Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine

The explosive inside story of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship, divorce, and trials based on unprecedented access to the private worlds of Johnny, Amber, and their inner circles.

Celebrity romances and trials have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas in the media. But few took over the popular psyche like that of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, whose hostile legal battle became entangled in the heated ideology and politics of the moment.

Hollywood Vampires offers a profoundly intimate account of the most controversial and consequential celebrity scandal of our time. Reporters and documentarians Kelly Loudenberg and Makiko Wholey embedded with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and their camps, interviewing their closest friends and family members as well as their managers, lawyers, agents, business associates, publicists, assistants, and personal staff. The result is a page turning Hollywood epic that reveals shocking new details.

By telling the sweeping story of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Hollywood Vampires tell a complex and captivating narrative about celebrity culture and the Hollywood exploitation machine, the distrust of mainstream media, the limitations of the justice system to find and record the truth, and the shifting winds of MeToo feminism. Through vivid, inside the room reporting, Hollywood Vampires challenges our assumptions and conclusions while reframing our understanding of this era-defining story.