DIG Johnny Depp & Adam Waldman backstory links etc

FIRST OFF – searched Lionsgate and Depp and found this:

Johnny Depp’s ‘City of Lies’ Acquired for China – Variety

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/johnny-depps...

May 09, 2018 · Lionsgate ’s Johnny Depp -starring movie “ City of Lies ” has been licensed to startup
distributor Sweet Charm Media for release in China. The deal …
For Lion’sgate alone foun this recent:

Lionsgate Takes $50 Million Charge in Q4 Due to ...

https://www.thewrap.com/lionsgate-takes-50-million...

May 21, 2020 · Lionsgate Takes $50 Million Charge in Q4 Due to Coronavirus Pandemic The charge
included, among other things, $46.0 million reflected in direct operating expenses from …

Giustra/Lionsgate:

Frank Giustra CM OBC (born August 1957) is a Canadian businessman, mining

financier and philanthropist, who also founded Lionsgate Entertainment. From 2001
to 2007, he was the chairman of the merchant banking firm, Endeavour Financial,
which financed mining companies. He is the CEO of Fiore Group of Companies.

Frank Giustra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Giustra
More links Giustra:

1. Lionsgate Founder Hits Back at New York Times Over Clinton ...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lionsgate...

Lionsgate founder Frank Giustra on Monday unloaded on The New York Times for an April 23 article
alleging links between himself, the Clinton Foundation, a 2005 Russian uranium deal and efforts to...
2. Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra providing luxe hideout ...
https://pagesix.com/2020/01/12/canadian...
 Jan 12, 2020 · But multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told Page Six that the owner is
Giustra, 62, who made his fortune as a stockbroker, co-founded Hollywood studio Lionsgate —
producing flicks...
3. Frank Giustra's Pizzagate History - Civilian Intelligence ...
https://civilianintelligencenetwork.ca/2019/10/30/...

Oct 30, 2019 · Speaking of which, Giustra is also heavily involved in the entertainment industry, being the
founder of Lionsgate Entertainment and Sea to Sky Entertainment, a joint venture between Lionsgate
and Thunderbird Films, where he is a director and board-member. Lionsgate and Thunderbird were
involved with many other acquisitions and mergers .

Isnt ENDEAVOUR the name of WALDMAN’s Lobby firm???? Luuuv my Photographic

Memory right now~

1. It’s Official: Adam Waldman of The Endeavor Law ... - Medium

https://medium.com/@ninaandtito/its-official-adam...

Jul 05, 2018 · According to Foreign Agents Registration (FARA) papers filed June 29, 2018, Endeavor’s
connection with Rusal/Deripaska ended April 5, 2018, one …
2. Adam Waldman - Business Profile | The Endeavor Group ...
https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Adam-Waldman/565550232

Sep 10, 2019 · Adam Waldman , J.D. Co-Founder & President, The Endeavor Group Director, Indian
River Brewing Company and i5 Investments Mr. Waldman is the founder and President of the Endeavor
Group , where he oversees the firm's work and maintains direct involvement with Endeavor clients
regarding their transactional and regulatory affairs.
3. Adam Waldman, Founder, Endeavor Group | Spoke
www.spoke.com/people/adam-waldman-3e1429c09e597c100167864b

Adam Waldman, Founder and President Adam Waldman is Founder and President of the Endeavor
Group.
o Occupation: Founder
o Location: Washington, DC

ohhKAY THEN:

Twitter seeks to dismiss Frank Giustra’s lawsuit over ...

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/07/10/...

Jul 10, 2019 · The social media company has filed an application in response to a lawsuit by Frank
Giustra, the founder of Lionsgate Entertainment and CEO of the Fiore Group of Companies.
Here is a link to a photo I saved just now woth dates {am Anderspn visited Assange:

https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1085547019522007045/photo/1

Notes:

Christie Dembrowski – his sister and manager of his production co.. – dint
approve of AmberHeard marriage/no prenup

Vanessa Paradis – first wife/partner to Depp (12 years or so as I recall)

Hunter S. Thompson – a gigantic presence in Depps life per Rolling Stone

article (see below for link/paste)

Marlon Brando - Ditto

TMG his talent manager The Management Group – Waldman sued them

Bloom – hi entertainment lawyer

White – His forensic accountant

Depp has a (several?) Storage locker full of Memorabilia from Marilyn

Monroe and Marlon Brando.

