How Amber Heard Lied About Donating Johnny Depp’s Divorce Settlement

Amber Heard reportedly failed to donate the $7 million divorce settlement she received from Johnny Depp to ACLU and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) despite claiming in a UK High Court that she did, as reported by People.

After Depp and Heard settled their divorce in 2015, Heard publicly vowed that she would split and donate the settlement money between the two charities.

However, the general counsel at the ACLU, Terence Dougherty, said in a video deposition that Heard never donated her pledged $3.5 million to the organisation.

Dougherty claimed that only $1.3 million of the promised $3.5 million was received by the organisation, including a donation from Depp himself in Heard’s name.

According to Dougherty, Heard paid $350,00 directly, and the organisation later received a $100,000 cheque from Depp.

They also received $500,000 from a donor-advised Vanguard fund and $350,000 from a donor-advised fund at Fidelity.

Dougherty also claims that they believed the $500,000 donation came from Elon Musk.

Depp’s lawyers, during the deposition, asked Dougherty: “She has not donated $3.5 million as of today to the ACLU, true?", to which they replied: “True.”

It was also revealed that the Tesla CEO handled the donations on behalf of Heard, and also explained in a 2016 email to ACLU that the payments would be made over a 10-year period.

Dougherty was also asked to comment on why Musk was “representing this on behalf of Ms. Heard,” to which he said, “Because the Tesla CEO had a prior relationship with the organisation.”

When the organisation reached out to Heard in 2019 to ask for a payment, “We learned that she was having financial difficulties," Dougherty said.

Dougherty’s testimony proved that Heard had lied in a UK court in 2020 when she said that she had donated the settlement amount to the organisations. Depp lost that trial.