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Heard, 30, filed the divorce petition in a Los Angeles court
on Monday, citing "irreconcilable differences" with the
52-year-old Depp, the A-list actor who starred in "Pirates of
the Caribbean," according to a copy of the court documents
uploaded online by celebrity news website TMZ.
Reuters could not independently verify the report.
Representatives for the two did not return calls or emails
seeking comment.
The couple got married in February of last year after meeting
when they appeared together in the 2011 film "The Rum Diary."
The pair began dating after Depp split from his longtime
partner, French actress Vanessa Paradis. Depp and Paradis are
the parents of two teenage children, a boy and a girl.
Depp and Heard made global headlines last year when they ran
into legal trouble for bringing their Yorkshire terriers, Pistol
and Boo, into Australia as Depp was filming the latest "Pirates
of the Caribbean" movie, breaching the country's tight
biosecurity laws.
Heard was charged with two counts of illegally importing the
pets and one count of producing a false document last July. A
magistrate judge in April filed no conviction for Heard but
issued a formal order to stay out of trouble for a month or face
a A$1,000 ($767) fine.
A videoed deadpan apology by Depp and Heard for the offense,
gleefully dubbed the "war on terrier" and "terriergate" by the
Australian media, later went viral.
Depp gained fame in the late 1980s after appearing in the
popular TV series "21 Jump Street" and later starred in "Edward
Scissorhands" and "Alice in Wonderland." Depp stars in the
sequel, "Alice Through the Looking Glass," released in theaters
on Friday.
Heard most recently appeared in the film "The Danish Girl."
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco)
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