JOHNNY DEPP'S ACCIDENTAL FIXER: HOW A HOLLYWOOD SLEUTH SAVED A PIRATE'S HONOR.

Paul Barresi's life reads like a classic Hollywood thriller-dark, perilous, and thoroughly sordid. Raised in Lynn, Massachusetts, within an Italian American community outside of Boston, Barresi endured a physically abusive father and a mother who sought solace from other men. His escape was the cinema, where Hollywood's bright lights ignited his ambition to become an actor. During his high school years, Barresi transformed his body into a well-muscled specimen. After an honorable discharge ...