Slowly, people are coming out in his defense. Paul Bettany, his first wife, Laurie Holden. Looks like he's got backup in Hollywood.
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I had a friend whose husband wanted a prenup. The attorney they met with talked him out of it. That was OK; they stayed married. However, he didn't make a will and died; his kids got nothing and they're pissed.
I have no idea what happened and wouldn't speculate at this point.
But if she did marry him for his money is that worse than him marrying her for her looks? The older rich man marrying a hot younger women is a situation as old as time. Both parties are getting exactly what they are looking for.
People who don't make wills are in total denial. My parents are in their late 70's and about 10 years ago they told me I was executor of their will. I have a packet with all account numbers, insurance info, lawyers etc. Their funerals have been arranged and paid for. It's a little morbid, but a very nice thing to do for your loved ones.
But if she did marry him for his money is that worse than him marrying her for her looks? The older rich man marrying a hot younger women is a situation as old as time. Both parties are getting exactly what they are looking for.
People who don't make wills are in total denial. My parents are in their late 70's and about 10 years ago they told me I was executor of their will. I have a packet with all account numbers, insurance info, lawyers etc. Their funerals have been arranged and paid for. It's a little morbid, but a very nice thing to do for your loved ones.
I wouldn't be surprised if Johnny pulls a Kathy Griffen and emails all his buddies and asks them to tweet support for him like she did when she left FP
If she's a gold digger, then he should have had a prenup. He's not innocent here whether or not he hit her. Her theatrics are over the top and should stop, otherwise no one will believe her.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/05/28/johnny-depp-ex-wife-denies-abuse/
Johnny Depp's Ex-Wife: He Isn't a Woman Beater
Johnny Depp would never lay a hand on a woman and isn't capable of hurting anyone ... so says Johnny's first wife, Lori Anne Allison.
Lori, who was married to Johnny from 1983 to 1985, tells friends she doesn't believe Amber Heard's claim that Johnny brutalized her multiple times during their short marriage.
Lori's saying Johnny never got physical with her during their relationship ... he never even screamed.
She calls him a "soft person" who is even kind to animals. Lori and Johnny had a dog during their marriage and he was more loving with the pooch than most parents are to their kids.
Lori and Johnny are still friends and spoke as recently as last week when she called to offer her condolences over his mother's death.
TMZ broke the story ... Amber claims Johnny went on a violent tirade while high and drunk last weekend and smashed an iPhone on her face.
Johnny was 20 and Lori Anne was 25 when they got married.
pics vis Daily Mail
Johnny Depp's Ex-Wife: He Isn't a Woman Beater
Johnny Depp would never lay a hand on a woman and isn't capable of hurting anyone ... so says Johnny's first wife, Lori Anne Allison.
Lori, who was married to Johnny from 1983 to 1985, tells friends she doesn't believe Amber Heard's claim that Johnny brutalized her multiple times during their short marriage.
Lori's saying Johnny never got physical with her during their relationship ... he never even screamed.
She calls him a "soft person" who is even kind to animals. Lori and Johnny had a dog during their marriage and he was more loving with the pooch than most parents are to their kids.
Lori and Johnny are still friends and spoke as recently as last week when she called to offer her condolences over his mother's death.
TMZ broke the story ... Amber claims Johnny went on a violent tirade while high and drunk last weekend and smashed an iPhone on her face.
Johnny was 20 and Lori Anne was 25 when they got married.
pics vis Daily Mail
Well I expected that to counter Amber's claims.
I'm glad he didn't beat her. That doesn't mean he couldn't be violent to other women. She was married to him for 2 years over 30 years ago - before Amber was even born.
As for Paul Bettany, I like him - great actor. But clearly he doesn't know d*ck about what went on behind closed doors with Amber and JD.I'm sure Johnny is a sweet, kind man to his pals. People who (allegedly) abuse don't generally go around being chatty about it to their friends.
Again, this is spin from Johnny's camp. Amber's side will soon counter.
What matters is what can be proved on either side.
Get the popcorn, this is going to be a PR war until we get through with legal proceedings.
I'm glad he didn't beat her. That doesn't mean he couldn't be violent to other women. She was married to him for 2 years over 30 years ago - before Amber was even born.
As for Paul Bettany, I like him - great actor. But clearly he doesn't know d*ck about what went on behind closed doors with Amber and JD.I'm sure Johnny is a sweet, kind man to his pals. People who (allegedly) abuse don't generally go around being chatty about it to their friends.
