Johnny Depp and Amber Heard finalise bitter divorce - and actress gets the dogs

US actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
US actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Credit: AP

A judge ended Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's marriage on Friday after months of bickering over the final terms of their break-up.

The judgment keeps in place many of the key terms which the actors agreed to in August, when they announced a settlement in their divorce, a day before a restraining order hearing that would have focused on Heard's allegations that Depp was physically abusive towards her.

The divorce papers showed that Depp would retain sole possession of numerous real estate assets, including properties in Los Angeles, Paris and his private island in the Bahamas. He will also keep more than 40 vehicles and vessels, including vintage cars and his motorcycle collection.

Johnny Depp, with one of their dogs

Heard will maintain custody of her dogs Pistol and Boo, the two canines at the centre of a scandal in Australia in which Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying travel documents to sneak her pets into the country in 2015 without proper quarantine procedures.


"We are all pleased to put this unpleasant chapter in Mr Depp and his family's lives behind them," his attorney Laura Wasser wrote in a statement.

"Having his request for entry of the dissolution judgment granted today made it a particularly lucky Friday the 13th."





Depp denied he physically abused Heard. Police officers who responded to claims of a fight between the couple at their apartment in May said they found no evidence that a crime had been committed.

