8. Amber Heard Divorcing Johnny Depp After Domestic Violence Accusations
And for so many years we thought Johnny was a sweet, sweet man, absolutely incapable of violence of any sort… What a delusion!
In August, the couple settled both their divorce and the domestic abuse case, thus putting an end to one of Hollywood’s ugliest break-ups ever. Earlier this year, Heard filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order on the premise of alleged domestic abuse after a drunken argument in their LA apartment.
In her filing, she claimed that Depp freaked over something and became extremely angry, threw a phone at her and hit her in the cheek and eye “with extreme force.” A friend of Heard’s who witnessed the scene supported her version, and added that during the argument, Depp was swinging a bottle of wine “like a baseball bat.” In his defense, Depp’s lawyers maintained that their client acted that way for a logical reason.
He thought his wife was having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton, although both Thornton and Heard had denied any intimacy between them.
The worse outcome of the whole divorce, however, was the fact that the domestic abuse claims presented a serious problem for Dior, which uses Depp’s image with rolled-up sleeves for their advertising campaign for a perfume ironically named Sauvage.
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