Johnny Depp spent $3 million to blast Hunter Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. He spent $18 million on an 150-foot yacht. He spent $4 million on a failed record label. He spent $30,000 a month on wine, $200,000 a month on private planes, $150,000 a month on round-the-clock security, and $300,000 a month to maintain a staff of 40 people.
All of these expenses — contained in a blistering countersuit filed Tuesday by Depp’s ex-managers — led him to the brink of financial ruin, the suit alleges.
The suit comes in response to Depp’s own lawsuit on Jan. 13, which accused the Management Group (TMG) of defrauding him out of tens of millions of dollars. Depp alleged that TMG had mismanaged his finances, took out loans without his approval, and hidden the parlous state of his affairs from him.
Depp claimed that he only realized the gravity of the situation when TMG advised him to sell a large piece of property in France to pay his debts. He ultimately fired TMG and hired a new manager, at which point he alleged that the misconduct came to light.
However, TMG alleges in its countersuit that Depp was kept fully informed that he was spending more than he was taking in.
“Depp often responded by rebuking and cursing his business managers for issuing such warnings and advice, while increasing his extravagant lifestyle and spending, and demanding that his business managers find some way to pay for it all,” TMG alleges. “Depp, and Depp alone, is fully responsible for any financial turmoil he finds himself in today. He has refused to live within his means, despite the best efforts of TMG and the repeated warnings about his financial condition from TMG and his other advisors.”
Mason Sullivan
What, PRAY TELL, has this information to do with Johnny Depp's roles or career?
Josiah Wood
Damn it Johnny, I know you like Brando, but that doesn't mean you should go full Brando in your personal life... >spent $3 million to blast Hunter Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. Worth it, though. Guess Hunter fucked up his own money management (no surprise there) or his family didn't want to spend on the cannon funeral.
Jayden Turner
It is about his career
Benjamin Wood
how could that possibly cost 3 million???
Josiah Gonzalez
>He spent $18 million on an 150-foot yacht.
Adrian Russell
Good question. My guess is all the other expenses of a funeral — wining and dining the attendants, etc. If he could spend 30K/month on wine, I'm sure he could figure out how to throw a ridiculously expensive funeral. But I don't know.
Christopher Gutierrez
what a fucking retard
Henry Anderson
This explains some of it: >On August 20, 2005, in a private funeral, Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon. This was accompanied by red, white, blue and green fireworks—all to the tune of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man".[50] The cannon was placed atop a 153-foot (47 m) tower which had the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button, a symbol originally used in his 1970 campaign for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado. The plans for the monument were initially drawn by Thompson and Steadman, and were shown as part of an Omnibus program on the BBC titled Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978). It is included as a special feature on the second disc of the 2004 Criterion Collection DVD release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and labeled as Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood. >According to his widow, Anita, the 3 million dollar funeral was funded by actor Johnny Depp, who was a close friend of Thompson. Depp told the Associated Press, "All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out."[50] An estimated 280 people attended, including U.S. Senators John Kerry[51] and George McGovern;[51] 60 Minutes correspondents Ed Bradley and Charlie Rose; actors Jack Nicholson, John Cusack, Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, and Josh Hartnett; musicians Lyle Lovett, John Oates and David Amram, and artist and long-time friend Ralph Steadman. (from Wikipedia)
Jose White
>a whole lot of wealthy people attended
$3 million / 280 = $10,714.28
To further reduce costs they could have filled it and released it on DVD.
Jeremiah Morales
should ask for a parlay
Grayson King
>$150,000 a month on round-the-clock security To protect him from what? >and $300,000 a month to maintain a staff of 40 people. What the fuck does he have these 40 people doing?
Levi Reed
LOL
Parker Carter
this is how it works the bloodsuckers get paid when you're on your way up the bloodsuckers get paid when you're at the top and the bloodsuckers take it all in the end by purely "legal" means
by bloodsuckers i mean kikes obv
Joseph Rivera
>and $300,000 a month to maintain a staff of 40 people. $300,000/40 $7,500 each
No wonder these leftist commie fucks don't want us to deport illegal Mexicans
Zachary Wood
>john kerry
and people still claim he wasn't a garbage shill.