Again, this is spin from Johnny's camp. Amber's side will soon counter.
What matters is what can be proved on either side.
Get the popcorn, this is going to be a PR war until we get through with legal proceedings.
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From People Magazine 1994
The star of TV's 21 Jump Street and the movies Edward Scissorhands and Benny & Joon has, reportedly, wiled away at least one L.A. evening hanging by his fingertips from a fifth-story parking garage at the Beverly Center alongside close friend Nicolas Cage. And then there is Depp's Bart Simpson-esque penchant for checking into hotels under ribald pseudonyms. Why would a 31-year-old man tell a front-desk clerk that he is "Mr. Donkey Penis"? Because, you see, it makes for such interesting wake-up calls.
But maybe it's time Depp got a serious wake-up call. Friends such as Gates insist that "Johnny is the most gentle, sweetest soul who ever walked the earth," and John Waters, who directed Depp in 1990's Cry-Baby, says he "is probably the best young actor working in America today." Yet these days the chain-smoking, tattoo-festooned, Viper Room-owning movie star seems to be dancing on the edge of danger. At 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 13, a green knit hat pulled down over his forehead, Depp was arrested on charges of criminal mischief after trashing his $l,200-a-night room at New York City's tony Mark Hotel. Police suspect he was drunk and had been fighting with his girlfriend, the superwaif supermodel Kate Moss, 20. After several hours in a holding cell, he was released and told that the charges would be dismissed if he stayed out of trouble for six months and agreed to reimburse the Mark $9,767.12 in damages and guest fees.
That was just the most highly publicized of Depp's recent problems. One week earlier, visiting Moss in her native London, he reportedly caused a ruckus in a pub when 27-year-old photographer Jonathan Walpole mistakenly picked up Depp's glass from the bar. "He pulled both my ears very hard," Walpole told London's Evening Standard, adding that "some ape" who was with Depp "leaped on my back, put his arm round my neck and tried to force my head to the floor."
To many of Depp's friends these incidents are, as one put it, "just Johnny being Johnny," the sort of outbursts they have come to expect on occasion from an actor who can be as otherworldly as the character he played in Scissorhands. "I think Johnny obviously has a temper, but this is a very minor incident," John Waters says of the Mark melee. "The room service must have been bad." However, Marlon Brando, who befriended Depp when the two shot the upcoming movie Don Juan DeMarco and The Centerfold earlier this year, was worried enough to place a phone call to Depp's lawyer David Breitbart when he heard about the arrest. "He said he was very concerned about Johnny's well-being," says Breitbart, "and if there was anything he could do to help, he would like to."
Surely it's time to take stock when you're eligible for counseling from Marlon Brando. Yet Timothy Leary, the '60s LSD guru who is the godfather of Depp's onetime fiancée Winona Ryder, says that Depp is both "wild and charitable." Most friends prefer to focus on the charitable side, offering tales of his kindness and generosity. Driving near the Austin, Texas, set of Grape during a downpour, Depp came across a homeless woman; he offered her a lift and gave her every cent he had on him. In a visit arranged by the Make-a-Wish Foundation, he brought a terminally ill, 11-year-old girl to the set of Ed Wood and hovered over her the entire day. He is said to wander, at 4 or 5 in the morning, outside the Viper Room, the Sunset Strip club where 23-year-old River Phoenix died of an overdose last Halloween, and hand out 50-and 100-dollar bills to the destitute huddled on the sidewalk.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104049,00.html
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The star of TV's 21 Jump Street and the movies Edward Scissorhands and Benny & Joon has, reportedly, wiled away at least one L.A. evening hanging by his fingertips from a fifth-story parking garage at the Beverly Center alongside close friend Nicolas Cage. And then there is Depp's Bart Simpson-esque penchant for checking into hotels under ribald pseudonyms. Why would a 31-year-old man tell a front-desk clerk that he is "Mr. Donkey Penis"? Because, you see, it makes for such interesting wake-up calls.
But maybe it's time Depp got a serious wake-up call. Friends such as Gates insist that "Johnny is the most gentle, sweetest soul who ever walked the earth," and John Waters, who directed Depp in 1990's Cry-Baby, says he "is probably the best young actor working in America today." Yet these days the chain-smoking, tattoo-festooned, Viper Room-owning movie star seems to be dancing on the edge of danger. At 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 13, a green knit hat pulled down over his forehead, Depp was arrested on charges of criminal mischief after trashing his $l,200-a-night room at New York City's tony Mark Hotel. Police suspect he was drunk and had been fighting with his girlfriend, the superwaif supermodel Kate Moss, 20. After several hours in a holding cell, he was released and told that the charges would be dismissed if he stayed out of trouble for six months and agreed to reimburse the Mark $9,767.12 in damages and guest fees.
