12 h 23 déc. 2021 ans - RADAR EXCLUSIVE Paul Barresi The Viper Room Curse Johnny's Ex-Business Partner Missing — What Does Depp Know?

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The Viper Room Curse: Johnny's Ex-Business Partner Missing — What Does Depp Know?

by Nick Harding

Fresh leads in one of Hollywood’s most baffling cold cases absolve movie star Johnny Depp from the decades-old conspiracy that he plotted to murder a rival. The 20-year-old mystery behind the disappearance of Depp’s former business partner, Anthony Fox, is close to being solved thanks to a relentless investigation, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Paul Barresi, the renowned Hollywood fixer, has spearheaded a review of the case, uncovering never-seen-before documents and gaining fresh testimony that sheds new light on Fox’s frame of mind before he vanished. It now seems almost certain that he either took his own life or, tantalizingly, disappeared off-grid and is living under an assumed name in another part of the world. At the time of his disappearance Fox was facing financial ruin and defeat in a legal case he had filed against Depp and four others, claiming the actor had stiffed him on money owed from the infamous nightclub they co-owned, the Viper Room.

Statements obtained and handed on to Ventura Police Department, which is handling the endangered missing persons case, suggest the secret of Anthony’s disappearance may have been known to his mother who took it to her grave when she died in March 2004. His investigation has also uncovered potential inconsistencies in the will that Fox’s wealthy British mother, Maud, wrote before her death.

Barresi told RadarOnline.com that while his investigation has led to many fresh questions, it absolves Depp of any foul play.

"For decades, innuendo and half-truths persist that Johnny Depp had a hand in Anthony Fox's disappearance but today won't stand up to scrutiny under the details I've uncovered. They would be like the fallacious bill of goods sold to the British high court which branded him a wife-beater," he said.

Fox was last seen in Ventura County, California on December 19, 2001. He disappeared along with his pick-up truck and a .38 caliber revolver. On January 6, 2002, his truck was found abandoned on Chestnut Street in Santa Clara, California. He left behind several thousand dollars in a bank account that remained untouched. He also left a teenage daughter, Constance.

At the time of his disappearance, Fox was scheduled to testify in court after bringing a lawsuit against five people, including Depp who he co-owned the Viper Rooms with. Fox was the majority shareholder in the club which he had co-founded with the actor Johnny Depp in 1993. The venue gained notoriety in its opening year when actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on the pavement outside the club on Halloween night. Fox had accused Depp of defrauding him of millions of dollars in profits and was due to testify against his business partners. In 2004, Depp turned over his share in the nightclub to Constance, who resold it.

Rumors abounded that Depp had a hand in the disappearance and some even speculated that Fox had been murdered and buried in the basement of the club.

However, recent inquiries, which were carried out at the request of the Ventura Police Department, have uncovered fresh information:

* On or around the day he disappeared, Anthony sent a letter to his mother, the contents of which she refused to divulge to his brother, Charles. It is suspected the letter contained vital information.

* A telephone call answering machine from Fox’s home, which could have held important clues, was never impounded as evidence and has never been located.

* Fox’s legal case appears unlikely to have succeeded and several sources indicate he was in financial difficulties at the time of his disappearance.

* Fox’s wealthy British mother had allegedly helped him perpetrate a fraud in a former bankruptcy case he was involved in.

* Fox’s former wife reports seeing him in Santa Barbara six months after he vanished.

* Fox had disappeared several years previously for a time, and family members confirm he was an eccentric who had an interest in living ‘off-grid’.

* Maud’s will, written after he disappeared, named him as a beneficiary and bequeathed his share of the £1m estate to his daughter should he not surface by a specific date. It is questionable whether those wishes were ever carried out.

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