I just wanna tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room," said Love in the videos, referencing the famed club in West Hollywood, California, that Depp once co-owned and where River Phoenix collapsed and died of a drug overdose in October 1993.
Ownership. As part of the settlement of a lawsuit involving the disappearance of co-owner Anthony Fox in December 2001, Depp relinquished his ownership of the Viper Room in 2004. The club changed hands multiple times between 2004 and 2016; the club is currently owned by Viper Room Holdings, Ltd. CEO James Cooper.
It is a place where celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Marie Presley, Jared Leto, Christina Applegate, Angelina Jolie, Rosario Dawson, Tobey Maguire, and Leonardo DiCaprio, attended regularly. However, The Viper had multiple scandals, legal fights, and death.
Anyone who's anyone in Los Angeles has heard of The Viper Room on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood The now-haunted hotspot rose to its infamy after River Phoenix passed away in the bar on Halloween night in 1993 from an overdose. After the tragedy, his brother's 911 call was broadcast all over the world.
In 2018, the Viper Room and several adjacent buildings along the Sunset Strip were reportedly sold for $80 million to a buyer known simply as 8850 Sunset.
Though Phoenix was officially pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the actor spent the night of his death at The Viper Room — an L.A. nightclub on the Sunset Strip that was, at the time, co-owned by Johnny Depp.
What celebrities were in the Viper Room in the 90s?
Duff Mckagan, Steve Jones and Iggy Pop performing with Neurotic Outsiders on September 26, 1995. Jennifer Aniston and a friend arrive at the grand re-opening of the Viper Room on January 9, 1999. Keanu Reeves arrives at the Viper Room where he is to perform with his band "Dogstar" on May 21, 1997..
Johnny Depp has owned various luxurious properties over his career, including an entire town in France, five Los Angeles penthouses and a Kentucky horse farm that he shared with his ex-wife Amber Heard, her sister Whitney, and their friends.
Alas, the down and dirty days of the Viper Room will soon come to an end as a developer purchased the property from Larrabee to San Vicente with plans to build a shiny new 15-story building with restaurants, a hotel and a brand-new squeaky clean incarnation of the Viper Room.
According to TMG's filings, besides incidental expenses like paying $3 million to launch Hunter S. Thompson's ashes from a cannon, Depp has also spent $75 million on 14 different properties. By Vulture's count, Depp definitely sold one property — a Kentucky horse farm he bought for his mother — nearly two decades ago.
Johnny Depp's ex-best friend, Bruce Witkin, testified Thursday in the actor's defamation trial. Witkin said Depp had a "jealous streak" in his relationships, including with Amber Heard. Witkin testified he once saw bruises on Heard's arm that made it look like she had been grabbed.
Bruce Witkin, a musician who was friends with Depp for nearly 40 years, said the actor's jealousy in romantic relationships was first on display decades ago. "He can definitely have a jealous streak in him,” Witkin said during a video deposition recorded in February and played in court Thursday.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star is reportedly dating lawyer Joelle Rich from his UK legal team that represented him in his libel lawsuits against British tabloid The Sun in 2020, per People. (His fans were shipping him with the wrong lawyer, apparently.)
The Viper Room became a magnet for both well-established artists and up-and-comers, including Johnny Cash, The Strokes and The Pussycat Dolls—and it continues to host live rock bands today.
The Viper Room Will Be Torn Down And Remodeled As Part Of A 12-Story High Rise. The music venue The Viper Room is seen in April of 2020, when it was closed due to coronavirus measures.
The Viper Room on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, where Phoenix died. In late October 1993, Phoenix had returned to Los Angeles after flying back from spending one week in New Mexico. Before that, he had spent six to seven weeks in Utah to complete the three weeks of interior shots left on his last project, Dark Blood.
Reeves has mentioned his friendship with Phoenix many times over the years. When speaking to Esquire in 2021, he discussed his late friend, stating: “He's a—”, he started before cutting himself off. “It's weird speaking about him in the past,” Reeves said. “I hate speaking about him in the past.
Earlier this month, Alison Martino, editor of Vintage LA and a contributor to Los Angeles Magazine, wrote a brief history of three clubs that occupied the venue in the rock era, before the Viper Room opened in 1993 — the Melody Room, which closed after 1969; Filthy McNasty's, which was open by July 1973 and closed on ...
River's girlfriend at the time, Samantha Mathis, and younger brother Joaquin Phoenix were among those present at the time of his death; Leonardo DiCaprio has also said he briefly encountered River at a separate event the night he died.
The Viper Room is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, United States located on the Sunset Strip. It opened in 1993, and was owned in part by actor Johnny Depp.
