Bloomberg Law
Oct. 18, 2017, 10:46 PM UTC

Johnny Depp Spreads Blame for Vanished Fortune to Showbiz Lawyer

By Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg News

Johnny Depp added his longtime entertainment lawyer to the list of people he says are to blame for his vanished fortune and wants $30 million in contingency fees paid over the past 18 years returned.

The star of Walt Disney Co.’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise -- which has garnered about $4.5 billion in box-office sales globally -- sued Jacob Bloom on Tuesday for malpractice, among other claims. Depp says the lawyer was in cahoots with his former business managers at the Management Group, who the actor is already suing for allegedly mismanaging hundreds of ...

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