Johnny Depp's wife hasn't been seen or heard in court since being charged with smuggling the superstar couple's dogs into Australia but that's set to change in April.
The infamous doggy drama is going to trial and Amber Heard, the 29-year-old actress wife of Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp, will be required to appear.
The four-day trial was set down for April 18 during a hearing at the Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Heard is facing two counts of breaching Australia's quarantine laws after allegedly bringing the couple's dogs Pistol and Boo into the country on a private jet in May.
Twelve witnesses are expected to give evidence at the trial, but it's unclear whether Heard's Hollywood heart-throb husband is on the list.
Depp has previously joked about the international scandal, including Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce's threats to have the dogs put down.
"I killed my dogs and ate them under direct orders from some kinda, I dunno, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia," he said, in an apparent reference to Mr Joyce, during the Venice Film Festival.
But it's no laughing matter, with Heard facing a possible 10-year prison sentence and a hefty fine for the charge of illegal importation and producing a false document.
The alleged biosecurity breach made world headlines after Mr Joyce ordered the superstar couple's dogs to "bugger off" out of the country or be put down.
The troublesome terriers avoided death row by boarding a flight back to the US before a euthanasia deadline.
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