Johnny Depp is broke and ..... possibly crazy

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We're only hearing Depp's woe-is-me side of the story here.

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Anonymous wrote:We're only hearing Depp's woe-is-me side of the story here.

True, but even that wasn't very sympathetic to him.

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Somehow, everyone seems to be skipping over the fact that he was abused. From the sound of it, he also seems like a very sensitive human being who is trying to numb himself. The most telling thing for me was the painting he was creating of him as a boy. He obviously has not dealt with his pasrt demons and having started in Hollywood in his 20’s, never had the chance. His past is still haunting him. To those who have been able to move on from past abuse, you are the minority and should not be looking down on those who can’t. Just because you can, does not mean everyone can. Your circumstances were probably very, very different than his.

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Anonymous wrote:We're only hearing Depp's woe-is-me side of the story here.

And? It's not doing him any favors. The writer makes him sound like a hot mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow, everyone seems to be skipping over the fact that he was abused. From the sound of it, he also seems like a very sensitive human being who is trying to numb himself. The most telling thing for me was the painting he was creating of him as a boy. He obviously has not dealt with his pasrt demons and having started in Hollywood in his 20’s, never had the chance. His past is still haunting him. To those who have been able to move on from past abuse, you are the minority and should not be looking down on those who can’t. Just because you can, does not mean everyone can. Your circumstances were probably very, very different than his.

He has been living like a King for a long, long time. He blames his sister in part for his money woes - didn't she grow up with him? Wouldn't she have been abused, too? If he's not willing to give her a pass for doing him wrong, why should he be given a pass for behaving so irresponsibly.

The man has children of his own now. He has a staff that relies on him for a paycheck. I'll reserve my sympathy for them.

[Anonymous]

I hope his ex-wife is financially sensible enough to support their children.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope his ex-wife is financially sensible enough to support their children.

Maybe the son for a couple more years, but their daughter is 19, a fashion model and budding actress. She is on the cover of one of the Vogues this month. Seems like she could support herself.

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow, everyone seems to be skipping over the fact that he was abused. From the sound of it, he also seems like a very sensitive human being who is trying to numb himself. The most telling thing for me was the painting he was creating of him as a boy. He obviously has not dealt with his pasrt demons and having started in Hollywood in his 20’s, never had the chance. His past is still haunting him. To those who have been able to move on from past abuse, you are the minority and should not be looking down on those who can’t. Just because you can, does not mean everyone can. Your circumstances were probably very, very different than his.

He has been living like a King for a long, long time. He blames his sister in part for his money woes - didn't she grow up with him? Wouldn't she have been abused, too? If he's not willing to give her a pass for doing him wrong, why should he be given a pass for behaving so irresponsibly.

The man has children of his own now. He has a staff that relies on him for a paycheck. I'll reserve my sympathy for them.

Maybe the family is stealing from him. It happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Awe, leave Keanu out of this. I like Keanu.

Not to derail this thread too much, but this essay from last year is pretty amusing:

We need you, Keanu. Please come back
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/we-need-you-keanu-please-come-back/news-story/8c0836bfe3ebaa39a05d318dadde91b2


"COME back, Keanu — we need you. In fact, I’m sending George Clooney on a special Oceans 14 mission to locate you.

It’s been a dire few weeks for our formerly ageless ’90s heart-throbs. There we were, thinking Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp would continue to melt ladies’ hearts until they stopped beating all together, when bam, they tumbled off the midlife crisis cliff and lost the plot and their looks somewhere in the abyss."

Keanu seems like such a great guy. I feel so awful about his tragic past. Although that is part of the appeal, I think I can fix him.

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow, everyone seems to be skipping over the fact that he was abused. From the sound of it, he also seems like a very sensitive human being who is trying to numb himself. The most telling thing for me was the painting he was creating of him as a boy. He obviously has not dealt with his pasrt demons and having started in Hollywood in his 20’s, never had the chance. His past is still haunting him. To those who have been able to move on from past abuse, you are the minority and should not be looking down on those who can’t. Just because you can, does not mean everyone can. Your circumstances were probably very, very different than his.

He has been living like a King for a long, long time. He blames his sister in part for his money woes - didn't she grow up with him? Wouldn't she have been abused, too? If he's not willing to give her a pass for doing him wrong, why should he be given a pass for behaving so irresponsibly.

The man has children of his own now. He has a staff that relies on him for a paycheck. I'll reserve my sympathy for them.

Maybe the family is stealing from him. It happens.

