court in London against a UK newspaper which had branded him a ‘wife-beater’, with a judge ruling he had put Heard in fear of her life.
In his new book, ‘Johnny Depp’s Accidental Fixer’, Paul Barresi, 74, reveals his shock at the tremendous amount of support towards the actor amid his legal battle against ex-wife Amber Heard

In his new book, ‘Johnny Depp’s Accidental Fixer’, Paul Barresi, 74, reveals his shock at the tremendous amount of support towards the actor amid his legal battle against ex-wife Amber Heard

But back in the US, a second libel trial in Virginia against Heard ruled in Depp’s favor, with a jury awarding him a total of $15million – $10million in compensation and $5million in punitive damages.

Barresi does not specify which case he was working on, only that he was given the instructions to ‘delve into the life and history of Johnny Depp and uncover evidence of his alleged physical abuse towards women’.