Dominic White
That's $7,500 a *month*, though, which is pretty damn good.
John Johnson
Jews don't make a man spend $30,000/month on wine.
Brandon Foster
HE DIDN'T SWIM SO GOOD
Juan Johnson
>That's $7,500 a *month*, though, which is pretty damn good. Oh what the fuck! Now I have no idea what they may be doing
Joseph Fisher
Who?
Liam Gomez
hunter thompson
Jaxson Jackson
Thompson was a shill?
Carter Young
>$300,000 a month to maintain a staff of 40 people.
WHAT THE FUCK
Juan Bennett
supported the clintons/dems and was apparently good buddies with john kerry... so yea?
Carter Miller
Was paying out his ass a part of his plan?
Adam Rivera
Keep in mind that the alternative to McGovern was fucking Nixon, who ended up resigning because he fucked up being President so badly.
Josiah Nguyen
not an argument
Adam Gomez
Not even funny, rëddit
Dominic Stewart
More like the CIA gaslit Nixon (which the press had a hardon for anyway - case in point: hunter thompson). The nixon tapes even prove that he didn't even know about watergate or any of that shit and was pissed as all fuck when he did find out.
Sebastian Taylor
just wondering it was hunter thompson who nixon picked up that one time to discuss football right?
Carson Anderson
Carter was much worse and fucked up so bad that Republicans won the white house 3 times in a row. Nixon was actually not bad, ended the Vietnam war and started the EPA for example.
Connor Flores
Good. I hope he hangs himself on the doorknob of public toilet in crackwhore motel with an AIDS needle sticking from his arm.
Carter Cooper
Nixon is attacked and mingled in modern media because he knew the score on the Jews. Just listen to the Nixon tapes about how he views Jews as enemy agents that will destroy America eventually. Of course the Jewish own media would never forgive him because Jews don't forgive and forget.
Caleb Bennett
I'm just a kid from the gutter Making this butter off these bloodsuckers
Elijah Perry
>$30,000 a month on wine Christ you can get a good bottle of cabernet for $15, how much do you fucking need?
Hudson Morris
>The nixon tapes even prove that he didn't even know about watergate or any of that shit and was pissed as all fuck when he did find out. To my knowledge, they prove no such thing. This contrarian love of Nixon is retarded (or, more likely, Sup Forumstarded). The man used his powers as President to try to extralegally damage his political opponents. If you don't think that's wrong, regardless of your feelings about Nixon's policy ideas, then your opinions about politics mean nothing.
Evan White
>The man used his powers as President to try to extralegally damage his political opponents.
Like Obama, who used the NSA not only to spy on Republicans but fellow Democrats and Judges that opposed some of his policies
Lucas King
To be fair hitler did the samething and lots of people claim he did nothing wrong
Lucas Diaz
finding him expensive wine and expensive drugs duh
Caleb Rivera
>contrarian love of Nixon if you're an actual Republican, you probably unironically like Nixon. he was made by the Republican party and went with it until the end
Kevin Barnes
After 12 years of Reagan/Bush and issues like Iran-Contra and general CIA abuses in Latin America, the Clintons would have seemed like a wonderful breath of fresh air when they burst on the national scene in the early 90s. And by the late 90s, I think Hunter Thompson was probably too far gone into his drug problems and general weirdness to really pay serious attention to politics. Like many people who became politically conscious in the 50s and 60s, Thompson failed to adjust to later changes in the political landscape and remained to some extent stuck in the worldview of their youth. I have no doubt that the young Hunter Thompson would have investigated the shenanigans of the Clintons (and, for that matter, of Trump) with the same dedication that he brought to his attacks on Nixon. But if his literary output is anything to judge by, Thompson was a spent force from 1980 or so onward. The young Thompson was never a blind supporter of any particular political side. He supported George McGovern, but McGovern was a genuinely good guy who, at the least, could be trusted, even if you disagreed with his politics. At the same time, he railed against the more mainstream Democrats of his day.
Connor Clark
the democrats were doing the same thing. plus, there's a reason why nixon won 2 terms.