That was just the most highly publicized of Depp's recent problems. One week earlier, visiting Moss in her native London, he reportedly caused a ruckus in a pub when 27-year-old photographer Jonathan Walpole mistakenly picked up Depp's glass from the bar. "He pulled both my ears very hard," Walpole told London's Evening Standard, adding that "some ape" who was with Depp "leaped on my back, put his arm round my neck and tried to force my head to the floor."
To many of Depp's friends these incidents are, as one put it, "just Johnny being Johnny," the sort of outbursts they have come to expect on occasion from an actor who can be as otherworldly as the character he played in Scissorhands. "I think Johnny obviously has a temper, but this is a very minor incident," John Waters says of the Mark melee. "The room service must have been bad." However, Marlon Brando, who befriended Depp when the two shot the upcoming movie Don Juan DeMarco and The Centerfold earlier this year, was worried enough to place a phone call to Depp's lawyer David Breitbart when he heard about the arrest. "He said he was very concerned about Johnny's well-being," says Breitbart, "and if there was anything he could do to help, he would like to."
Surely it's time to take stock when you're eligible for counseling from Marlon Brando. Yet Timothy Leary, the '60s LSD guru who is the godfather of Depp's onetime fiancée Winona Ryder, says that Depp is both "wild and charitable." Most friends prefer to focus on the charitable side, offering tales of his kindness and generosity. Driving near the Austin, Texas, set of Grape during a downpour, Depp came across a homeless woman; he offered her a lift and gave her every cent he had on him. In a visit arranged by the Make-a-Wish Foundation, he brought a terminally ill, 11-year-old girl to the set of Ed Wood and hovered over her the entire day. He is said to wander, at 4 or 5 in the morning, outside the Viper Room, the Sunset Strip club where 23-year-old River Phoenix died of an overdose last Halloween, and hand out 50-and 100-dollar bills to the destitute huddled on the sidewalk.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104049,00.html
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Continued from People Magazine 1994
But there is a darker side to Depp as well. Before he left the Mark Hotel in handcuffs, he had been arrested on three previous occasions: for getting into a tiff-with an L.A. police officer over a jaywalking ticket, for speeding in Arizona and for assaulting a hotel security guard in Vancouver, B.C. He has engaged since childhood in thrill-seeking escapades that seem downright self-destructive. In a caper that even he, looking back, described as "a really ridiculous thing," Depp blew on fire with a mouthful of gasoline. His face ignited, and it was only the quick moves of a friend that saved him from becoming a burn casualty. His arms bear rows of scars from self-inflicted knife wounds, each one commemorating what Depp considers an important life event. "I have," he once explained, "a funny relationship with my body.... Ah, it sounds so stupid, but for me there shouldn't be any halfway."
He has certainly been partying full tilt of late. The night after his release from jail, Depp, flanked by leather-clad, heavily tattooed bikers, was at Babyland, a Lower East Side bar filled with cribs and nursery paraphernalia. Jerry Price, a Manhattan pipe fitter, claims that Depp bumped into him at the club's bar, after which Price says he was pummeled by the biker bodyguards and hit with a rocking horse. Attorney Breitbart denies Depp's involvement, and Babyland regulars say it was Price who provoked the scuffle. Whatever the truth, the skirmish didn't dampen Depp's spirit. The next night he and the bikers hit the downtown nightclubs again, landing at the Limelight for the 3:30 a.m. pageant featuring drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals. And, at Dan Lynch, yet another hip watering hole, Depp recently directed and starred in a video for Shane MacGowan and the Popes. Their song? "That Woman's Got Me Drinking."
The woman who would seem to have Depp drinking these days is, of course, the ultrathin Kate Moss, who has appeared topless alongside Marky Mark in Calvin Klein ads. She and Depp met last February at the Manhattan bistro Cafe Tabac, and Moss has said, "I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together." And they were: at the L.A. club Smash Palace just weeks after they met, when Depp previewed Banter, an eight-minute antidrug movie he made; vacationing on St. Bart's a few weeks later; at Manhattan's Fez club in April for a Johnny Cash concert. In July, after filming wrapped on Don Juan, Depp flew to Paris to be with Moss, who was strolling the catwalk at the couture shows. She gave him a ring-shaped platinum rattle filled with black pearls; he had already given her a strand of diamonds. Depp is even having his Winona Forever tattoo removed from his right bicep, a painful procedure that he's taking one letter at a time. At the moment it reads Wino Forever.
