The biggest and most spectacular tabloid event of 2022 was the events and the litigation process between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. We learned all their private secrets one by one; maybe they weren't ashamed, but we were.
Johnny Depp or John Christopher Depp II, born on June 9, 1963, in Kentucky, is the son of a waiter mother and a civil engineer father.
He dropped out of school at the age of 15, dreaming of becoming a rock musician. He also states that his mother and father's decision to divorce during this period affected him psychologically very badly. Johnny Depp, who started playing guitar in many music groups including The Kids after leaving school, made his first marriage to Lori Anne Allison, the sister of The Kids' vocalist, on December 24, 1983. This music group later changed its name to Six Gun Method and broke up before Depp could reach the stage of entering the studio due to the problems he had during the marriage process.
After the band broke up, Johnny Depp, who sold ballpoint pens and similar products for a while to support both himself and his wife, went to Los Angeles with his wife during this period. Meeting the famous actor Nicolas Cage here, literally changed his life. On the occasion of this acquaintance, he starred in the movie Elm Street Nightmare in 1984. About two years later, they decided to end their marriage with Lori Anne Allison.
Johnny Depp took his first big step towards becoming famous by starring in the popular television series 21 Jump Street in 1987. The 1990s was the period when he truly shined. Depp, who had the opportunity to work with the famous director Tim Burton in this process, took the lead roles in many films, especially Edward Makaseller. Especially Edward Makaseller created a very important turning point in his career. After this production, he began to be known as an actor with a serious, mysterious, and unique style. Likewise, in the following process, he always preferred roles and productions that would surprise the audience and critics.
Johnny Depp, who continued to increase his popularity by acting in the Tim Burton film Ed Wood in 1994, had the opportunity to play opposite Al Pacino in 1997 in the film The Mole. Over the years, he has made nine different films in total with one of his closest friends, Tim Burton.
And also; Depp's roles in many famous movies such as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny & Joon, Arizona Dream, Charlie's Chocolate Factory, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Public Enemies, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd: The Evil Barber of Fleet Street and Rango made him one of the most famous actors in the world.
Films starring Johnny Depp, who has been nominated for three Oscars throughout his career, have grossed over $7.6 billion in total. Some of the productions in which he acted alone managed to pass the $3 million revenue threshold. The famous actor, who was also named in the Guinness World Records with a profit of 75 million dollars in 2012, was awarded the title of Disney Legend in 2015. In short, Johnny Depp has progressed in his career for many years with confident steps and making very serious profits.
However, we have watched together that his career has been on the decline, especially in the last few years, due to the problems he has experienced in his private life and his sensational marriage to Amber Heard.
How Many Marriages Did Johnny Depp Have?
As a matter of fact, the fact that Johnny Depp's love life does not fall into the headlines of the tabloids is not a new phenomenon. After gaining fame, the famous actor occupied the agenda of the tabloids for a while with every relationship he had. After breaking up with Lori Anne Allison, whom he was married to for about two years, he started dating Sherilyn Fenn, whom we know from the Twin Peaks series, in the late 1980s. Many years later, we learned that he had a short engagement with Jennifer Gray in the same period. However, the first person to have a relationship with Johnny Depp graced the headlines was the famous actress Winona Ryder.
Depp and Ryder, who were lovers between 1989 and 1993, and even went through a period of engagement, ended their relationship after four years. During this period, Johnny Depp changed his tattoo with "Winona Forever" on his arm to "Wino Forever" after their relationship ended. This tattoo would be one of the causes of dozens of different fights in the chain of sensations, which we know as the Amber Heard Johnny Depp event, many years later.
Johnny Depp, who was in a relationship with world-famous model Kate Moss between 1994-1998, fell in love with Vanessa Paradis after this relationship ended. This relationship is Depp's longest-known relationship because it lasted for about 14 years. However, while Depp was still with Paradis, he met his co-star Amber Heard during the filming of The Rum Diary in 2009. The Johnny Depp Amber Heard relationship, which was known to have started during filming, did not turn out well after a marriage that lasted for about 15 months, as many of us know. In short, Johnny Depp actually only had two marriages in his lifetime. However, he kept the agenda busy for a long time with every relationship that was reflected in the tabloid press.
The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Case
The conflict that started between the two and the lawsuit that continued in front of the cameras made almost everyone following the magazine's agenda a part of this process. While many people closely followed the striking events between the two, they could not help being a party to the ongoing lawsuit. While some found Depp to be justified, others found Amber Heard, who opened the case and claimed that he had been subjected to psychological and physical violence by Johnny Depp.
Heard and Depp, who met in 2010 in the movie "The Rum Diary" in which they acted together, and their relationship developed after this process, decided to get engaged in 2014. In 2015, they crowned their relationship with marriage. The age difference between the star names who got married in a secret ceremony was on the agenda of the magazine at that time.
About 15 months after their marriage, Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp. He cited Depp's excessive use of alcohol and drugs as the reason for the lawsuit. Heard also claimed that the famous actor abused him. Johnny Depp, who denied the accusations and allegations against him, agreed with Amber Heard in the case in 2016 and agreed to pay him a compensation of around 7 million dollars. At the end of the case, the two explained that even though they had troubled periods in their relationship, they were not offended by each other and that no one was a party to this lawsuit in order to cause physical and emotional harm to anyone. After the case was settled and the constructive statements made, the crisis between Depp and Heard was thought to be over. However, everything was just beginning…
When the calendar leaves showed the year 2018, the Depp-Heard tension, which had been shelved for two years, fell like a bomb on the agenda again. When Amber Heard talked about women who were exposed to domestic violence in an article she wrote for the Washington Post, one of the most famous newspapers in the USA, the content of the article disturbed the Depp front. Although Heard did not publicly mention Depp's name, the famous actor, who thought that he was the person he was implying in the article, said that his career had suffered a great loss of reputation. Depp, who felt that he was greatly harmed, claimed that shortly after the publication of the article, Disney removed him from the "Pirates of the Caribbean 6" project just because of the allegations made there. In this process, Heard's lawyers claimed that Depp's career declined before the allegations were made. After the statements and ongoing developments from the two fronts, the tension between the two once again peaked.
Johnny Depp filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard for an article he wrote for the Washington Post in 2019 after the controversy raged. Amber Heard could not hide her surprise at Depp's lawsuit and immediately took action against it. Heard, who applied for the annulment of the case and mobilized the lawyers, could not find what he was looking for in the US law and could not get the annulment of the lawsuit filed by Depp against him. The famous actor, who found the remedy to file a counterclaim, filed a new lawsuit against Depp for 100 million dollars. Thus, the two faced each other in the courtroom once again in great tension.
The lawsuit, which began in April 2022, was held in the US state of Virginia, where the Washington Post, the newspaper in which the article was published, has two offices. While the trial, which lasted about two months, was concluded in June, the issues discussed in the trial, the statements of the witnesses and the allegations of the defendants, and the events during the trial also created an earthquake effect on the agenda as much as the outcome of the trial.