Depp’s att’y has own fans
Johnny Depp’s glamorous lawyer Camille Vasquez is gaining her own fan following.
The 37-year-old attorney has been garnering attention and praise for her tough cross-examination of Amber Heard on Tuesday.
Depp supporters have been lining up outside the Fairfax, Va., courtroom to see or hug Vasquez, and videos of her online are racking up hundreds of millions of views.
As an associate at high-profile law firm Brown Rudnic, which is representing Depp in his defamation suit against Heard, Vasquez has questioned witnesses throughout the trial.
But the brunette, who wore a stylish white suit for Heard’s cross-examination, caught eyes as she sparred with the actress on the stand.
Vasquez launched the interrogation by asking Heard about her claim that Depp violated her with a bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon during a fight in March 2015.
“You’re the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, isn’t that right, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez asked. “You weren’t scared of him at all, were you?”
“I didn’t assault Johnny in Australia. I didn’t assault Johnny ever,” Heard said.
Vasquez also pressed Heard on whether she had edited photos of herself with bruises.
“I never touched a photo,” Heard insisted.
In another tense moment that Depp fans have latched onto, Vasquez appeared to needle the actress by suggesting Depp helped her snag her role in “Aquaman.”
“No, Miss Vasquez. I got myself that role by auditioning,” Heard snapped.
The lawyer won praise for her aggressive and successful tactic online — particularly from Depp’s fans, who called her a “badass” and a “queen.”
A TikTok of the moment got 17.9 million views in less than 24 hours. Clips with the hashtag #CamilleVasquez have a collective 541.8 million views on the platform.
A video of Vasquez and Depp hugging in court also went viral on Wednesday, sparking rumors about the nature of their relationship.
When asked by TMZ about a possible romance between them on Tuesday, Vasquez just smiled.
She’s also winning praise from lawyers, including one prominent attorney who called her the “unrivaled star” of the trial.