Johnny Depp has told the High Court he lost $650m when former business managers "stole" his money.
On his final day of giving evidence at his libel case against The Sun, the actor denied being violent towards ex-wife Amber Heard during their honeymoon, at Thanksgiving and after her 30th birthday party.
As he has done throughout the trial, Depp accused Heard of being "the aggressor" – and told the court details of a "bad meeting" about his finances which took place before the birthday party in April 2016.
The star's barrister, David Sherborne, brought up an alleged argument at the couple's LA penthouse.
"I was in the early stage of learning from my recently acquired new business manager that the former business managers had [taken] quite a lot of my money," the actor told the court. "They had stolen my money."
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Mr Sherborne asked: "How much money had they taken from you?"
Depp responded: "It was put to me this way, because I had no idea about money or amounts of money.
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"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 650 million US dollars (£510m) and when I sacked them, for the right reasons, I had not only lost 650 million dollars, but I was 100 million dollars in the hole because they (the previous business managers) had not paid the government my taxes for 17 years."
The court also heard that Depp contracted a superbug after his finger was severed in an incident in Australia in March 2015, which the actor has already been questioned about during the hearing.
The star said he "ended up getting MRSA" after having surgery to put a pin in a broken bone in his finger, with the injury occurring, he says, after Heard threw a bottle at him. She denies this claim.
Depp denied an alleged incident of domestic violence against Heard after they returned from Australia, saying he would not have been able to attack her because he was wearing a cast with "a little dinosaur" on it at the time.
He said he had decided that if he was going to have to wear one he should have the children's "wraparound" on it as it was "more fun".
Depp was said to have grabbed Heard by the hair with one hand and hit her "repeatedly in the head with the other".
His lawyer said: "And with that cast on, would you Read More – Source
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