Uhh, isn't he the one who gave them access to his money? Couldn't he take away their access to his money at any time?

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Anonymous wrote:Awe, leave Keanu out of this. I like Keanu.

Not to derail this thread too much, but this essay from last year is pretty amusing:

We need you, Keanu. Please come back
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/we-need-you-keanu-please-come-back/news-story/8c0836bfe3ebaa39a05d318dadde91b2


"COME back, Keanu — we need you. In fact, I’m sending George Clooney on a special Oceans 14 mission to locate you.

It’s been a dire few weeks for our formerly ageless ’90s heart-throbs. There we were, thinking Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp would continue to melt ladies’ hearts until they stopped beating all together, when bam, they tumbled off the midlife crisis cliff and lost the plot and their looks somewhere in the abyss."

Keanu seems like such a great guy. I feel so awful about his tragic past. Although that is part of the appeal, I think I can fix him.

I think it's refreshing that he still does things like ride the subway. There's a video of him out there riding the subway unrecognized and giving up his seat to a female passenger. I'll bet it wouldn't even dawn on Depp to ride the subway much less give up his seat to a commoner.

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone saying that he could just sell what he has or sell part of what he has, you're missing the point. Money was stolen from him by TMG. So, if someone steals, oh, I don't know, $5000 or $10,000 from you. How would you feel if everyone around you just said "sell one of your cars to cover the loss. go ahead. If you just sold a car or a sofa you'd be whole again" That's not the point. It's his money and he shouldn't have to sell anything to get his money back

True, but there is no telling when or if he may recover money that may have been stolen depending on the courts. Principles don't pay debts. When you need money in the present and you have stuff, it's a no-brainer, sell stuff. Apparently his horse farm is still for sale after it failed to sell at auction last year, but he supposedly owns 14 luxury homes across the globe, 40 cars, boats, a massive guitar collection and storage units full of stuff. He also spends a chunk of money supporting his family. He may not want to or should not have to get rid of stuff, but multi-million dollar earning celebs aren't immune to doing what they have to in order to pay some bills.

Did you skip the part where some of his family (mainly a sister) may be part of the problem?

This guy had tons of resources. He could have hired a firm to audit and oversee his managers. But he didn't do that. Instead he surrounded himself with "yes men", people who told him what he wanted to hear and he blew through his fortune. Did his managers also overcompensate themselves? Probably.

And he continues to spend money that he doesn't have. There are no way to make the numbers work on his accounts, the dude is in financial trouble. And honestly I really don't care because he had to work pretty hard to blow through that enormous fortune of his. If he's broke, he's broke. Is what it is.

I know, what I'm saying is that one of his sisters appears to be part of the problem insofar as overcompensating herself.

Why did he give his sister access to his money and if he was too clueless to understand that he was burning through his money like an out of control forest fire why would she be any less clueless than he was?

Firstly, everything I'm writing here I learned from actually reading the article so maybe that would help... that said, it says that sister Christi was his day-to-day manager from the beginning who more recently received $7mil from TMG that Depp didn't know about or authorize, and another sister and her family seem to have moved into his mom's house and was spending money he also didn't know about.

While I agree that he should have a better grasp of his affairs, I'm just saying if he trusted manager sister Christi that may be part of the problem as it looks like she was skimming or in cahoots with TMG.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow, everyone seems to be skipping over the fact that he was abused. From the sound of it, he also seems like a very sensitive human being who is trying to numb himself. The most telling thing for me was the painting he was creating of him as a boy. He obviously has not dealt with his pasrt demons and having started in Hollywood in his 20’s, never had the chance. His past is still haunting him. To those who have been able to move on from past abuse, you are the minority and should not be looking down on those who can’t. Just because you can, does not mean everyone can. Your circumstances were probably very, very different than his.

He has been living like a King for a long, long time. He blames his sister in part for his money woes - didn't she grow up with him? Wouldn't she have been abused, too? If he's not willing to give her a pass for doing him wrong, why should he be given a pass for behaving so irresponsibly.

The man has children of his own now. He has a staff that relies on him for a paycheck. I'll reserve my sympathy for them.

Maybe the family is stealing from him. It happens.

The linked, which is seems very few posters actually read, says exactly this.

