Johnny Depp Trial: 8 Shocking Moments, From the Search for His Missing Fingertip to Amber Heard’s Hair-Raising Plea

First three weeks of the former couple’s defamation trial were nothing if not memorable

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The trial of Johnny Depp vs. his ex-wife Amber Heard has been filled with explosive and at times bizarre testimony about the couple’s toxic relationship.

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million claiming she libeled him in a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post, costing him a lucrative role in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. Although Heard didn’t name Depp in the article, the “Aquaman” star described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

Over the course of three weeks in the dueling defamation trial, Depp’s legal team has called more than a dozen witnesses who have testified about drugs, booze, fights, money and tainted careers. 

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