Johnny Depp’s hotshot lawyer Camille Vasquez has firmly quashed long-running rumors that she dated her A-list client — saying the Hollywood leading man is “not my type.”
“I would never,” Vasquez told Extra, two years after feverish rumors abounded as she helped the actor win his highly publicized $100 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
“Let me just go on the record here: never dated Johnny Depp. Never would date Johnny Depp,” she said, while stressing that they are still friends in regular contact.
“I think he’s a lovely person, just … he’s not my type.”
Vasquez, 40, said the rumors were so strong at the time that she even called her parents to make sure they “knew definitively” that she was not romantically involved with the actor.
In fact, the attorney not only didn’t have the hots for Depp — she was never even a fan of his films.
“I have not seen him in ‘Pirates [of the Caribbean],’” she said of the hit series of movies in which Depp played the beloved Captain Jack Sparrow.
“Admittedly, never seen him, really, in any film … Maybe ‘Chocolat?’” she said of the 2000 romance movie with Juliette Binoche.
Still, Vasquez admitted being impressed by the actor when they first met — but just by how different he was.
“After maybe 30, 40 minutes of speaking with him, I remember having an out-of-body experience and looking at him and thinking, ‘He views the world so differently than I do,’” she said.
“He definitely uses a different part of his brain. He’s such an artist.”
Vasquez was at the helm of Depp’s trial, during which she questioned Heard several times on the stand and also headed the actress’s cross-examination.
Depp sued his ex-wife, Heard, for accusing him of abuse in an op-ed published by The Washington Post. In the piece, she referred to herself as someone who “spoke up against sexual violence” and as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
The court came to a close on June 1, 2022, with the jury awarding Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
In the wake of the trial, Vasquez, a University of Southern California graduate, received countless television offers but chose to stay on as an associate with firm Brown Rudnick.
