Depp, 43, takes the title role as the legendary London barber who murders his customers by slitting their throats.

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And before that crime went to trial, he was picked up for allegedly slitting the throat of one-time college sweetheart, Hyesung Lynda Hong, a radiant and intelligent Korean-American law student.

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As part of that lawsuit, Picard also sued Claudine de la Villehuchet, the widow of Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a French hedge fund manager who killed himself soon after the Ponzi scheme came to light by swallowing sleeping pills and slitting his wrists in his Manhattan office.

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