Johnny Depp will teach you how to spend $2 million a month
Johnny Depp is known all over the world not only for his acting talent, but also for his extravagance and numerous oddities. It is not surprising that the lifestyle of the star is very extravagant, and also very expensive.
Thanks to Johnny's recent scandal with The Mandel Company (TMG), which manages his finances, it became known what he manages to spend $ 2 million a month on. Despite Depp's accusations against TMG of illegally using his funds, company representatives claim that in fact, for the past 17 years they have been doing everything possible to save Johnny's fortune from himself, but they have not been able to force the star to make more reasonable financial decisions. Let's try to understand the expensive preferences of the famous actor.
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The first item on Johnny Depp's list of expenses is real estate, for the purchase, renovation and furniture for which the actor spent about $ 75 million. Depp's 14 residences around the world include a chateau in the south of France with 45 acres of land worth $13.5 million, several islands in the Bahamas, houses in Hollywood and penthouse lofts in downtown Los Angeles, as well as a horse farm in Kentucky. Each of the houses is fully staffed.
Depp's car collection consists of 45 expensive cars, on which an unknown number of millions were spent. In fairness, it should be noted that, for example, Johnny did not spend a penny on this luxurious 1959 Chevrolet Corvette. The car that participated in the filming of the film "Rum Diary" was presented to him by the film producer Graham King as a thank you to "the man who has everything."
$18 million was spent on this gorgeous 47-meter yacht, plus another 6 for its modernization and design in 2008. However, it is difficult to blame Johnny for excessive extravagance, because in 2016 the yacht was already sold for more than 27 million — who would you think? — no less famous creator of "Harry Potter" J. K. Rowling.
Johnny refuses to fly anything other than private jets, preferring the Gulfstream GV, which costs him $200,000 a month.
The actor owns more than 70 collectible guitars.
On the wine alone, delivered by Johnny for personal consumption from different parts of the world, he spends about 30 thousand dollars a month. (Photo: ERIK PENDZICH/REX/Shutterstock)
The actor also owns a lot of expensive jewelry, which can often be seen on him in large quantities. (Photo: Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock)
According to TMG, Depp spent numerous millions on the purchase of rare and, of course, very expensive collectibles belonging to Hollywood stars of even greater magnitude than Johnny himself — such as Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. To store this impressive collection, he needs 12 storage rooms.
Special attention should be paid to the actor's art collection, which includes more than 200 works, including such giants of modern art as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This Basquiat self-portrait alone was sold in June 2016 at Christie's auction for $4.7 million. A total of eight works belonging to Depp were put up for sale. However, according to Johnny, "nothing can replace the warmth and spontaneity of Basquiat's poetry."
Depp constantly employs 40 people around the world, including round-the-clock personal security for himself and family members, which costs the star 300 thousand dollars a month. In addition, Johnny sometimes organizes himself an impressive police escort, as, for example, at the premiere of the same film "Rum Diary" in Los Angeles in 2011. (Photo: Matt Baron/BEI/BEI/Shutterstock)
TMG claims that over the years Depp has spent about $10 million to support friends, family members and some employees. This amount includes expenses for the maintenance of the actor's sister and now deceased mother. Johnny bought his mother a house in Hollywood for several million dollars and paid $35,000 a month to care for her during her illness. In addition, Depp sponsored his childhood friend's budding music label. It cost him $4 million and never generated any income.
But Johnny Depp would not be Johnny Depp if, in addition to the generally quite ordinary requests of any rich person, he would not spend as much as $3 million on something completely beyond the bounds of reason. Namely, the fulfillment of the last request of his friend Hunter S. Thompson, the most famous writer and journalist who shot himself at the age of 67. (Photo: ERIK C PENDZICH/REX/Shutterstock)
Back in 1978, in an interview with the BBC, Thompson said that he would like to arrange a "posthumous party" for his friends with the scattering of his own ashes from a cannon. These words were interpreted as the last will of the writer, and on August 20, 2005, Depp assumed the costs of its execution. For the shot, a special cannon was built on Thompson's farm in Colorado, mounted on a 47-meter-high tower. At the top of the tower was a huge six—fingered fist - a symbol of the genre of gonzo journalism invented by Thompson, through which the writer's ashes were shot at sunset. The posthumous party was attended by John Kerry, Jack Nicholson, John Cusack, Bill Murray, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn.
Well, to better understand what it took 3 million to do, watch this video.
To top off the picture, a mere trifle — according to TMG, Johnny's debt on Visa credit cards is 55 thousand dollars. (Photo: James Shaw/REX/Shutterstock)
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