In the wake of losing his argument against the distributors of The Sun in the UK in 2020, Johnny Depp is currently suing his ex Amber Heard in the US in a subsequent slander case. After delays during the pandemic, the six-week preliminary is set to start this week – this time with a camera in court.

The subtleties that emerged during what was depicted as the “preliminary of the century” would presumably have been profoundly harming to Depp’s profession, regardless of whether he had won. As it ended up, he lost; the appointed authority seemingly sounding the mark of the end when he presumed that a Sun paper title text considering the entertainer a “tank top” was “significantly evident”.