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone saying that he could just sell what he has or sell part of what he has, you're missing the point. Money was stolen from him by TMG. So, if someone steals, oh, I don't know, $5000 or $10,000 from you. How would you feel if everyone around you just said "sell one of your cars to cover the loss. go ahead. If you just sold a car or a sofa you'd be whole again" That's not the point. It's his money and he shouldn't have to sell anything to get his money back

True, but there is no telling when or if he may recover money that may have been stolen depending on the courts. Principles don't pay debts. When you need money in the present and you have stuff, it's a no-brainer, sell stuff. Apparently his horse farm is still for sale after it failed to sell at auction last year, but he supposedly owns 14 luxury homes across the globe, 40 cars, boats, a massive guitar collection and storage units full of stuff. He also spends a chunk of money supporting his family. He may not want to or should not have to get rid of stuff, but multi-million dollar earning celebs aren't immune to doing what they have to in order to pay some bills.

Did you skip the part where some of his family (mainly a sister) may be part of the problem?

This guy had tons of resources. He could have hired a firm to audit and oversee his managers. But he didn't do that. Instead he surrounded himself with "yes men", people who told him what he wanted to hear and he blew through his fortune. Did his managers also overcompensate themselves? Probably.

And he continues to spend money that he doesn't have. There are no way to make the numbers work on his accounts, the dude is in financial trouble. And honestly I really don't care because he had to work pretty hard to blow through that enormous fortune of his. If he's broke, he's broke. Is what it is.

I know, what I'm saying is that one of his sisters appears to be part of the problem insofar as overcompensating herself.

Why did he give his sister access to his money and if he was too clueless to understand that he was burning through his money like an out of control forest fire why would she be any less clueless than he was?

Firstly, everything I'm writing here I learned from actually reading the article so maybe that would help... that said, it says that sister Christi was his day-to-day manager from the beginning who more recently received $7mil from TMG that Depp didn't know about or authorize, and another sister and her family seem to have moved into his mom's house and was spending money he also didn't know about.

While I agree that he should have a better grasp of his affairs, I'm just saying if he trusted manager sister Christi that may be part of the problem as it looks like she was skimming or in cahoots with TMG.

Then he has been careless with his money and so have his family members. But even her skimming 7 million of his 650 million doesn't explain where the other 643 million went.

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone saying that he could just sell what he has or sell part of what he has, you're missing the point. Money was stolen from him by TMG. So, if someone steals, oh, I don't know, $5000 or $10,000 from you. How would you feel if everyone around you just said "sell one of your cars to cover the loss. go ahead. If you just sold a car or a sofa you'd be whole again" That's not the point. It's his money and he shouldn't have to sell anything to get his money back

True, but there is no telling when or if he may recover money that may have been stolen depending on the courts. Principles don't pay debts. When you need money in the present and you have stuff, it's a no-brainer, sell stuff. Apparently his horse farm is still for sale after it failed to sell at auction last year, but he supposedly owns 14 luxury homes across the globe, 40 cars, boats, a massive guitar collection and storage units full of stuff. He also spends a chunk of money supporting his family. He may not want to or should not have to get rid of stuff, but multi-million dollar earning celebs aren't immune to doing what they have to in order to pay some bills.

Did you skip the part where some of his family (mainly a sister) may be part of the problem?

This guy had tons of resources. He could have hired a firm to audit and oversee his managers. But he didn't do that. Instead he surrounded himself with "yes men", people who told him what he wanted to hear and he blew through his fortune. Did his managers also overcompensate themselves? Probably.

And he continues to spend money that he doesn't have. There are no way to make the numbers work on his accounts, the dude is in financial trouble. And honestly I really don't care because he had to work pretty hard to blow through that enormous fortune of his. If he's broke, he's broke. Is what it is.

I know, what I'm saying is that one of his sisters appears to be part of the problem insofar as overcompensating herself.

Why did he give his sister access to his money and if he was too clueless to understand that he was burning through his money like an out of control forest fire why would she be any less clueless than he was?

Firstly, everything I'm writing here I learned from actually reading the article so maybe that would help... that said, it says that sister Christi was his day-to-day manager from the beginning who more recently received $7mil from TMG that Depp didn't know about or authorize, and another sister and her family seem to have moved into his mom's house and was spending money he also didn't know about.

While I agree that he should have a better grasp of his affairs, I'm just saying if he trusted manager sister Christi that may be part of the problem as it looks like she was skimming or in cahoots with TMG.

Then he has been careless with his money and so have his family members. But even her skimming 7 million of his 650 million doesn't explain where the other 643 million went.

Real estate (multiple homes plus Brando-esque private island), car services and private air travel, $30,000 a month for booze, $Xmil for shooting Hunter Thompson's ashes from a cannon, etc., plus the managers and family members skimming. I agree that it's ultimately his fault for being so careless but it's not a mystery at all where it all went if you read the article.