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Arwa Mahdawi

Depp comes up smelling of roses despite defamation trial’s catalogue of misogyny

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Johnny Depp, the face of of Dior’s Sauvage fragrance despite a British court finding that a newspaper’s description of him as a ‘wife beater’ was not defamatory.
Johnny Depp, the face of of Dior’s Sauvage fragrance despite a British court in essence labelling him as a ‘wife beater’. Photograph: Rocco Spaziani/UPI/Shutterstock

Here’s Johnny! The king of Cannes and cologne

Johnny Depp seems to be on top of the world. Almost one year after he won a messy defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, the actor’s career is going gangbusters. His latest movie, Jeanne du Barry, opened the Cannes Film and received a seven-minute standing ovation. His face is plastered all over Paris billboards advertising the film. And, to top things off, he’s just signed a record three-year, $20m deal to remain the face of the Dior men’s fragrance Sauvage. To put this deal into context, Robert Pattinson got $12m to serve as a spokesperson for Dior Homme, according to Variety – and most A-listers with fragrance deals reportedly earn about $2m-$4m a year. So Depp is very much the king of cologne.

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