Last summer, for a good month and a half, actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard dominated the news. Their defamation case was broadcast almost daily from Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia, with millions of people across the globe tuning in to watch.
Depp, 59, had sued the Aquaman star, 37, for $50m over a Washington Post article she had written, titled: "I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change." While the article does not mention Depp by name, his lawyers said it falsely implied he physically and sexually abused Heard while they were together.
The couple had met in 2009 on the set of the film The Rum Diary and reportedly started dating by the start of 2012. They eventually married during a private ceremony in 2015, but Heard filed for divorce a year later.