Moss and Depp, a friend says, "can't keep their hands, lips, mouths, legs off of each other." Nor are they always successful in keeping their brawls private. In June they shouted at each other in the dining room of Manhattan's Royalton Hotel. Says a longtime friend of Depp's: "Instead of hitting women, he just gets angry and lets off steam in other ways."
Depp seems to be the kind of passionate fellow who finds scant middle ground between picking someone up and proposing. He married Lori Allison, a makeup artist from Florida, when he was 20 and she was 25; they divorced two years later. He has since been engaged at least three times—to actresses Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey and Winona Ryder—and Tally Chanel, a B-movie actress, also says she got a shot at being Depp's fiancée. They met when she was working as a hostess at the Hollywood premiere of Die Hard 2 in July 1990. "I helped him out of his limo," the 27-year-old recalls. "Our eyes locked, and he asked me to marry him." They dated for a year, spending quiet nights at Depp's Hollywood Hills home, ordering in food from a Chinese restaurant.
That boy has certainly come aways from Owensboro, Ky., where, the youngest of four siblings, he was born to Betty Sue and his father, John, now a city engineer living in Hallandale, Fla. When Depp was 7, his family moved to Miramar, Fla., and lived in a motel for nearly a year, until his father found a job. Johnny, meanwhile, started smoking at 12, lost his virginity around age 13 and, he has said, "did every kind of drug there was by 14." At 16, a year after his parents divorced, he dropped out of high school and joined a garage band, The Kids. "Puberty was very vague," he has said. "I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar."
Still, Depp's own heart throbbed only for Winona Ryder, whom he first spotted in June 1989 at the premiere of her movie Great Balls of Fire. "There's been nothing in my 27 years that's comparable to the feeling I have with Winona," Depp said. Five months after their first date, Depp gave Ryder an engagement ring; three years later they broke up. The end of their romance left Depp disconsolate. "He was so desperately in love with Winona," says a friend, "that when they broke up, he wouldn't admit it was over for the longest time."
Lately he has focused those same intense affections on Moss—even saying, according to one friend, "that he wanted to have a baby with Kate." One wonders if the two dream of a hotel room with a white picket fence. Moss herself doesn't have a permanent residence, and since Depp's Hollywood home was destroyed in the January earthquake, he has lived a high-class vagabond life, staying mostly in hotels. L.A.'s Chateau Marmont and Hollywood Roosevelt are two of his current favorites.
Depp's real home, in a way, is the Viper Room. When he bought the club in August 1993, along with two partners, he envisioned a "cool little underground place," he has said, where he and friends could listen to Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Chet Baker over a first-rate sound system. Instead the club became the hippest stop on the Sunset Strip, with block-long lines of young Hollywood types and tourists who want to see the place where River Phoenix, convulsing on the sidewalk, spent the last moments of his life.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104049,00.html
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I posted that NOT to slam him , but to counter all this stuff about Johnny is such a nice guy. He may be, he may be a great friend. But he has a dark side. Whether or not it manifested the way Amber says it did, will have to be proved. But I'm not looking at the guy with rose coloured glasses either.
But there is a darker side to Depp as well. Before he left the Mark Hotel in handcuffs, he had been arrested on three previous occasions: for getting into a tiff-with an L.A. police officer over a jaywalking ticket, for speeding in Arizona and for assaulting a hotel security guard in Vancouver, B.C. He has engaged since childhood in thrill-seeking escapades that seem downright self-destructive. In a caper that even he, looking back, described as "a really ridiculous thing," Depp blew on fire with a mouthful of gasoline. His face ignited, and it was only the quick moves of a friend that saved him from becoming a burn casualty. His arms bear rows of scars from self-inflicted knife wounds, each one commemorating what Depp considers an important life event. "I have," he once explained, "a funny relationship with my body.... Ah, it sounds so stupid, but for me there shouldn't be any halfway."
