Amber Heard is seen cuddling up to Elon Musk in the private elevator to Johnny Depp's penthouse in exclusive new images obtained by DailyMail.com

Heard is seen with Musk's arm draped around her, as they ride the elevator at the luxury downtown LA apartment complex where she once lived with Depp

The actress appears to be wearing just a swimsuit and cover-up

Musk has insisted Heard already split from Depp by the time they began seeing one another and their relationship didn't become romantic 'until some time later'

But Depp accuses the pair of starting an affair one month into his 2015 marriage, with Heard not filing for divorce until May 2016

Depp, 55, moved out of the Eastern Columbia Building a month after the split but Heard carried on living there until December 2016, DailyMail.com understands

Depp has subpoenaed billionaire Musk for his text messages as part of a $50 million defamation case against Heard

Amber Heard is seen cuddling up to Elon Musk in the private elevator to Johnny Depp's penthouse in exclusive new images that will drag the Tesla mogul deeper into the couple's explosive legal battle.

Musk insists the 33-year-old actress had already split from Depp by the time they began seeing one another and their relationship didn't become romantic 'until some time later'.

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However the Pirates of the Caribbean star accuses the pair of starting an affair one month into his 2015 marriage and has subpoenaed the billionaire for his text messages as part of a $50 million defamation case against Heard.

Now, surveillance camera images obtained by DailyMail.com capture his ex-wife cozying up to Musk as they ride the elevator at the luxury downtown LA apartment complex where she once lived with Depp.

Amber Heard is seen cuddling up to Elon Musk in the private elevator to Johnny Depp's penthouse in exclusive new images that will drag the Tesla mogul deeper into the couple's explosive legal battle

Musk insists the 33-year-old actress had already split from Depp by the time they began seeing one another and their relationship didn't become romantic 'until some time later'

Now, surveillance camera images obtained by DailyMail.com capture his ex-wife cozying up to Musk as they ride the elevator at the luxury downtown LA apartment complex where she once lived with Depp. The Space X inventor, 48, can been seen in one image draping his arms around Heard, who appears to be wearing just a swimsuit and a towel

The Pirates of the Caribbean star accuses his ex-wife of trying to frame him as an abuser

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The Space X inventor, 48, can been seen in one image draping his arms around Heard, who appears to be wearing just a swimsuit and what appears to be a towel.

She reciprocates the affection by bending over to place her hands on the leg or waist of Musk, who is in a dark T-shirt and pants or jeans.

There are no timestamps or clues as to when the pictures were taken however security guards have previously gone on record to state that Musk visited Heard on multiple occasions before and after she filed for divorce in May 2016.

Depp, 55, moved out of the Eastern Columbia Building a month after the split but Heard carried on living there until December 2016, DailyMail.com understands.

The Oscar-nominated actor owned five penthouses at the up-scale address, all accessed by the private elevator seen in the images, but later sold them for a combined $10.88 million.

He and Heard agreed to a $7 million divorce settlement in August 2016 and seemed to have put their acrimonious divorce behind them until she penned an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing her experiences as a domestic violence survivor.

The article did not mention Depp by name but he filed for defamation last March, saying it led to speculation that he was the abuser and caused him to lose the role of Captain Jack Sparrow.

There are no timestamps or clues as to when the pictures were taken however security guards have previously gone on record to state that Musk visited Heard on multiple occasions before and after she filed for divorce in May 2016

Depp, 55, moved out of the Eastern Columbia Building (pictured) a month after the split but Heard carried on living there until December 2016, DailyMail.com understands

His legal action further accused Heard of 'spending time in a new relationship' with Musk almost immediately after their wedding in February 2015.

'Only one calendar month after Mr. Depp and Ms. Heard were married - while Mr. Depp was out of the country, filming in March 2015 - Eastern Columbia Building personnel testified that Ms. Heard received Musk ''late at night'' at Mr. Depp's penthouse,' the suit alleges.

'Specifically, Ms. Heard asked staff at the Eastern Columbia Building to give her ''friend Elon'' access to the building's parking garage and the penthouse elevator ''late at night,'' and they testified that they did so.

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'Building staff would then see Ms. Heard's ''friend Elon'' leaving the building the next morning.'

Depp doubled down by subpoenaing Musk for any texts, emails, letters or communications he exchanged with Heard during their marriage or anything mentioning alleged incidents of domestic violence.

He specifically wants to know what she told the tech tycoon about the May 21, 2016 blowout fight that resulted in Heard seeking a restraining order, accusing Depp of hurling a phone at her and beating her.

Depp has always argued that he was the victim of an 'elaborate hoax' instigated by his ex-wife, who 'faked' her injuries with makeup

Depp has always argued that he was the victim of an 'elaborate hoax' instigated by his ex-wife, who 'faked' her injuries with makeup.

Around two months after the break-up Heard was linked to Musk in tabloid reports suggesting they spent a weekend together in Miami.

The following April she was photographed holding hands with the dad-of-six, who divorced Westworld actress Talulah Riley in January 2015.

However the relationship was on and off until the couple finally called it quits in 2018.

Heard's lawyers have previously described Depp's allegation of infidelity as 'frivolous' and an attempt to 'silence' the Aquaman actress.

Sources close to Musk described it as 'irrelevant nonsense' and declined to comment beyond reiterating a statement issued by the entrepreneur's rep last March.

'Elon and Amber didn't start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent,' Musk's spokesman said. 'Their relationship didn't become romantic until some time later.'

Sources close to Musk (pictured in Depp's elevator) described it as 'irrelevant nonsense' and declined to comment beyond reiterating a statement issued by the entrepreneur's rep last March

'Elon and Amber didn't start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent,' Musk's spokesman said. 'Their relationship didn't become romantic until some time later'

Musk made a further cameo last week in London's High Court where Depp is also suing News Group Newspapers over a 2018 article in The Sun newspaper that described him as 'wife beater'.

The court was read a text message from Depp to a friend that made an apparent reference to Musk: 'Brother, I'm sorry to even ask but she sucked mollusc's crooked d*** and he gave her some sh**y lawyers.

'I have no mercy left of what I thought was love for this gold-digging, low level, dime-a-dozen mushy, pointless, flappy fish market.'

Actor James Franco is another A-lister caught up in the ex-couple's legal war after he was pictured riding the same elevator with Heard on May, 22, 2016, the night after her infamous dust-up with Depp.

Heard's legal team said Franco once lived in the same apartment complex and was simply taking the elevator at the same time.

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But Depp's lawyers hit him with a subpoena last July and want to grill him over what the pair discussed and whether she had any visible bruises.

Caught up: James Franco is being subpoenaed by lawyers for Johnny Depp after video shows that he was with Amber Heard on May 21, 2016 (Heard and Franco above)

Depp and Heard met on the set of The Rum Diary, back in 2011, married four years later – then split in a little over a year amid a slew of blood curdling domestic violence allegations and tabloid headlines.

Heard wrote in her December 2018 op-ed: 'I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out.'

That prompted Depp to file for defamation in Virginia, where the Washington Post is based, stating: 'Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator.'

Heard responded with a 300-page filing of her own, cataloging the years of alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of 'the monster'. The case is due to be heard in August.

'Elon Musk and Amber Heard seem not to know that Mr. Depp's penthouse elevator button that says 'M' does not take you to Mars,' Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman said of our exclusive pictures.

'Musk - aka Penthouse Guy - has publicly denied sneaking up to see Ms Heard a month after her marriage to Johnny but that will soon be put to the test, as will her entire abuse hoax.

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'As the evidence mounts up, who was where, and knew what, when?'