Morgan Tremaine

Judge Penney Azcarate – during a lunch break in the Fairfax trial -- struck down TMZ's emergency motion seeking to prevent former field assignment manager ...

The trial — which is in its sixth week — is expected to conclude testimony by Thursday. Jury deliberations could begin as early as Friday — after closing arguments. He also described getting paparazzi to take photos of an “alleged bruise” on Heard’s face after the actress filed a temporary restraining order against Depp in May 2016. “Whether that breached a nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Tremaine and [TMZ’s parent company] EHM is not germane to this matter and can be litigated in a separate matter if EHM so chooses.”

The leaked footage of Johnny Depp's "kitchen cabinets" video that TMZ received didn't show Amber Heard "seemingly snickering," ex-staffer Morgan Tremaine ...

He said the beginning where #AmberHeardsets up the camera and the end where “she seemingly snickering and looks at the camera” was not in the one we recd. Just as TMZ asserted, Tremaine testified that he did not know the source of the video transferred through the organization’s email tip line. “Journalists’ promises of confidentiality are vital to reporting the news,” TMZ’s attorneys wrote in a 7-page motion. Tremaine testifes the video of#JohnnyDeppslamming the kitchen cabinets TMZ recd was shorter than the one played in trial. It was much shorter than the video we had received— the video that’s been played in this trial,” Tremaine testified. That part was not present in what we received.”

Celebrity news site TMZ has filed an emergency motion to prevent a former employee from testifying at the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial.

EHM Productions, Inc., the owners and operators of TMZ, filed the emergency motion on Tuesday May 24 to prevent Tremaine from testifying. According to his LinkedIn page, Tremaine worked at TMZ for three years, starting out as a video producer before becoming an assignment manager and leaving in August 2017. They continued: "TMZ promised this source that it would maintain their confidentiality and would not disclose their name or other information about them. Lawyers for celebrity news outlet have intervened to prevent Morgan Tremaine from testifying and potentially revealing an anonymous source, on the grounds of "journalist's privilege." The footage appeared to have been shot by Heard. Depp and Heard are currently reaching the end of a $50 million defamation trial which has seen several notable moments and witness testimony that have gone viral online.

Morgan Tremaine, a former employee of celebrity tabloid TMZ, appeared on Johnny Depp's witness list for the defamation trial between him and former wife ...

It continues, "Here, it appears that Plaintiff seeks TMZ's confidential source information purely for purposes of impeaching the credibility of Defendant and not because the information has anything directly to do with the elements of the underlying defamation case." "According to a published report, TMZ's former employee, Morgan Tremaine, has been called to testify at trial imminently on behalf of Plaintiff Johnny Depp regarding information provided to TMZ by a confidential source, in violation of TMZ's and the source's rights. As per Variety, the outlet's attorneys state, "TMZ promised this source that it would maintain their confidentiality and would not disclose their name or other information about them. Mr. Tremaine purports to know the identity of TMZ's confidential source, his information would be based on rumor and conjecture. It's also potentially damaging for TMZ as no media organization would want a former staffer to go rogue and start exposing what are supposed to be confidential sources," the source added. "The most fascinating thing about forcing Morgan onto the stand is whether or not he flips on Heard and expose whether she was a source," a case snitch told OK!.

'She's [Heard] seemingly snickering, and looks at the camera. That part was not present in what we received,' said the former TMZ staffer Tremaine, ...

The owners of TMZ wrote in their court application that they promised their video source that they would not reveal any information about them, and that "TMZ makes such promises of confidentiality from time to time so that it may publish information in the public interest, and it relies on the journalist's privilege to do so." "I saw that there was a discrepancy with the video that was shown here and the video that I know I've received. On Wednesday, May 25, a former TMZ employee, Morgan Tremaine, testified in the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial, claiming that he approached Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, about a video that was being used as evidence in the trial.