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Johnny Depp’s family history may be able to be traced to Ukraine. That is according to local journalists, who came across an archive document stating that a certain Nikolay Depp lived in Odessa back in the 19th Century. Journalists from the online Ukrainian source Blik have therefore assumed that Nikolay Depp could be Johnny’s great-grandfather or uncle, citing as indirect proof the fact that both of them had German roots. Read the story here.