After Depp filed a $25 million lawsuit against his former managers, they decided to make correspondence between their former client and their office public to prove that Depp had been well aware of his overspending for years. Deadline obtained emails from late 2009 that reveal Depp’s accounts were overdrawn by $4 million. TMG partner Joel Mandel emailed Depp to advise him to keep his holiday spending and travel within reasonable amounts. Note: the typos, grammatical, and spelling errors within these emails are from the authors, in this case Mandel and Depp. Mandel wrote Depp: That seems reasonable, right? After all, Depp was paying TMG to keep track of his accounts and balances. Well, Depp did not think that being asked to reign in his spending was a reasonable request at all. Depp replied: Depp’s email proves that one should stay in school, but besides that, he also was sure that he could make everything alright quickly. Depp pointed out that his upcoming movies should bring him back into the black, claiming that he would make $20 million from The Tourist, $35 million from the new Pirates of the Caribbean, and $20 million from Dark Shadows. The Management Group is maintaining that Depp and Depp alone is to blame for his financial situation. What can you expect when you spend $30,000 a month on wine and $3 million shooting Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon? Oh, and by the way, the “financially destitute” Depp has a net worth of $200 million. Stars! They are not just like us.