Waldman aarrives in his life via I think Cher? The introduction at least~

Waldman sues TMG – a person Rayburn “Whistleblower” .testifies and they

are allowed to add more charges against TMG.

A snip from the Whistleblower article – pasted in full below:

Rayburn claims the company was using Depp's money to pay for Dembrowski's personal
expenses — including her daughter's wedding, trips and a new pool — without express
permission from the star. She says she asked Dembrowski about the spending on two occasions
and "her response was, 'he’s my brother. My money is his money. His money is mine.'”
(Dembrowksi's attorney Dylan Ruga did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Waldman says Rayburn's claims are more than just one half of a he-said-she-said equation.

"Mr. Depp’s forensic accountants Edward White & Co., and Miriam Fisher, head of the tax
department at Latham & Watkins, have independently verified many of the whistle-blower’s
most damning allegations," he says. "One is that Joel Mandel apparently altered financial
statements before they were submitted to banks. The Mandels’ purpose in securing over $75
million in bank loans in Mr. Depp’s name was to use the loans to pay themselves and Mr. Depp’s
entertainment lawyer over $70 million in improper contingent fees and to shovel out nearly $10
million to third parties as sham 'loans' without Mr. Depp’s knowledge."

"The idea that Johnny Depp borrowed 1 cent to pay TMG or his entertainment lawyer, Jake
Bloom, without his knowledge is libelous and beyond outrageously false," says Kump. "At trial,
Depp will be proven to be a liar and a fraud."

Other Key players listed above. I am trying to figure out aside from Money
if there is a Reason Waldman got into all THIS. I am thinking he is CIA
really.

The Rolling Stone Article – notice the watch on the photo of Waldman (my
CPT files-Surface) – see if thatg is Q Related~

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/the-trouble-with-johnny-
depp-666010/ The Trouble With Johnny Depp
Multimillion-dollar lawsuits, a haze of booze and hash, a
marriage gone very wrong and a lifestyle he can’t afford
– inside the trials of Johnny Depp
By

STEPHEN RODRICK

Stephen Rodrick
Reporter June 21, 2018 11:51AM ET
 Stephen Rodrick's Most Recent Stories

 ‘I Was More Resilient Than I Thought’: Author Eva Holland on Facing Our Fears
 Inside the Bestselling Medical Mystery ‘Hidden Valley Road’
 Jane Fonda Fights On
VIEW ALL

The Whistleblower article:

read: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/johnny-depps-
whistleblower-says-she-was-told-not-question-his-sisters-spending-
1008770 the paste of it:
Johnny Depp's "Whistle-Blower" Says She Was
Told Not to Question His Sister's Spending
www.hollywoodreporter.com

5 mins read

Getty Images

Johnny Depp's already ugly legal battle with his former business managers is getting even more
personal, as newly unsealed deposition testimony alleges The Management Group kept him in
the dark about his finances and claims the star's sister spent his money unchecked because his
business manager was afraid of her.

Depp sued in January, claiming TMG and its principals, Joel and Robert Mandel, treated his
money as their own and cost him millions. The Mandels countersued, claiming Depp knew he
was short of funds but continued to spend at a breakneck pace.
Ex-TMG employee Janine Rayburn says she believes the actor didn't know the state of his
finances — and the court on Friday gave Depp the green light to amend his lawsuit to include
claims arising from her testimony. The court also ruled that the transcript of Rayburn's March 2
deposition should be public.

TMG fought to keep those claims under seal, citing a confidentiality agreement and claiming the
woman lied under oath. L.A. Superior Court judge Teresa Beaudet found that contesting what is
the truth is the very heart of litigation and keeping all such arguments confidential is not in the
public interest.

Rayburn was an account manager at TMG from mid-2008 through the end of 2010, and handled
the day-to-day business for eight clients including Depp. She says her job entailed processing
bills, depositing checks, recording investments and meeting other client needs. "I do not believe
that Johnny was aware of his financial situation," Rayburn testified. "To my knowledge,
financial statements were not sent to him."

When cross-examined by TMG’s attorney Michael Kump, Rayburn testified that she did not
work on the team that prepared any cash flow analysis documents or budgets and did not have
personal knowledge as to whether they were sent to Depp

"The Court’s unsealing of whistle-blower testimony and the handwritten notes she took in 2010,
both of which the Mandels sought to block from public view, reveal a stew of unethical and
illegal acts," Depp's attorney Adam Waldman tells The Hollywood Reporter. "These acts include
Joel Mandel’s instructions to the whistle-blower, who served as Mr. Depp’s account manager for
two and a half years, to falsely notarize 'fake' documents and to alter numbers in his financial
statements, all of which instructions she repeatedly refused."

