What is Johnny Depp’s real name after revelation in Amber Heard trial?

Depp returned to court docket this week because the bombshell libel trial rumbles on (Image: AP)

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor and Aquaman actress returned to a Virginia court docket on Tuesday the place they're counter suing one another for libel. 

Depp, 58, sued his ex-wife for $50million (£40m), claiming that a 2018 article she wrote for The Washington Publish about her expertise with home abuse, prompt that he was bodily and sexually abusive in direction of her throughout their marriage. Heard later filed a countersuit in opposition to him for $100m (£80.3m). 

Dialogue about Depp’s full identify mounted on-line as proceedings continued yesterday… 

Johnny was born in Kentucky as John Christopher Depp II so his stage moniker doesn’t deviate too removed from his actual identify. 

Depp’s makes use of his nickname Johnny as his stage identify (Image: Rex Options)

Heard reportedly saved his identify as ‘Steve’ in her cellphone (Image: EPA)

The ‘second’ is as a result of the actor was named after his father John Christopher Depp. 

Early on in her testimony, Heard was requested a couple of textual content message she obtained from Depp in August 2014, which was signed off: ‘Yours… Steve.’ 

The sender was additionally listed as ‘Steve’.

There’s no massive thriller about it because it was revealed that Heard would name Depp ‘Steve’ as a nickname and, in flip, he would name her ‘Slim’. 

It’s believed the nicknames are impressed by two characters from the 1944 film To Have and Have Not, Steve and Slim, who have been performed by Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. 

Coincidentally, the characters have a 25-year age hole, very like Depp and Heard with 22 years between them. 

The trial continues.