Overview

• Bianca Butti, a former partner of Heard, states she witnessed Heard recoil in fear during arguments and fully believes her accounts of violence.
• Butti provided candid video footage for the project, which shifted from a planned documentary to the book Hollywood Vampires by Kelly Loudenberg and Makiko Wholey.
• The book recounts Heard’s emotional detachment while awaiting verdicts in the 2020 U.K. libel case against The Sun and the 2022 Virginia defamation trial.
• Heard first alleged domestic violence when filing for divorce in May 2016, leading Depp to sue The Sun for libel and later win his defamation case in Virginia.
• Hollywood Vampires, released June 2025, retraces the high-profile legal battles and media scrutiny surrounding Depp and Heard’s relationship.