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Johnny Depp, pictured July 17, 2013 in Tokyo, has a reported net worth of $200 million. Getty Images

“Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp’s comment about President Donald Trump could cost him. The actor-turned-musician talked about assassinating the president at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom Thursday.

Depp, 52, was aware his comments would be controversial. “This is going to be in the press, and it will be horrible...” he said, talking to the audience. “When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?” Depp added: “I want to clarify. I'm not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it's been a while, and maybe it's time.”

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He was likely referencing actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 while he was at the theater.

As of now, Depp’s statements haven’t effected any of his endorsements, but they have the potential to. With an estimated net worth of $200 million, Depp reportedly makes $20 million for each film and is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Estimates from Celebrity Net Worth claimed he could rake in as much as $100 million annually.

Some of his fortune comes from endorsements. He became the face of the Dior Sauvage fragrance campaign in 2015. He also has endorsements with Infinitum Nihil and Man Ray. He was reportedly paid $3 to $5 million to appear in the Dior ads, Women’s Wear Daily wrote at the time.

“Johnny Depp is a mainstream eccentric. It’s quite a contradiction, and it is the key conundrum that perfume houses are permanently trying to solve: How to please everyone — to maximize sales — and at the same time be unique, novel, original — to cut through the market noise,” Louise Rosen, founder and chief executive officer of The Message Inc., a Paris-based consultancy for luxury brands, told WWD in 2015. “A somewhat dark, serious, respected actor, [he is] a man who has values, a man of integrity.”

Of course, the White House had da much different reaction when Depp talked about assassinated the president, saying the actor’s statement was “sad” Friday.

They added: “President Trump has condemned violence in all forms and it’s sad that others like Johnny Depp have not followed his lead. I hope that some of Mr. Depp's colleagues will speak out against this type of rhetoric as strongly as they would if his comments were directed to a democrat elected official.”

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The Secret Service was briefed about the actor’s statement. “For security reasons, we cannot discuss specifically nor in general terms the means and methods of how we perform our protective responsibilities,” Secret Service staff assistant Shawn Holtzclaw told CNN Friday.

Depp divorced from wife Amber Heard in August 2016. “Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love,” they said in a joint statement at the time. “Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.”

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