Parker Ramirez
A fellow artist in Colorado did the exact same thing out of his own cannon in rural Colorado, for free, and people watched. Didn't cost $3m.
Justin Allen
Imagine that this is two thousand bottles of Sauvignon. The dude is a raging retard. Why do people look up to these monkeys really eludes me.
Sebastian Edwards
And if Obama did it too, what of it? I'm not here to defend Obama. When will right-wingers realize that not everyone who criticizes them is a leftist?
Cooper Morris
>the democrats were doing the same thing. I'm sure you have proof, right? >plus, there's a reason why nixon won 2 terms. FDR won 4 terms. Does that mean you have to love FDR?
Kayden Allen
Fuck me, I would shoot people out of the cannon for free any day. They would not even need to be ashes, or dead for that matter.
Alexander Thompson
Yeah, but it seems that Thompson's funeral had 280 people attending and the cannon was on top of a tower.
Jason Sanders
This happened regularly in Creede, Colorado.
The artist was Paul Stone, and he had a cannon that shot bowling balls for amusement.
His problem was, apparently, he wasn't Hunter Thompson.
Aiden Walker
Because it almost always a scumbag reddit commie scum that shits on Nixon. Lets be honest here user, you are definitely a lefty commie subhuman but won't self identify as one because it means defending positions that you can't and lets you weasel your way out of any argument.
Hudson Wilson
>thread about Depp >talking about Reagan
What
Nolan Lopez
Depp portrayed Reagan in a biopic a few years back.
Cooper Anderson
No, if I had to call myself something I'd say I'm a classical liberal. I support free markets, free trade, and a moderately sized (smaller than now, but not too small) government with well-chosen safety nets. I support tighter immigration controls, but I am not a white nationalist. I'm socially liberal but dislike SJWism and political correctness. I am most definitely not a supporter of communism. In fact, if you are a typical Sup Forumstard you're actually more of a communist than I am, since you want more big government intervention in the economy and cultural issues. Got any more idiocy you want to spew?
Justin Thomas
>spent $3 million to blast Hunter >Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. He gets a pass for this one. if your eccentric famous friend wants his ashes shot out of a cannon and you have the means, by God you do it.
Juan Hill
>muh big government
kill yourself you pimpled faced high schooler
Jaxon Jackson
lel Jews are honestly the only possible reason anyone whould ever "spend" $30,000 a month on wine
William Hernandez
>$30,000 a month on wine
Even if every bottle of wine he drank cost as much as a new car, that's still a lot of alcohol.
Jaxon Hall
I'm a 34 year old software developer. Care to fail some more?
Brandon James
You are either commie trash, or nazi scum. It doesn't matter in the end since socialist vermin is socialist vermin, regardless of a paintjob.
Christian Clark
so 1 bottle a month?
Josiah Lopez
How much do new cars cost where you live?
Jackson Ross
Limited government =! big government
Michael Rogers
So a stupid person gets a ridiculous amount of money and loses sense of its value. Happens all the time with actors and athletes. What else is new?
Justin Wright
>josh hartnett
BUT WHHIIIY
Owen Hill
who do you think convinced him to spend 30k/month on wine and sell him said wine? Exactly! Your happy merchant.
Chase Brown
No God.
Carson Taylor
Nah. He just goes to fancy restaurants and buys the most expensive wines because expensive means quality. He thinks he has an infinite amount of money as his fortune would quite literally be that if he was spending reasonably. He's just another retard who gets mad from getting too much money and tries to blame it on the kikes.
Kevin Taylor
Superstars live in a bubble, which causes them to lose sight of how successful they truly are, they're lead to believe they're far bigger names.
Then rap stars have one enormous album or an actor has a string of good movies over the year. They wind up making far more money than they ever have that year.... then inevitably, they keep spending like the money is going to keep rolling in at that rate when, in entertainment, pay days are remarkably inconsistent and after a while, they're a small fraction of what they once were.
I kind of liked Depp back when he was Hollywood's reluctant art film guy gone mainstream. In the 90s, he had a string of great artsy films (most notably Burton projects) and he never quite seemed at home with Hollywood stars and directors. I think even at that point, he realized he wanted to make high art and he was beginning to diverge that so much that it was making him uncomfortable.
