Actor tells court he was left owing $100m in taxes after managers ‘stole my money’

Johnny Depp has told the high court that he lost $650m he made at the height of his Pirates of the Caribbean fame and was left owing $100m in taxes on account of business managers whom he accused of stealing from him.

On his final day of evidence in his libel case against the Sun, the actor denied he had been violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.

The court heard more about the backdrop to one alleged incident in which Depp turned up late to Heard’s 30th birthday party in 2016 after receiving bad news at a meeting about his finances. She alleged he later threw a magnum of champagne at her and pulled her hair.

Under examination from his barrister, Depp told the court: “I was in the early stages of learning from my recently acquired new business manager that the former business managers had taken quite a lot of my money. They stole my money.”

Pressed to say how much money was allegedly taken, he replied: “It was put to me this way, because I had no idea about money or amounts of money. Since Pirates [of the Caribbean] 2 and 3, I had – and this is ludicrous to have to state, it’s quite embarrassing – apparently I had made $650m, and when I sacked them, for the right reasons, I had not only lost $650m, but I was $100m in the hole because they [the previous business managers] had not paid the government my taxes for 17 years.”

Lol @ hiring business managers.

He's pretty dumb financially. Didn't even know how much he made wtf

from what I have gathered, it seems like Johnny Depp is just an extremely beta male who is also a drug addict.

this is in start contrast to the dashing, confident, funny guy he always portrays in movies.

I'm guessing Amber Heard was attracted to this Johnny, and slowly went batchit insane as she realized she was with a beta male.

This. And didn't he buy an island at one point? Doesn't know anything about money or how much he has. But buys an island. lmao. What a sucker.

I don't understand why they hire people to be in charge of all their money.
Either put it on the bank, or learn to buy some safe stock. or learn the real estate business and invest in that.

Heck, with 650 million, why even bother investing if you have no clue about it.
You're set for life. But these morons hire strangers to control all their money. Ridiculously stupid.
But then again he also married a psycho.

I feel sorry for depp. I dont agree with his politcal views but all gus exs say he was a good decent man who never layed a finger on them and some money hunger sloot comes along and wants to destroy him saying he use to best her..

If a man is guilty of beating a woman then throw the book at him but if the chic is lying out of greed and spite then the book shoukd be thrown twice as hard.

We'Re AlL iN tHiS tOgEtHeR

And other retarded assorted fairy tales from actors, actresses, and other people who don't understand how money works.

Absolutely pathetic lmao