Johnny Depp Sued For Mismanaging His Money After Spending $3 Million To Blast Hunter S. Thompson's Ashes Out Of A Cannon
BBC – Johnny Depp’s financial troubles are caused by a lavish $2m-a-month lifestyle, say the business managers he is suing for mismanaging his earnings.
They claim he spent more than $75m (£59.6m) on 14 homes and $3m (£2.4m) blasting author Hunter S Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon.
The Management Group are countersuing Depp after the Pirates of the Caribbean actor sued them for $25m (£20m).
Depp, they claim, is “fully responsible for any financial turmoil” he faces.
“He has refused to live within his means, despite… repeated warnings about his financial condition,” their countersuit claims.
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Listen if you want to hate on Johnny Depp for being an alleged scumbag woman beater, that’s one thing. Be my guest. But anybody disparaging him for being a mega rich superstar A list actor and spending his money on awesome shit needs to shut the fuck up and stop being so poor. I mean this is literally the exact point of being rich. To spend all your money on ridiculous stuff that you don’t need. And that not only includes, but STARTS with something like spending 3 million bucks to shoot Hunter S Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. That is rich people shit on a hundred thousand trillion. That’s why you spend all those years in acting school. To make it to the top of your profession and cash in monster Pirates of the Carribean franchise paychecks and blow it all on shooting your buddy’s ashes out of a cannon.
Johnny Depp: a spender. Not a saver.
Their legal action, obtained by the Deadline website, also accuses the actor of spending:
$18m (£14.3m) on an 150 foot (45 metre) yacht
$4m (£3.2m) on a failed record label
$3m (£2.4m) to blast Hunter S Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon
$300,000 (£238,600) a month to maintain a staff of 40 people
$200,000 (£159,000) a month on private planes
$150,000 (£119,330) a month on round-the-clock security
$30,000 (£23,800) a month on buying and importing wine
He also needed 12 storage facilities to house his collection of Hollywood memorabilia, they allege.
Mo’ money mo’ problems.