3h 24min, may 19, 2021 y - DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Depp is suing the ACLU to force them to reveal whether Amber Heard ever donated promised $7M

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Johnny Depp is suing the America Civil Liberties Union to see whether ex-wife Amber Heard ever fulfilled her promise to donate her $7m divorce settlement to charity, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Heard, 35, declared that she didn't want Depp's money after their explosive 2016 breakup and vowed instead to split the mammoth payment between two good causes.

But the actor's lawyers believe the altruistic gesture was a sham and have spent more than a year chasing the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the American Civil Liberties Union to find out how much they actually received from the actress.

Back in January DailyMail.com revealed a series of documents turned over by hospital bosses which suggested they received only $100,000 – way short of the promised $3.5m 'gift'.

The ACLU refused to cooperate but Depp has now ramped up the pressure by filing a motion to compel in New York Supreme Court to force them to comply with a string of subpoenas and end their 'outrageous stonewalling'.

Depp's lawyers want the docs to prove Heard was lying when she boasted about the giveaway, not only in media interviews but in evidence she gave to a London court.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star lost a bruising defamation case last year against the UK's Sun newspaper when a British High Court judge agreed the publication's depiction of him as a 'wife beater' was 'substantially true' based on blood-curdling accounts of their numerous bust-ups.

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