She claims one of those instructions was to notarize Depp's signature on a document when he
wasn't present. "I have no idea what the transaction was for," she said during her deposition. "It
was only the signature pages, so I couldn't tell."

Rayburn claims her refusal to commit those acts and her questions about the handling of Depp's
account got her fired, although at the time she was told it was because she "wasn't a good fit."
Her severance agreement shows she was paid $40,000; she agreed not to divulge confidential
information and the parties agreed not to disparage each another. 

TMG maintains that Rayburn is a "serial liar" who is disgruntled about her firing. "Under cross-
examination, Janine Rayburn fully admitted that she was not part of the team at TMG that
created Depp’s financial statements and that she has absolutely no personal knowledge regarding
what TMG told Depp about his finances," says attorney Kump. "Depp’s reliance on Rayburn’s
highly speculative statements is ridiculous. Indeed, the one conversation Rayburn claims to have
overheard while at TMG confirms that Depp and his closest advisers have been discussing
Depp’s tremendous spending problems for at least a decade."
Rayburn says she had a feeling she was going to be fired, so she made notes about things she
thought were "odd" with plans to tell Robert Mandel and Howard Leiter about her concerns. In
her notes, she calls the former an "idiot" and says he didn't believe her.

Also in those handwritten notes, entered as an exhibit, Rayburn calls Depp's sister

Christi Dembrowski a "nasty bitch" and says Mandel did whatever she wanted because he was
afraid of her. Dembrowski runs her brother's production company and brought TMG to him in
the late '90s, as part of a short list of other potential business managers for him to interview.

Rayburn claims the company was using Depp's money to pay for Dembrowski's personal
expenses — including her daughter's wedding, trips and a new pool — without express
permission from the star. She says she asked Dembrowski about the spending on two occasions
and "her response was, 'he’s my brother. My money is his money. His money is mine.'”
(Dembrowksi's attorney Dylan Ruga did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Waldman says Rayburn's claims are more than just one half of a he-said-she-said equation.

"Mr. Depp’s forensic accountants Edward White & Co., and Miriam Fisher, head of the tax
department at Latham & Watkins, have independently verified many of the whistle-blower’s
most damning allegations," he says. "One is that Joel Mandel apparently altered financial
statements before they were submitted to banks. The Mandels’ purpose in securing over $75
million in bank loans in Mr. Depp’s name was to use the loans to pay themselves and Mr. Depp’s
entertainment lawyer over $70 million in improper contingent fees and to shovel out nearly $10
million to third parties as sham 'loans' without Mr. Depp’s knowledge."

"The idea that Johnny Depp borrowed 1 cent to pay TMG or his entertainment lawyer, Jake
Bloom, without his knowledge is libelous and beyond outrageously false," says Kump. "At trial,
Depp will be proven to be a liar and a fraud."

Further, a TMG spokesman called claims that Mandel was afraid to defy Dembrowski "absurd"
and questioned why Depp would want Rayburn's testimony to be public while fighting that of his
former reps. "It's more than ironic that Johnny Depp and his attorneys are relying on the
testimony of a low-level employee who lied numerous times but filed motions late Friday to
quash testimony from two of Depp's closest advisors and critical witnesses in the case, Jake
Bloom and UTA's Tracy Jacobs."

Waldman says that argument is irrelevant. "We would not stop anyone from testifying in this
fraud case," he says. "The suggestion that a common motion to limit an overbroad subpoena
request bears any resemblance to the Mandels' failed attempts to muzzle and then hide a whistle-
blower's testimony regarding their illegal conduct is absurd."

Depp unceremoniously ended his relationship with TMG in 2016, shortly after the firm advised
him to start liquidating real estate assets to pay his bills. He then hired White, who discovered
the alleged misconduct while reviewing the actor's finances.
Depp claims TMG cost him $8 million in unnecessary tax penalties and fees, loaned without
permission $10 million of his money to parties close to him, secured a $12.5 million hard money
loan with his residuals and failed to repay itself for a $5 million bridge loan it issued without his
knowledge, which triggered nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings on his Hollywood Hills home.
While TMG maintains it did everything it could to keep the star financially afloat and Depp was
aware of the situation.

It's too early to definitively say how Beaudet will handle this case, but her recent decision
favoring transparency is a strong indication that much of what plays out leading up to the 2018
trial will be public.