I bet you didn’t know that Johnny Depp was an art buff. Not a regular art buff, mind you. He is a little weird. Here’s why: Johnny D has recently bought a portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge. Nothing surprising about that, eh? What’s a little shocking is that it’s a portrait where the Duchess is in the family way and only wearing a crown. And the actor forked out a pretty hefty sum for the artwork. Weird!

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, December 21st, 2014

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