He has certainly been partying full tilt of late. The night after his release from jail, Depp, flanked by leather-clad, heavily tattooed bikers, was at Babyland, a Lower East Side bar filled with cribs and nursery paraphernalia. Jerry Price, a Manhattan pipe fitter, claims that Depp bumped into him at the club's bar, after which Price says he was pummeled by the biker bodyguards and hit with a rocking horse. Attorney Breitbart denies Depp's involvement, and Babyland regulars say it was Price who provoked the scuffle. Whatever the truth, the skirmish didn't dampen Depp's spirit. The next night he and the bikers hit the downtown nightclubs again, landing at the Limelight for the 3:30 a.m. pageant featuring drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals. And, at Dan Lynch, yet another hip watering hole, Depp recently directed and starred in a video for Shane MacGowan and the Popes. Their song? "That Woman's Got Me Drinking."
The woman who would seem to have Depp drinking these days is, of course, the ultrathin Kate Moss, who has appeared topless alongside Marky Mark in Calvin Klein ads. She and Depp met last February at the Manhattan bistro Cafe Tabac, and Moss has said, "I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together." And they were: at the L.A. club Smash Palace just weeks after they met, when Depp previewed Banter, an eight-minute antidrug movie he made; vacationing on St. Bart's a few weeks later; at Manhattan's Fez club in April for a Johnny Cash concert. In July, after filming wrapped on Don Juan, Depp flew to Paris to be with Moss, who was strolling the catwalk at the couture shows. She gave him a ring-shaped platinum rattle filled with black pearls; he had already given her a strand of diamonds. Depp is even having his Winona Forever tattoo removed from his right bicep, a painful procedure that he's taking one letter at a time. At the moment it reads Wino Forever.
Moss and Depp, a friend says, "can't keep their hands, lips, mouths, legs off of each other." Nor are they always successful in keeping their brawls private. In June they shouted at each other in the dining room of Manhattan's Royalton Hotel. Says a longtime friend of Depp's: "Instead of hitting women, he just gets angry and lets off steam in other ways."
Depp seems to be the kind of passionate fellow who finds scant middle ground between picking someone up and proposing. He married Lori Allison, a makeup artist from Florida, when he was 20 and she was 25; they divorced two years later. He has since been engaged at least three times—to actresses Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey and Winona Ryder—and Tally Chanel, a B-movie actress, also says she got a shot at being Depp's fiancée. They met when she was working as a hostess at the Hollywood premiere of Die Hard 2 in July 1990. "I helped him out of his limo," the 27-year-old recalls. "Our eyes locked, and he asked me to marry him." They dated for a year, spending quiet nights at Depp's Hollywood Hills home, ordering in food from a Chinese restaurant.
That boy has certainly come aways from Owensboro, Ky., where, the youngest of four siblings, he was born to Betty Sue and his father, John, now a city engineer living in Hallandale, Fla. When Depp was 7, his family moved to Miramar, Fla., and lived in a motel for nearly a year, until his father found a job. Johnny, meanwhile, started smoking at 12, lost his virginity around age 13 and, he has said, "did every kind of drug there was by 14." At 16, a year after his parents divorced, he dropped out of high school and joined a garage band, The Kids. "Puberty was very vague," he has said. "I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar."
Still, Depp's own heart throbbed only for Winona Ryder, whom he first spotted in June 1989 at the premiere of her movie Great Balls of Fire. "There's been nothing in my 27 years that's comparable to the feeling I have with Winona," Depp said. Five months after their first date, Depp gave Ryder an engagement ring; three years later they broke up. The end of their romance left Depp disconsolate. "He was so desperately in love with Winona," says a friend, "that when they broke up, he wouldn't admit it was over for the longest time."
Lately he has focused those same intense affections on Moss—even saying, according to one friend, "that he wanted to have a baby with Kate." One wonders if the two dream of a hotel room with a white picket fence. Moss herself doesn't have a permanent residence, and since Depp's Hollywood home was destroyed in the January earthquake, he has lived a high-class vagabond life, staying mostly in hotels. L.A.'s Chateau Marmont and Hollywood Roosevelt are two of his current favorites.
Depp's real home, in a way, is the Viper Room. When he bought the club in August 1993, along with two partners, he envisioned a "cool little underground place," he has said, where he and friends could listen to Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Chet Baker over a first-rate sound system. Instead the club became the hippest stop on the Sunset Strip, with block-long lines of young Hollywood types and tourists who want to see the place where River Phoenix, convulsing on the sidewalk, spent the last moments of his life.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104049,00.html
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I posted that NOT to slam him , but to counter all this stuff about Johnny is such a nice guy. He may be, he may be a great friend. But he has a dark side. Whether or not it manifested the way Amber says it did, will have to be proved. But I'm not looking at the guy with rose coloured glasses either.
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