Johnny Depp Scores $20 Million Deal With Dior, the Largest Men’s Fragrance Contract to Date: Report
12.05.2023 - 20:45
/ usmagazine.com
Johnny Depp is making history with Dior. The actor reportedly signed a new $20 million deal with the luxury label to be the face of the brand’s men’s fragrance.
The million-dollar agreement, which was reported by Variety on Friday, May 12, is the biggest men’s fragrance partnership to ever exist. Robert Pattinson became the face of the Dior Homme fragrance in June 2013, sealing his role with the fashion house for $12 million.
While Depp’s $20 million contract is new, his work with Dior is not. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 59, has starred in ads for the company’s Dior Sauvage cologne since 2015.
The 2023 pact comes after Depp’s public legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard. The Nightmare on Elm Street star sued Heard, 36, in 2019 after she published an op-ed in the Washington Post naming herself as a victim of domestic violence. Though she did not mention her ex-husband’s name, Depp — who was married to the Aquaman star from 2015 to 2017 — filed a lawsuit against the actress for defamation.
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After a number of court appearances, during which both Heard and Depp testified and claimed the other was the abuser, a jury ordered the Justice League actress to pay her ex $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in putative damages in June 2022. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.
Though both Depp and Heard initially tried to appeal the verdict, the exes settled in December 2022.
“I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed,” Heard wrote via social media after the settlement. “The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are [re-victimized] when they