However, it’s perhaps worth pointing out that, while testifying in his infamous 2022 court case, the Edward Scissorhands actor insisted he would not even accept an offer of “$300 million and a million alpacas” to reprise his role in a future Pirates Of The Caribbean film, after claiming Disney had dropped him from the franchise years earlier.
Depp has been a controversial figure in Hollywood ever since his ex-wife Amber Heard alleged during their divorce proceedings in 2016 that he had been abusive towards her in their marriage, which he denied at the time.
They later reached a settlement and issued a joint statement which read: “Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.”
In 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation over an opinion piece in which she wrote that she had been a victim of domestic abuse, without mentioning anyone, including her famous ex-husband, by name.
After a prolific court case, a jury found in 2022 that Heard had defamed Depp with the statements in her opinion piece years earlier.
Two years prior, Depp also sued the publishers of The Sun newspaper over a piece describing him as a “wife-beater”. The UK’s High Court Of Justice eventually ruled that the “great majority” of Heard’s allegations of abuse could be proven to the civil standard, and as a result The Sun’s description of him was “substantially true”.
Depp appealed this verdict, but the request was eventually denied.
