By Tobias Carroll The last couple of years have seen Johnny Depp in the news more for various controversies — including multiple libel trials and a troubling Dior campaign — than anything else. His latest project, an album recorded with Jeff Beck titled 18, was recently released to, shall we say, less-than-enthusiastic reviews. (Quoth Michael Hann at The Guardian, “…it would be a peculiar and hugely uneven record even if Depp had never been near a courtroom in his life.”) But even this collaboration hasn’t been without controversy. As Rolling Stone reports, questions have arisen as to whether …