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Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp to the ACLU. ACLU COO and General Counsel Terence Dougherty ...

In December 2018, the same day Heard's op-ed in the Washington Post was published, Heard announced she had taken on a role as an ACLU ambassador on women's rights. When Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reached a settlement in their divorce in 2016, Heard announced that she would be donating the entirety of her $7 million payout to charity. Insider reached out to Musk for comment on the donation in Heard's name on Thursday but did not immediately receive a response. Depp has accused Heard of ruining his reputation and career by insinuating that she had been the victim of domestic violence in a 2018 Washington Post 0p-ed. "We reached out to Heard starting in 2019 for the next installment of her giving and we learned that she was having financial difficulties," Dougherty said. - Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp to the ACLU.

Amber Heard's op-ed about domestic violence was timed to capitalize on the release of 'Aquaman,' an ACLU executive testified.

At the time of their divorce, Depp agreed to pay Heard $7 million, which she promised to donate to the ACLU and to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, with $3.5 million going to each charity. Dougherty’s testimony included internal ACLU emails about the drafting of the op-ed. Depp alleges that Heard fabricated her abuse allegations and used them to advance her own career at his expense. Dougherty explained that the publicity campaign for the film would help get more attention for the op-ed. “From the ACLU’s perspective, Amber is about to receive an incredible amount of press and be in the public eye,” Dougherty said. At the trial on Thursday, Depp’s attorneys played a video deposition of Terence Dougherty, the ACLU’s general counsel.

The general counsel of the ACLU testified that the foundation believed that billionaire Elon Musk was behind a $500000 payment to help the actress fulfill a ...

In his deposition, Dougherty talked of the work that the ACLU did to craft the op-ed. He said that the ACLU reached out to her at one point “and we learned that she was having financial difficulties.” But Musk had indicated in a 2016 email to the organization that Heard’s pledge would be fulfilled in installments over 10 years. The latter payment was via Heard. Another $100,000 came from Depp and was credited to Heard.

Heard said that she would be donating the $7 million payout that she received from a 2016 settlement in her divorce from actor Johny Depp, to ACLU and the ...

The actor claimed that these allegations ruined his reputation and career. Though the op-ed didn't mention Depp's name, the actor's lawyer said that it was clear that Heard was referring to him. Heard said that she would be donating the $7 million payout that she received from a 2016 settlement in her divorce from Depp, to ACLU and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, according to Insider.

Amber Heard has so far only paid $1.3million of the $3.5million she promised the ACLU nearly six years ago, with ex Elon Musk's money making up a large ...

The court also heard about the panic within the ACLU how in 2019 Reuters inquired about how much Heard had paid of her $3.5m pledge. Dougherty said that media outlets were more likely to take on an op-ed if it had 'strong views' and the more the person was in the public eye at the time, the 'more likely it will be accepted by a more prominent media outlet'. In follow up emails, Witz said that Heard wanted to get a mention of her getting a restraining order back into the article. The court heard that Robin Shulman, a communications strategist with the ACLU wrote the first draft of the op-ed in November 2018, a month before the article was published. Heard had promised to donate her $7M divorce settlement to charity, splitting the funds between the ACLU and the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles Shulman and Heard met in person and that op-ed was changed, the court heard. The court heard that Heard's last donation of $350,000 in December 2018 and that she had not paid any money since. - Amber Heard has paid only $1.3M of the $3.5M she promised to donate to the ACLU after her divorce settlement with Johnny Depp was finalized in 2016 Heard promised to give half the money to the ACLU to support its work in 'fighting violence against women', and the other $3.5million to the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. The court heard the Aquaman actress has so far only paid $1.3million of the $3.5million she promised the ACLU nearly six years ago, with Musk's money making up a large chunk of it Jurors in Heard and Depp's $100million defamation trial on Thursday heard the actress has so far only paid $1.3million of the $3.5million she promised the ACLU nearly six years ago, with Musk's money making up a large chunk of it. - The Aquaman star promised to donate her $7M divorce settlement to charity, splitting the funds between the ACLU and the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles

Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million to the ACLU, half of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp. She really paid $1.3 million, ...

