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Deposition in Casey Anthony civil suit released

More than 100 pages of the January deposition of Casey Anthony were released Tuesday.
 
The deposition is part of a defamation lawsuit between Anthony and Zenaida Gonzalez, who's suing Anthony after Anthony said a woman by the same name kidnapped her daughter in 2008.
 
For more than two hours, attorneys for Anthony and Gonzalez exchanged words during the taped deposition that often became heated.
 
Anthony claimed she met a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez at Universal Orlando in 2006.
 
When Anthony's 2-year-old daughter Caylee disappeared in 2008, Anthony said Zenaida Gonzalez kidnapped the girl after she was dropped off at the Sawgrass Apartments in Orlando.
 
In the deposition Anthony admitted she pulled Gonzalez's name and the location she last saw her daughter off the top of her head when she was confronted by investigators.
 
"So you have no explanation other than you just happened to blurt out this place that you hadn't been to in two years – according to you," Gonzalez attorney Keith Mitnik asked Anthony in the deposition.
 
"Yes sir," Anthony responded.
 
"And the name of someone you hadn't seen in years," Mitnik asked.
 
"Yes sir," she said.
 
Mitnik continued to question Anthony.
 
"Was the whole story about Zenaida having Caylee made up and untrue?" he asked.
 
"I've already established that with law enforcement. That was already established in court. There's already a verdict to that nature, sir. I'm not going to answer that question again," Anthony said.
 
In 2011 Anthony was tried on first-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter. She was acquitted of the murder charges.
 
When Mitnik began asking about details of her daughter, Anthony said, "At the advice of my counsel I decline to answer any questions about my daughter, and I will walk out of this room."
 
In the deposition Anthony said the nickname "Zanny the Nanny" wasn't a reference to the drug Xanax, and she said she never gave Caylee the drug to make her go to sleep.
When Anthony was asked during the deposition why she made up the name Zenaida Gonzalez, she responded that it was her personal choice.