Johnny Depp: Cool or Fool?

i am absolutely certain i'd be able to manage $650m without a hitch

of course there's no way to know for sure without trying, so if anyone has a spare two-thirds of a billion kicking around they'd like to offload, ilxmail me and let's get this valuable social experiment underway

Most people who find themselves diving into a Scrooge McDuck money pool after a run of luck end up hiring at least semi-competent help and avoiding too many consecutive bad bets. Depp seems to be unable to recognize his own role in any of his decisions.

Haven't they done this study, with lottery winners?

There was a study, I thought, that lottery winners are more likely to declare bankruptcy in 3-5 years than the average American.

http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/powerball-lottery-winners/

Those people were pre-selected from a pool of morons. They played the lottery.

pretty sure odds of winning the lottery are better than the odds of moving to Los Angeles to become a huge movie star.

Probably about the same. And?

having senescent Brando and HS Thompson as your confidantes is not the best move

xpost Exactly, we're dealing with a huge range of self-selecting morons.

I prefer to read that post as if it were not an xpost

people in general aren't good w their money. look at how national cc debt continues to climb.

also lol @ "semi competent help" yes will file that next to the semi competent contractors hired to do the carpet and fucked that up or the plumbers that took forever with your bathroom but no all that changes you win millions of dollars you become a finance expert able to scope out only honest accountants.

my millionaire fantasy is actually being able to hire an additional contractor to fix all the mistakes the first one made, and then a third one to fix the mistakes the second one made.

Fuck you, Adam.

not in the mood for your shit today

I was trying to figure out what "vintage wine" he drinks, and found this item yesterday from here:

"Depp also sports a tattoo proclaiming ‘Wino forever’, although the original wording was ‘Winona forever’ – a relic from previous girlfriend, actress Winona Ryder."

"Hey we're probably all feckless spendthrift dorks when you really think about it and you can tell because of how people on low incomes waste their money" is primo ilx save-a-wanker

Depp is at full Depardieu.

Seems odd to give the exact address of Depp's London pad in the first para.

It's a rental, not his home - he was there for a few weeks and has been gone for months.

Ok, Depp is mostly into bordeaux (or at least used to be). I looked it up too.

I won't bore you with tales of being greedy/I'm just into chugging bordeaux/I'm into chugging bordeaux

I could easily maintain a lifestyle of 2 bottles of $1-2k bottles a day.

"Hey we're probably all feckless spendthrift dorks when you really think about it and you can tell because of how people on low incomes waste their money" is primo ilx save-a-wanker

― The Savic Detectives (Noodle Vague), Friday, June 22, 2018 11:51 AM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was speaking for myself sorry to have used the royal we and marred your fiscal reputation

I would do the same thing with $650 million that I currently with like $75,000, viz., shove it into Vanguard index funds

anyway this article was astounding, talking to the press is a mistake for almost everyone, especially famous people embroiled in multimilliondollar litigation who viciously abused their wife

damn silby ballin out

silby can I borrow $75,000

Wasn't especially thinking of your post upper miss but yeah I did misread it

anyway there's a lot of reasons why you're almost compelled to make poor financial choices if you're living within touching difference of the poverty line. Increased cost of/need for credit for one thing, if you're wealthy and sensible you don't need to be fucking with things like that.

yeah, being poor is more expensive in a lot of ways

so much amazing shit in that article, but this is my favorite:

When Depp bought an island in the Bahamas, it was Brando, owning his own Tahitian island, who advised him to make sure his house is above sea level.

thought everyione knew about the wino forever tattoo

"I knew"

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img-ione-skye_091022536724.jpg

I think Adam’s post made me upset because I really don’t believe most people are irresponsible twits. A lot of people play the powerball lottery occasionally because why not? It’s beer money. But a lot of the ones who win are decidedly not capable of understanding that ten or twenty bucks a week could be better served via silby’s strategy.

The more interesting thing about Depp and his situation is how he seems so insistent that his misfortune is the fault of others, including his close relatives, who betrayed him. There’s no self awareness or examination, just projection and a bit of a persecution complex.

And perhaps the saddest thing is that when he could maybe still be doing entertaining or maybe even sublime stuff with the gifts he was given, he’s just wallowing and nobody really cares. A lame cautionary tale. Also, he’s clearly a dickhead, but that’s not even news.

I wouldn't go broke because I'd probably just have a nice house on a cliff over the ocean and try to spend a decade getting stoned and reading, so I'd inevitably fall off the cliff to my death long before the Powerball winnings ran out.

Hard to believe Unison Records didn't become a moneymaker with The Glam Skanks and the frontman for The Slackers
http://unisonmusic.com/artists.html

wow that RS piece is amazing and depressing !
I'm not gonna cry over a billionaire's problems but that's sad for the guy (which I liked at first in 21 JS then his first movies and now don't care at all about).
That said, I'm not sure at all I would be able to manage hundred's of millions of $ and I consider myself quite reasonable financially !
More money, more problems, I guess...

you only really hear about the ones that fuck it up maybe

id be quite competently low-key billionaire i think

The thing is it’s not like you would be your actual self with your environment, balance, relatives, etc. (Unless we talk about lottery money...).
The money would come from somewhere which would imply work/business partners, hanger-ons, entourage, greedy friends/family/lovers, financial advisors, investments, etc.
I totally understand that someone would easily fuck up...

you only really hear about the ones that fuck it up maybe

^^^^

And of course someone like JD is certainly going to crash spectacularly in such a situation !

hoo boy :(

Johnny Depp has accused ex-wife Amber Heard of having “painted-on bruises”, as he denied being physically abusive in newly filed court documents.

Hollywood actors Depp and Heard married in 2015 before an acrimonious divorce two years later, with both sides accusing the other of violence. After Aquaman star Heard wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in December 2018, describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse, Depp launched a $50m (£39m) defamation lawsuit against her. Heard asked a judge in Virginia to dismiss the lawsuit, drawing a new response from Depp.

Depp, 55, wrote in a declaration: “I have denied Ms Heard’s allegations vehemently since she first made them in May 2016 when she walked into court to obtain a temporary restraining order with painted-on bruises that witnesses and surveillance footage show she did not possess each day of the preceding week … I will continue to deny them for the rest of my life.”

Depp added: “I never abused Ms Heard or any other woman.” He then went on to allege Heard was the aggressor in the relationship. He said: “She was the perpetrator, and I was the victim. While mixing prescription amphetamines and non-prescription drugs with alcohol, Ms Heard committed innumerable acts of domestic violence against me, often in the presence of a third-party witness, which in some instances caused me serious bodily harm.”

lux aeterna

lost the libel case

Don’t care about this guy or these films but lol

This is going to be a news dump Friday for the record books https://t.co/qXGZPKr9Vl

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Kinda shoot yourself in the foot when your characters are all covered in layers of makeup and wigs and shit. I mean, they pretty easily replaced Dumbledore.

I might be a dope, but I feel sorry for him. It seems like an awful lot of his problems stem from his drinking, and he certainly does not seem able or inclined to rein that in.

was that letter written on a typewriter?

still doing the hunter thompson larp thing I see

Was he a wife-beater too?

he was, yeah

If you read one article about this, make it this one.

How many people here now feel that if a man they respect, known for his gender equality advocacy, can dismiss claims of domestic violence based on enjoyable experiences with the accused, they can, too?