Heard insists that the pledge was meant to be a 10-year commitment. Dougherty agreed that sizing down references from her marriage and divorce to Depp made it more impactful. For Heard, stardom did stave off financial difficulties, and Dougherty said he learned about them in 2019. During his testimony, Dougherty reviewed communications showing the chatter about the drafting, placement, and publication editorial. On Dec. 18, 2018, Heard published a Washington Post op-ed titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. Dougherty testified that only $350,000 of that amount was donated under Heard’s name.

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“You weren’t in love with him, and you told me a thousand times you were just filling space,” Carino wrote to Heard when she expressed sadness over their split, according to Vulture. The restraining order was dropped and when their divorce was finalized the couple released a statement saying “neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.” Depp has repeatedly denied the claims of abuse, and claimed the suggestion of him having abused Heard ruined his career. When the couple split, Heard filed a temporary restraining order against the Edward Scissorhands actor, and said he had abused her throughout their relationship.

In addition to Heard's planned donation to the ACLU, she said she would donate the other half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the Children's Hospital ...

Dougherty said he had reviewed earlier drafts of Heard’s op-ed and, based upon that, “knew that they were referring to Johnny Depp [and] her marriage.” In the final edit, however, Heard’s legal team “neutered” references to her marriage and domestic violence. (Heard dated Musk after her split with Depp, though Musk was “just filling space,” according to testimony on April 27.) In addition to Heard’s planned donation to the ACLU, she said she would donate the other half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was not immediately clear how much she has paid to the hospital to date. However, there have not been any concrete signs that Heard won’t eventually follow through, according to Dougherty. “I’m not aware of any indication that Ms. Heard has decided to no longer pay additional amounts,” Dougherty said in the deposition played Thursday. Doughtery also said that $500,000 of the $1.3 million donated thus far was from a charitable account that appeared to be “associated with Elon Musk” and he thought the tech billionaire had set up this account. There was some doubt around Heard paying the rest as she did not sign a “pledge form” that would make the donations legally binding, Dougherty testified. When the ACLU reached out to Heard in 2019 about future installments, Dougherty said, “We learned that she was having financial difficulties.” “She can be confident that this gift will help other women live safely and freely.” But according to a deposition played Thursday in Depp’s defamation trial against Heard, it appears that, to this day, only $1.3 million has been donated to the civil-rights nonprofit.

Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have chipped in at least $500000 to ex-girlfriend Amber Heard's donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, ...

“I’m assuming the former, but I don’t know.” “Either that means a separate donor-advised fund he has at Fidelity or from — Fidelity, you know, direct investment accounts he has at Fidelity,” he said. That money included a $500,000 donation from a fund at Vanguard and $350,000 from a Fidelity fund, Dougherty testified.

American Civil Liberties Union's general counsel testifies that at least $500000 came from fund connected to Elon Musk.

Heard, he testified, berated Depp as Connolly led him away from the house to his own apartment where he administered first aid, saying, “Fuck off! “I’ve seen him smoke marijuana,” Connolly said. I’ve never seen him do it.” “He was not happy. The payments, which Heard requested to come tax free, would have required Depp to make $30m, White said. “You weren’t in love with him.” I can see bone.” “It’s flapping around. Depp, he surmised, was not enjoying himself. The two celebrities appeared on Heard’s publicly available witness list at the start of the trial, but Musk’s attorney Alex Spiro has said his client will not testify. It would get more regular. The Fairfax county court in Virginia was told that Heard had “spent time” with Musk while she sought to resurrect her relationship with Depp in 2016.

After promising to donate half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union in 2016, Amber Heard personally gave and arranged ...

Attorneys for Heard have said that she was physically and sexually abused by Depp, often when he was drinking or using drugs, and the op-ed fell within her right to free speech. The op-ed in question came out of Heard's relationship with the ACLU, which named her an ambassador in October 2018. Dougherty said Heard donated $350,000 to the ACLU "very soon" after August 2016, when she said in a statement that she would donate half of the divorce settlement to the ACLU and the other half to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. At some point, her ex-husband Johnny Depp donated $100,000 to the ACLU on her behalf.