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After six weeks of testimony, the jury in the high-profile defamation trial finally began deliberating on Friday afternoon. Rachel Sharp reports from Fairfax, Virginia, on what you need to know about the case

Actor Johnny Depp is suing his former partner Amber Heard over a 2018 article she wrote in the Washington Post.

‘People who have suffered [domestic abuse], they don’t want to broadcast that to the world,’ Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn said during closing arguments

Closing arguments ask jurors to consider what their verdict in defamation case will mean for domestic abuse victims

‘What Ms Heard testified to in this courtroom is the story of far too many women. But the overwhelming evidence, weight of that evidence, shows that it’s not her story’, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez told the jury

Lawyers for the actor said a ‘mountain’ of evidence that Mr Depp assaulted his former partner was ‘simply not there’.

Following six weeks of testimony, the jury has now been sent out to consider its verdict

As Depp’s $50m defamation lawsuit draws to a close in Virginia, Clémence Michallon looks at the former couple’s legal history

Actor Johnny Depp testified on Wednesday at his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard that it has been "unimaginably brutal" to listen to her "heinous" accusations of domestic abuse. "No human being is perfect, certainly not, none of us, but I have never in my life committed sexual battery,…

Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman called Heard’s allegations of domestic abuse a ‘hoax’ and an ‘ambush’

As Depp’s $50m defamation lawsuit plays out in court in Virginia, Clémence Michallon looks at the former couple’s legal history