dec 13, 2020 - MEDIUM Amber Heard is the Donald Trump of the #Me Too Movement

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Amber Heard is the Donald Trump of the #MeToo Movement

The ease with which Heard positioned herself as the false victim and with which we attacked Depp shows much work is yet needed to believe, accept, and support male survivors of domestic violence

Two weeks ago, it became apparent that Amber Heard -who famously proclaimed in 2017 that she would be donating all of her $7 million dollar divorce settlement from Johnny Depp to two charities, the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a donation further stipulated in the Depp/Heard divorce settlement and therefore legally required of Heard- never actually made the multi-million dollar donations she so eagerly and publicly promoted, to her benefit of course.
The CHLA’s official donor’s honor roll lists Heard in 2018, reflecting her promise of a few months earlier as the Depp/Heard divorce was being finalized, but removes Heard completely from their list in 2019, their latest one available, where Heard would still appear if she had actually made the multi-million dollar donation in question, or even still had any real plans of ever eventually making it. (The ACLU, which initially announced Heard’s donation on their website, writing of it as though it was a given, doesn’t provide such a list to reference to confirm the donation.) CHLA lists “donors who have made lifetime gifts of $1 million dollars or more, included the hospital in their estate plans or made planned gift commitments” permanently, so that Heard’s hypothetical gift or planned gift or actual gift would still earn her a place on the honor roll these subsequent years later.

But Heard’s name is missing, something that cannot be overlooked and that CHLA has ever issued a correction for. More details are sure to emerge during Depp’s upcoming defamation trial against Heard, especially if Heard ever eventually complies with the court-issued subpoena seeking said information, but the fact stands on its own now and already provides one of the most resounding and significant indications of Heard’s duplicitous nature and dishonesty.

Who cheats charities out of donation money anyways, especially while knowingly basking in the glow of the positive perception garnered from said fake donation(s)? (If you’re thinking someone heinous like Donald Trump and the Trump family and their fake charitable foundation, you are thinking correctly and I’m right here with you.)

Unsurprisingly, Heard and her lawyers recently fought hard in court to maintain Heard’s missing donations and all associated financial records hidden; they were denied, however, and sanctioned for their ludicrous attempt to uphold Heard’s double role as both self-promoting hypewoman and privacy role model. Heard is expected to produce her donation receipts, as per the court order, something a person who actually made such a generous and selfless contribution should have no problem doing and should never have fought so hard to keep hidden in the first place. As of right now, however, those receipts are still missing, and Heard has produced nothing.

It’s the type of amazing fiasco that any investigative journalist or curious writer would be thrilled to explore and uncover, except that noticeably absent to this day are any major media reports questioning where Heard’s receipts are, and what other inconsistencies one can find in her fantastical story of abuse at the hands of one of the world’s most famous public figures.

Save for a few pieces, including this one, and the voices of Depp fans everywhere who have taken to social media to ask the questions writers and journalist seem unwilling to pose, no major publication or platform reported on what is a significant piece of telling evidence in a case that has spanned various years, jurisdictions, cultural movements and hashtags. (Truthfully, had you heard of this at all prior to me pointing it out here?)

Omissions are premeditated, and it is hard to reconcile this particular one with the fact that, by contrast, back in 2016–18, when her donation was still a promise and some -mistakenly- believed a fact, writers for all major publications were quick to offer laudatory articles that closely followed Heard’s public relations messaging, helping cement Heard, The Advocate, in the public consciousness. The then newly-minted media darling Heard used her newfound acclaim -and victimhood- to front as one of the most public faces of the #MeToo movement, and subsequently, to serve as ambassador and speaker for various entities, organizations, and companies, many of whom rewarded Heard handsomely financially for her time, image, and story.

To date, Heard is still represented by the prestigious Harry Walker Agency, which represents public speakers the likes of the Sussex's, Meghan and Harry, demanding thousands of dollars for her speaking engagements because few things, after all, are more compelling than the woman fighting bravely and publicly against the Harvey Weinstein of piratedom, an 80’s and 90’s heartthrob with one of the most storied, enduring, and profitable careers in the movie industry.

With the public primed to believe survivors, especially female ones, after the famous Miramax boss’ demise, Johnny Depp, the man who is Captain Jack Sparrow, soon found himself moored again, his Black Pearl snatched away in the form of cancelled contracts and rescinded offers by a culture eager to atone, fittingly so, for its past blindness to survivors’ stories.

It was a perfect moment for Amber Heard and the #MeToo movement she knowingly manipulated and exploited, but one that should not and cannot last in the face of overwhelming evidence against her.

The list is long, but the evidence is there and publicly available thanks to the Virginia court system (feel free to Google “CL-2019–2911 Fairfax County Depp v Heard” for more). This evidence includes things like graphic images of Depp’s severed fingertip, well-documented in official Australian hospital records, where it was urgently reattached with great pains. The then-couple were in Australia while Depp filmed an installment of the “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Multiple witnesses, including Depp’s and Heard’s shared on-call physician and nurse, attested to Heard being responsible for the injury, which resulted when she launched a magnum bottle of vodka in Depp’s direction (he had asked her to sign a postnuptial agreement just prior; she apparently did not like this request).

There are numerous character statements, overwhelmingly against Heard, from multiple people both within and well outside the Depp/Heard bubble, all of whom largely attest to Depp’s inherent kindness and calmness, which stands in stark contrast to Heard’s aggressive hostility and volatility. Indeed, the only people apparently willing to speak exultingly of Heard in court were her sister Whitney and their close circle of friends, all of whom benefitted at one point or other from Heard’s marriage to Depp and whom, one can reason, are probably not so thrilled that these benefits ended alongside Heard’s marriage. Amongst the perks Heard’s associates enjoyed as part of Heard’s marriage to Depp -and possibly the most desirable- was being invited to live rent-free in one of several adjoining penthouses Depp owned in the luxury Downtown Los Angeles Art-Deco building, the Eastern Columbia. Depp and Heard lived in one of these penthouses.

There are witness declarations, too, from building attendants at the Eastern Columbia to Heard’s own stylist, asserting under oath that they never saw Heard with any bruises or cuts on the days she says she was so physically battered she feared Depp would accidentally murder her. Video evidence corroborates their assertions that Heard appeared in good health, if often jovial, in what were otherwise meant to be devastating moments. One can count the LAPD’s own domestic abuse unit amongst these witnesses, after they too were called in to investigate a potential incident in the Depp-owned penthouse the couple shared. The officers concluded that no crime had occurred, as they found noting that would indicate that Depp had acted as Heard claims.

But perhaps most telling of all are the audio recordings -recorded mostly by Heard herself, ironically, at various points throughout their marriage- in which Heard’s volatility, rage, and abusive nature are fully on display. These recordings are triggering and disturbing, but crucial, as they make it irrefutably clear whom the abuser is. Spoiler alert: it’s Amber Heard.

“I fucking was hitting you!” Heard shouts at Depp in one audio recording, after first mocking him for calling his bodyguard to help him leave the situation and then gaslighting him for saying that Heard’s closed-fist blows were punches, which she refuses to acknowledge. Heard, more concerned with semantics than with apologizing for her violent actions, continuously belittles Depp as she admits to striking Johnny, but remains staunchly unwilling to accept that her violence hurt him, physically and emotionally.

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