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Amber Heard files for divorce from Johnny Depp
The actor cites ‘irreconcilable differences’ in court papers a little more than a year after they were married
Nicky Woolf and Agencies
Thursday 26 May 2016 01.09 BST
Johnny Depp’s wife has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences after just over a year of marriage.
Court records show that Amber Heard filed for divorce on Monday and is seeking spousal support from the Oscar-nominated actor. The split also comes hard on the heels of the death on 20 May of Depp’s mother, Betty Sue Palmer, after a long illness.
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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are to divorce, court papers said. Photograph by Jordan Strauss |
Depp and Heard recently hit the headlines for a bizarre spat with Australian deputy prime minister and minister for agriculture Barnaby Joyce, after Heard fell foul of biosecurity rules for unlawfully bringing the pair’s dogs into the country. Joyce threatened to have the dogs euthanised unless they “buggered off” back to the United States.