Amber Heard's lawyers accused Johnny Depp of trying to submit her nudes as evidence for their defamation trial, report says

• Heard's lawyers said Depp tried to submit "irrelevant personal matters" as trial evidence, The Daily Beast reported.
• Among the evidence were "nude pictures" of Heard, her lawyers said, according to The Daily Beast.
• They were ultimately not put forward in the highly-publicized defamation trial, which ended in June.

Amber Heard's lawyers accused Johnny Depp of trying to submit her nude photos as evidence for their defamation trial, The Daily Beast reported, citing newly-unsealed court documents.

More than 6,000 pages of court documents released over the weekend showed new claims submitted by Heard and Depp's lawyers in preparation for their trial in Fairfax, Virginia, which ran from April 11 to June 1, The Daily Beast reported.  

In the documents, Heard's legal team accused Depp of trying to submit "irrelevant personal matters" as evidence, including Heard's "nude pictures" and her "brief stint as an exotic dancer years before she met Mr. Depp." 

The nudes were not brought up in the trial. Representatives for Depp and Heard did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Insider has also contacted Fairfax County Circuit Court for confirmation on the report.

In 2014, Heard became one of the victims of a large-scale leak of celebrity nudes. More than 50 of her personal photos were leaked in the scandal, among them a picture of herself nude with a message to Depp. It is unclear whether her hacked images are the same ones Heard's legal team is referring to in the court documents. 

Revenge porn, the act of nonconsensually sharing explicit photos online, has increasingly been a concern for celebrities, and it disproportionately affects women.

There is currently no federal revenge-porn law, but more than 40 states have banned it, according to the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. 

Earlier this year Depp took Heard to court over a December 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she implied, without naming him, that she was a survivor of sexual and domestic violence. Heard then countersued.

During the trial, Heard's former nurse, Erin Falati, told jurors that Heard told her she didn't feel supported by Depp during the leak, which Falati said caused her a lot of anxiety.

"I remember a general sense of Ms. Heard being very upset her phone was hacked because there was very sensitive information in it, and I feel that she was having a difficult time calming after that," Falati told the court via prerecorded testimony.

On June 1, jurors found both Depp and Heard liable for defaming each other, but awarded Depp more in damages.