"Reformed" Girlboss Camille Vasquez is now supposedly championing #metoo
Camille Vasquez represented Johnny Depp, a man she knew was found to be a wife beater by the High Court in England. Yet she said, “I believed in his innocence.”
Now she’s rebranded herself as a champion of #metoo in the music industry. Smh in disbelief.https://t.co/6UaGrrlbSp
- Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) April 14, 2023
Former record exec Dorothy Carvello filed a lawsuit last year against the estate of Ahmet Ertegun, the late co-founder and longtime chief executive of Atlantic Records, and the label for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. She wants to take on #metoo in the music industry.
But for some reason, one of the lawyers she hired is Camille Vasquez. The same Camille Vasquez who said, "There are no #metoos" at the Depp-Heard trial. Camille also accompanied Dorothy with her interview with The Times, which the article also includes.
From the article:
Vasquez knows that since the Depp case everything she does becomes instantly high profile. “People are watching the cases I take on, the causes that are important to me, and I take that really seriously, especially being a woman in this industry. I’m an advocate for people I believe in whose stories need to be told in a court of law. Johnny Depp’s story needed to be told. Dorothy’s story needs to be told.”
Vasquez has been a practising attorney for 13 years and sees no contradiction in moving from representing Depp to representing Carvello. “I believed in Mr Depp; I believed in his innocence. We proved that. We also proved that he was actually the victim of domestic abuse. Domestic violence doesn’t have a gender; abuse victims don’t have genders. In this case, I believe Dorothy Carvello.”
It is not enough, she says, for people to cry #MeToo. Cases cannot be decided, and lives fundamentally changed, on the basis of allegations alone. “There needs to be an investigation, I think that’s what #MeToo calls for. You can’t be guilty by accusation. There needs to be a process by which victims and the accused have a right to have the evidence evaluated by a jury of their peers and their stories told. That’s what it was calling for - accountability, investigations, justice… Mr Depp vehemently denied that he abused Miss Heard or any woman for that matter, anyone except himself as he has so poignantly described. The jury agreed.”
Vasquez tells me the celebrity status bestowed on her since the Depp case makes her uneasy. “When you lose anonymity you realise how precious it actually is,” she says. “To some extent the loss of my anonymity is nothing compared with the artists that Dorothy worked with or the celebrity clients that I represent. Johnny said to me one time, ‘I live my life behind windows - car windows, train windows, plane windows.’ And that can be really traumatic for a human being to go through, especially if you didn’t seek it out.”
Never forget:
Camille Vasquez was Johnny Depp’s lawyer in the US. During the trial, she said there are “no #metoos”. One year later and she’s a #metoo champion in the music industry. She really is a feminist hero! pic.twitter.com/hm2hTOYCC0
- Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) April 15, 2023
Camille Vasquez really said, ‘when I grow up I want to protect famous abusers and carry water for the patriarchy 👧🏻’ pic.twitter.com/qBcYtOlw6w
- Chocolate (@Chocolate_Notre) April 13, 2023
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