Amber Heard's ongoing legal battle with Johnny Depp has seen yet another controversy emerge. This time, it revolves around a commitment the Aquaman actress made after her divorce from Depp.
Five years ago, Heard pledged to donate the $7 million she received in the divorce settlement to various charities, including the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). However, in the recent trial, it was revealed that the promised funds have not been fully delivered to the intended recipients.
According to the allegations, the ACLU confirmed that they had not received the full $3.5 million pledged by Heard. Terence Dougherty, the general counsel of the organization, testified that Amber Heard had donated $1.3 million.
Furthermore, there are suspicions that half of this amount may have come from Elon Musk, whom Heard was involved with shortly after her divorce from Depp. In December 2018, Heard contributed a total of $350,000, including a $100,000 payment from Johnny Depp and an additional $350,000 from an investment fund. The remaining $500,000 was purportedly donated by an account known as Vanguard, allegedly linked to Musk.
Facing persistent questions from the prosecution, Amber Heard eventually admitted that she had not fulfilled her $7 million donation commitment due to Johnny Depp's legal actions against her. However, she expressed her desire to honor her promise in the future, saying, "Johnny sued me for $50 million in March 2019. I have every intention of keeping all my promises.
I would love for him to stop suing me so I can do it." Notably, in previous instances, Heard had declared, including under oath during Johnny Depp's defamation trial against The Sun in the UK in 2020, that she had already handed over the promised funds to the designated charities.
She had also reiterated this claim in various interviews, maintaining that she did not want anything for herself. When questioned during the trial about why she accepted money from Johnny Depp post-divorce, she consistently stated that the funds were earmarked for charity and not of personal significance to her.
