Johnny Depp Murdered his Viper Room Business Partner Anthony Fox (
Probably)
Anthony Fox vanished without a trace, coincidentally just before he was to testify against Depp in a bitter multimillion-dollar lawsuit. Now, 14 years after Anthony's mysterious disappearance, Sgt. Matt Cain of the Ventura Police Department's Major Crimes Division stressed: "This is an active endangered missing person's case."
Fox owned a nightclub called The Central on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, and partnered with Depp, then 30. Together they renamed the club The Viper Room. "Johnny planned to turn it into the hippest, trendiest club on the Strip," said another source. "But from the beginning,
The Viper Room was a place where drug dealers flourished."
In 1999, Fox slapped Depp with a lawsuit alleging he had conspired to divert millions in profits from The Viper Room. In a preliminary ruling early in 2003, a judge indicated Fox would prevail in the case, writing: "Depp…breached his fiduciary duties. The facts establish persistent and pervasive fraud and mismanagement and abuse of authority."
But Fox went missing shortly before he was scheduled to testify against Depp and four others. Also missing were his pickup truck and .38-caliber revolver. Fox was 53 when he went missing on Dec. 19, 2001, just days after his daughter, Amanda, turned 17.
Nineteen days later, on Jan. 6, 2002, his vehicle was found abandoned in Santa Clara, Calif. — 330 miles from where he was last seen near his home in Ventura, Calif. His body has never been found.
In
2004 Depp gave ownership to Fox's daughter, Amanda. His big movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was about to come out. He also moved to France.
Missing Person: Anthony Fox
It says his truck was found on Chestnut / Santa Clara.
Looking up the location you will see the former
Agnew Insane Asylum building is nearby.
Established in 1885, Agnews was the first California state hospital to house such a large number of patients, and also known for using progressive methods (of the time). Agnew has a
mass grave with 606 former patients buried in it. None of the bodies were in coffins, since the designated plot of land was too small to fit 606 coffins. Rather the bodies had been placed in dug up ditches. Decades later new homes were built around the mass gave and the grave markers on it were removed by the request of residents who viewed a piece of local history as “unsightly”.