Johnny Depp is one of Hollywood’s greatest actors and the recipient of numerous awards and was the driving force behind many iconic characters on the silver screen. In 2015, Johnny Depp married Aquaman actor Amber Heard and the two eventually ended their marriage in 2017. And now Johnny Depp has sued his ex-wife for 50 million USD for public defamation. What happened between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp? Read on for a full and detailed timeline:
2009
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard first met on the set of “The Rum Diary” in 2009. Johnny Depp plays Paul Kemp, a journalist who falls in love with Chenault, played by Amber Heard.
2011-2012
Johnny Depp split from his partner, Vanessa Paradis, with whom he had two children, John Christopher and model, Lily-Rose Depp. Amber Heard broke up with her partner Tasya Van Ree. As Insider reports, Heard and Depp began dating “around late 2011 or early 2012.”
2014
2014 saw the engagement of the two actors as reported by People Magazine. Johnny Depp himself confirmed this in an interview given to Daily Mail.
2015
The couple got married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles along with their close friends and family and had a lavish ceremony on Depp’s private island in the Bahamas.
2016
The whirlwind marriage began to deteriorate as soon as it started. On May 27, 2016, Amber Heard attended a courthouse with a purple bruise to her face, filed for a restraining order against Depp. She cited that Depp physically abused her during their relationship and that she received bruises from a recent incident where Depp threw a phone at her face. A police spokesman told People magazine that Heard’s allegations were baseless. Depp denied through his legal representatives that his ex-wife was “attempting to secure a premature financial settlement by alleging abuse.”
Depp and Heard released a joint statement saying, “Our relationship was extremely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. Never physical. or there was no intention of emotional harm”, as reported by Vulture.
Due to the lack of a premarital arrangement, Heard received $7 million from Depp as part of his divorce settlement, which he donated to the Children’s Hospital.
2017
The couple’s divorce was finalized and their marriage officially ended.
2018
Amber Heard wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing how reputable institutions and abusers protect women in domestic abuse lawsuits. Depp was never named. Disney announced that it is casting Depp as Jack Sparrow from The Pirates of the Caribbean.
2019
Johnny Depp files a US$50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard. The filing said it was part of her “detailed fraud to generate positive publicity,” after which Heard detailed the number of instances when she was physically and verbally abused.
July, 2020
Newsgroup Newspapers’ The Sun Magazine published an article in 2018 labeling Depp as a “wife beater”. The actor filed suit against the publisher and the executive editor. Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis both made statements in favor of Depp. The trial lasted three weeks where she alleged that Heard had affairs while she was married, which the actress denied.
November, 2020
The court ruled against Depp, and Sun Magazine called her a “wife beater.” The actor was then asked to leave his role as Grindelwald from the Fantastic Beasts franchise. The Hollywood Reporter claimed that Depp would be fully compensated with an 8-figure sum.
March, 2021
Depp’s appeal to challenge the High Court’s decision was denied a second time by the Court of Appeals.
April, 2022
Depp & Heard’s $100 million lawsuit for defamation began on April 11 in Fairfax, Virginia. As Page Six reports, several stars such as Paul Bettany, from WandaVision, Elon Musk, James Franco and Ellen Barkin are testifying in court. The case began with Ben Chew and J.J. Benjamin Rottenborn, who represented Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, respectively.
Depp has testified about his experiences growing up with an abusive mother, his struggles with substance abuse, and his tumultuous relationship with Heard. Depp admitted in his testimony that he and Heard had an argument during their relationship, but added, “I myself never got to the point of killing Miss. Neither did I listen in any way nor did I spend my life.” I’ve never hit a woman.”
During the six weeks of testimony, Heard’s lawyers argued that he told the truth and that his comments were covered as free speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Throughout the case, jurors listened to recordings of the couple’s feud and saw graphic photos of Depp’s bloody finger. He said that the upper part of his finger was broken when Heard threw a bottle of vodka at him in 2015.
Heard denied injuring Depp’s finger and said that Depp sexually assaulted her that night with a bottle of wine. He said that he killed her only to defend himself or his sister. Sakshi was livestreamed widely on social media, attracting large audiences to hear details about the couple’s troubled relationship.
2 June 2022
A Virginia jury ruled Wednesday that actor Amber Heard defames ex-husband Johnny Depp in a six-week trial that included clear and graphic evidence and testimony detailing the former Hollywood couple’s sour relationship. The jury also ruled in Heard’s favor in some aspects of her defense against Depp. The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages from Heard. The panel awarded USD 2 million in damages.
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