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Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are suing each other for defamation, each claiming they were abused before and during their roughly two-year marriage. A Virginia jury is hearing the case, which is expected to run through late May.

Federal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of more than two months for a Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt

Amber Heard says Johnny Depp launched a ‘smear campaign’ against her and called her ‘a liar’

‘At the time it felt like the hardest thing I ever had to do,’ she told a court in Fairfax, Virginia, on Monday

Ms Heard has resumed testifying in the defamation trial opposing her and Mr Depp in Virginia

Amber Heard took to the stand for a third day of testimony in the defamation trial in Fairfax, Virginia

Defamation trial has resumed in Virginia after one-week break

Depp testified at length about alleged physical and verbal abuse he sustained at Heard’s hands, as well as her drug and alcohol use.

Over six weeks of testimony, jury heard from string of witnesses including the couple’s friends, psychiatric experts, surgeons and the actors themselves. Testimony painted captivating and disturbing portrait of a doomed marriage, laying bare violent fights, drug use and vicious words to each other. Here are some of most dramatic…

Washington Post computer servers allowed Depp lawyers to sue in commonwealth

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