14 h, jan 7, 2021 y - DEADLINE
JD “Desperate Attempt”
To Malign AH; Admits
$7M Charitable
Donations “Delayed”
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The multi-national legal battles between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have just become a lot less charitable.
As the once married Rum Diary co-stars’ inch towards a May 3 trial start in Depp’s $50 million defamation suit against Heard, claims have now reemerged over whether the Aquaman star actually donated her $7 million 2016 divorce settlement to charity as promised.
A clearly planted story in the UK’s Daily Mail seems aimed to help get the Pirates of the Caribbean actor the new trial he is seeking against fellow tabloid The Sun over being labelled a “wife beater” in print.
“Mr. Depp’s effort to plant stories in the media criticizing Amber for not yet fulfilling all the donations she pledged to charity is yet another desperate attempt to divert attention from the UK Court’s findings relating to allegations of Mr. Depp committing domestic abuse and violence,” Heard’s US attorney Elaine Bredehoft told Deadline in a statement Thursday after the Mail story appeared online.
Diverting perhaps, but not untrue, it seems.
While Depp initially handed over $100,000 of a promised $3.5 million to L.A.’s Children Hospital Foundation in Heard’s name in 2016, a 2019 letter from the organization asks the actress “if you have knowledge if CHLA should expect further installment(s) on your behalf or if the pledge will not be fulfilled.”
Heard stated in the UK High Court last year, and on various other occasions over the past few years, that she donated the full $7 million to CHLA and the ACLU after some initial hiccups in the agreement with her ex-husband. In fact, in his biting November 2020 decision against Depp in the libel case against the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun, Judge Andrew Nichol made a distinct point of praising Heard as Team Depp sought to sully the motivations of the anti-domestic violence advocate. “Her donation of the $7 million to charity is hardly the act one would expect of a gold-digger,” said the High Court judge, also asserting The Sun’s claims against Depp was “substantially true.”
However, today Heard’s lawyer in the Virginia based defamation matter and her client’s $100 million counterclaim, did noticeably walk back the full extent of the actress’ benefactions
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