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Photo: Andy Templeton[/caption]
Johnny Depp has been having trouble selling his 15-hectare luxury property between Saint-Tropez and Cannes. Originally offered at €50 million, the estate is now being offered for €23 million.
The Plan-de-la-Tour domain boasts a veritable village, complete with a restaurant-bar, a fitness centre, several guest houses for invited friends, housing for employees, a children’s play room and, perhaps most surprising of all, a chapel.
Depp has been in the news most recently because of his court battle with his former business managers. While Depp, who has a reputation for lavish, if not reckless, spending, has accused his former money managers of incompetence and mismanagement, while the opposing side claims that their former client overspent to such an extent that he ran into serious financial problems.
He was also accused by his former wife, Amber, of violent behaviour. The couple split in 2015.
Depp’s problems go further back. In 2003, in the early days of Depp’s Hollywood career, his former business partner in a Hollywood nightclub notorious for its drugs culture, Tony Fox, vanished just days before a court case was due to be heard in which Fox, the 49-percent shareholder, alleged gross mismanagement, a legal fight he was expected to win.
Although there is no evidence that Depp was involved, the disappearance has never been solved, despite the opening of a murder enquiry. Depp later signed over his share in the Sunset Strip nightclub to Fox’s daughter and by then he was living in France with his girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis.
Jean Castellini awards the Prince's Government Prize to Robert Boisbouvier. Photo: Manuel Vitali /DC[/caption]
At the closing of the 
Winners of the 2017 Business Creation Competition organised by the Junior Economic Chamber of Monaco. Photo: JCEM[/caption]
The second prize, awarded by JCEM, and amounting to €21,000, was this year awarded to another young Monegasque, Sacha Savoca, for the company he also created in 2017. "Link Your Leisure" is a digital application aimed at facilitating the organisation of and access to leisure in a given region, highlighting the tourism and leisure stakeholders concerned. This young company was also chosen by the 
Jury and winners of the 22nd Business Creation Competition organised by the Junior Chamber Economic of Monaco. Photo: Manuel Vitali /DC[/caption]
Minister Castellini praised all the candidates and praised the work done by the JCEM, whose teams work with professionalism and enthusiasm to organise many activities throughout the year in favour of entrepreneurship and youth in the Principality. He also congratulated Kevin Hin, the first Monegasque to be appointed Executive Vice-President of the Junior Chamber International.
“There is no shame in failure,” the Minister concluded in his speech. “It will lead you to your next success.”
