Johnny Depp sells his artwork for £3M (P202M)
Johnny Depp on Thursday sold a collection of prints he created of Hollywood and rock icons for around £3 million (P202 million) via a UK gallery chain.
The 59-year-old "Pirates of the Caribbean" star has spent millions on a bitter legal battle with his ex-wife, the 36-year-old actress Amber Heard.
Depp wrote on Instagram on Thursday morning that the prints were going on sale online at Castle Fine Art, which runs a network of UK galleries.
It said that the collection of prints called "Friends & Heroes" was "a testament to those he has known well and others who have inspired him as a person".
The works depict Bob Dylan, the late actress Elizabeth Taylor, actor Al Pacino, and Rolling Stone's Keith Richards.
The gallery chain later posted a tweet saying that "Johnny Depp broke the internet" and its website had crashed due to demand and all the prints were marked as "out of stock" by Thursday evening. There were 780 pieces of art. Buyers paid £14,950 (P1 million) for a set of all four framed prints or £3,950 (P267,000) for a single print.
Depp in June won an award of $10 million in a defamation case against Heard in the United States, while she won $2 million in damages after counter-suing.
Heard is appealing against the verdict of the jury trial, which was live-streamed to millions and featured lurid and intimate details about the former couple's private lives. Depp previously lost a libel case against the British tabloid The Sun in London in 2020 for calling him a "wife-beater". (AFP)