The incident actually caused an uproar with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources as Minister Barnaby Joyce cited it as a breach of local quarantine laws. Apparently, the Yorkshire pets were taken into Australia without proper documentation and without undergoing quarantine procedures.
Joyce gave an ultimatum to Heard to take back the dogs to the US or have the dogs killed in Australia. Depp chartered another private plane to fly back his then wife and two dogs shortly thereafter.
After the brouhaha, Amber Heard told the media that the Australian minister was just looking for his 15 minutes of fame. That riled up Joyce who went on to become an Australian Deputy Minister so he pursued a case against the actress.
In April, Heard went back to Australia and pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying documents and the Australian court has likely meted her a penalty for the felony but no jail time.
Depp and Heard may have overcome the projections of critics and pundits that their marriage would not last a year because it sure did.
However, the critics were still right on cue when they said that their marriage would not last because 15 months of marriage is very short indeed.
Incidentally, Amber Heard filed the divorce against Johnny Depp, just three days after the death of the actor’s mother which surely had the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star reeling emotionally.