Does Johnny Depp Get His Lines Through an Earpiece On Set?
You can't be Johnny Depp–famous and hope for a fight with your ex-managers (or a divorce marked by abuse allegations) to be quiet. But we'd be surprised if Captain Jack Sparrow knew it'd go this far.
Depp's January lawsuit against The Management Group, home to ex-managers Joel and Robert Mandel, says the company led him to $40 million in debt by failing to pay taxes, making unapproved loans and more. TMG's countersuit came full of allegations of its own, most notably the statement that the 53-year-old's spending habits "often knowingly" exceeded $2 million per month—including $30,000 in wine—"which he simply could not afford." The three-time Oscar nominee reportedly spent more than $3 million to shoot Hunter Thompson's ashes out of a custom-made cannon, and is said to own 14 homes, 45 high-end vehicles and 12 storage facilities worth of Hollywood-abilia.
In an amended complaint on Monday, TMG says Depp's filing is "replete with demonstrably false and fraudulent allegations." They add as evidence the new accusation that the Lone Ranger actor spent six-figure sums to keep on annual retainer a personal on-set sound engineer who would feed Depp lines "so that he no longer had to memorize [them]," writes attorney Michael Kump.
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