Depp is not short of takers for role of his girlfriend/wife. Amber Heard is nothing special, neither in the looks department nor the acting department. She offers him nothing he couldn't get easily. Any big star has no trouble getting laid, even by women 20 years younger than they are. It's her allegation alone that he "beat the shit out of" her, and that's why they are in court.
It sounds like both of them took too many drugs and drank too much, but being a drunken idiot isn't what this case is about. I think you can look at how a lot of women left relationships with famous men, with the idea of having their own career and not admitting they used their more famous husband for roles. Sondra Locke tried it but was blackballed. Nicole Kidman tried it and was able to keep her career going. Katie Holmes hasn't had as easy a time of it. In any event, someone leaving a marriage is not happy for a myriad of reasons, and any one of them can be legitimate without being illegal. What Heard publicly alleged is that Depp beat her. From the evidence presented, if he beat her, she beat him just as much or worse. Her problem is she tried to make a martyr herself as a "domestic abuse survivor" when anyone who knew them knew she gave as good as she got.
They both suck. I don't know why I'm even on this thread. I was curious as to what others thought, I guess.