Witness

Elizabeth Marz

155 lines of testimony

Bio

Elizabeth Marz is a friend of Raquel Pennington, a longtime associate of Amber Heard, with limited direct acquaintance with Heard herself — having met her fewer than four times between 2012 and 2015. She was staying as a guest at the Eastern Columbia Building on the night of May 21, 2016, when a disputed incident occurred across the penthouse units. She had no professional relationship to either party and testified as a lay witness to events she observed firsthand that evening.

Testimony Impact

Marz testified as a Heard witness about the May 21, 2016 penthouse incident at the Eastern Columbia Building, placing herself inside penthouse 5 when Depp arrived. She described Depp bursting through the door appearing intoxicated, wielding a spilling magnum wine bottle, and shouting "get your bitch out of here," causing her to flee in fear to a communal area. After reuniting with the group in penthouse 1, she observed Heard with a red, swollen face on the right side around the eye — marks she testified were absent when she had seen Heard earlier that afternoon. On cross-examination, Vasquez extracted the key concession that Marz did not witness Depp directly abuse Heard, limiting the evidentiary weight of her account. Brook's redirect introduced Exhibit 13 — photographs of Heard's injuries, a broken bed frame, hallway wine staining, and broken picture frames — anchoring Marz's observations in contemporaneous physical evidence.

Notable Quotes From The Record

“he looked wasted. He was holding a very large bottle of wine, looked like some sort of magnum bottle of wine, which was spilling all over the place. And as he opened the door, what I remember was he mumbled, "get your bitch out of here."”

Central eyewitness account of Depp's entry — intoxication, wine bottle, and the statement that became a focal point of the incident.

“the way it felt like he was coming after me, almost felt like, from where I was standing, I felt like he was charging towards me, and I was scared and it was - it felt - it felt, yeah, combative.”

Marz pushes back against Vasquez's suggestion that only Depp's words were combative, insisting his physical entry and energy were equally threatening.

“I just remember she looked really upset and disheveled, and her hair was a mess, and she had a swollen face. Red She had a red, swollen face.”

Corroborating observation of Heard's physical condition immediately after the incident, consistent with Heard's account of being struck.

“I didn't witness, firsthand, Johnny abusing Amber.”

Key concession on cross-examination that limits the evidentiary weight of Marz's testimony — she observed the aftermath, not the alleged assault itself.

“it scared the shit out of me because he was wasted and I screaming. So that's why I ran out. If there's a grown-ass man coming at you and saying, "Get your bitch out of here," swinging a magnum-size bottle of wine, I'm sure -- I don't know what anyone do - I can't say what I - anyone would do, but I ran out.”

Marz's emphatic final answer restates her account in plain terms, underscoring the fear she experienced regardless of whether direct abuse occurred.

“the door, like, burst open and Johnny came charging in and screamed, again, holding the magnum-size bottle of wine, you know, flailing it around, looked intoxicated, kind of stumbling, and screamed, "get your bitch out of here," as he ran in my direction”

Core eyewitness account of Depp's entry — intoxication, weapon-like use of wine bottle, and threatening language toward Marz.

“I just remember being scared and not wanting to leave that area until, like, I was clear that there was -- that I wasn't going to be attacked.”

Establishes Marz's genuine fear of Depp as an independent witness with no personal stake in the outcome.

“It looked like she had been hit somewhere. It was definitely not from crying. She had markings on her face.”

Marz's lay opinion distinguishing injury from emotional response, directly supporting Heard's account of physical assault.

“That I really remember.”

Closes the examination by anchoring Marz's observation of Heard's injuries in her high-confidence memory — defense's final word on her reliability.

Key Moments

Marz places herself in penthouse 5 on May 21, 2016, with Pennington present, and describes hearing commotion grow progressively closer before the door opened forcefully — establishing her as a direct, on-scene witness from the outset of the incident.