Then with Pirates of the Caribbean he sold his soul to the devil. It was the exact type of Hollywood shit that he lamented all his life. But I'm sure the pay day was good. At this point he embraced being a conventional star of Hollywood garbage. Before, honestly most people did not know who he was and after he was every teenage girls wet dream. But he lost his integrity and he knew it so he began to party like MC Hammer for years.
Honestly, this retard deserves it. Ever since pirates he just plays Jack Sparrow in everything, I have trouble believing he was once a respected actor, those days seem so long ago.
Cooper Rivera
Hunter S. Thompson made snuff films with acts of pedophilia in them and was either murdered or killed himself because of it.
Levi Morgan
I think you're mostly right, except for this: >Before, honestly most people did not know who he was and after he was every teenage girls wet dream. Depp was hugely famous and a major sex symbol long before Jack Sparrow.
Isaac Martin
>Ever since pirates he just plays Jack Sparrow in everything The fuck? Name all the movies this applies to.
Isaac Martinez
What's with Sup Forums and making major allegations, without any evidence, as if they were proven?
Hunter Butler
Lurk more, tourist.
Jason Jones
here's your proof
Wyatt Carter
It's just how the internet works in general.
Brody Gray
Is /r9k/ still making these? Christ.
Elijah Diaz
...
Andrew Smith
>Depp was hugely famous and a major sex symbol long before Jack Sparrow. Agreed but with the previous generation. Chicks who are now in their teens and young adulthood were not in knowledge of him before Pirates.
Tyler Garcia
I thought teenagers liked to watch fear and loathing
Andrew Williams
Hmm... that makes sense. I'm 34, so I just remember how many girls had the hots for Depp back when I was in college.
Carson King
Not really.
Isaiah Smith
>Depp was hugely famous and a major sex symbol long before Jack Sparrow.
Sort of. I would venture to say that if you went back into the 90s and asked people at random who Johnny Depp was 3 of 4 wouldn't know. He wasn't a big name, but he did tend to be in notable art movies (that most people had not seen even though they were big in certain circles).
Art girls loved him. Mainstream people didn't know who he was. Though his popularity did begin to take off hugely in the late 90s. There was a point when From Hell came out that it seemed like he was in 5 big projects every year. And then pirates and he became about as picky with his scripts as Jack fucking Black.
Back in the day, I would say proudly that I really liked him as an actor... I cannot say that about his post-pirates career.
Noah Morales
what does that even mean?
Jace Young
People like my college friends and I watched it back in the early 2000s, but we're not necessarily representative of the wider population. We were the kind of kids who liked 60s/70s music more than more recent music, read Jack Kerouac, and experimented with psychedelics.
Xavier Thompson
What?
Everyone knew him from 21 Jump Street, stop larping as a middle age man user
Blake Powell
21 Jump Street made him popular with teens but he wasn't a super recognized movie star until later on. He spent most of the 90s doing smaller projects that interested him.
David Perry
Samefag.
Camden Wilson
congratulations, you've spotted me care to provide an argument?
Hunter Ross
I doubt that guy even knows himself.
Luke Hill
>the CIA gaslit Nixon
Are you forgetting the part where he ordered the democrats be burgled to find election material? And tried to cover it up? And tried to block an investigation? Did the CIA make him do this? And why would the CIA do this, he was letting tem do whatever the fuck they wanted in Vietnam and chile and elsewhere. How do I phoenix program?
Gabriel Nguyen
Except he didnt
Joshua Johnson
No they didnt
Joseph King
t. samefag
Eli Brown
Amber Heard and her lesbian lovers
Nolan Rodriguez
Maybe they should've done a Kickstarter.
Luke Young
Wine snob chiming in. A $30-$50 bottle is vastly better. Pay an extra $100-1,000 for it to be correctly cellared and there's the added costs. Having said that, I too have had some excellent $15 bottles.
Spending that much a month seems excessive.
Owen Jenkins
Sup Forumstard you could have been the first one in this thread to mention AMBER HEARD but you fucked it up and blabbed about communism. What a derp.