Amber Heard was proven to be lying about donating $7 million divorce settlement from Johnny Deppo
People magazine reported Thursday that Amber Heard lied about donating the $7 million divorce settlement she received from Johnny Depp in 2016 to charity.
After Depp and Heard's divorce settled in 2015, Heard publicly vowed that she would split and donate the settlement money between two charities, the ACLU and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
However, ACLU General Counsel Terrence Dougherty said in a video statement that Hurd never donated $3.5 million to the organization.
Dougherty claimed that the organization had only received $1.3 million out of the $3.5 million promised, including a donation from Depp himself in Heard's name.
According to Dougherty, Heard paid $350,00 directly, and the organization later received a check for $100,000 from Depp. He also received $500,00 from a donor-aided Vanguard fund and $350,000 from a donor-aided fund at Fidelity.
Dougherty also claimed that he believes the $500,000 donation came from Elon Musk.
During the statement, Depp's lawyers asked Dougherty, "She hasn't donated $3.5 million to the ACLU to date, true?" To which he replied: "True."
It was also revealed that the Tesla CEO handled the donation on Hurd's behalf, and in a 2016 email to the ACLU also revealed that the payments would be made over a 10-year period.
Dougherty was also asked to comment on why Musk was "representing this on behalf of Ms. Hurd," to which he said "because the Tesla CEO had a prior relationship with the organization."
When the organization reached out to Hurd to ask for payment in 2019, they "we learned he was having financial difficulties," Dougherty said.
Dougherty's testimony proved Heard lied in a UK court in 2020 when he said he had donated settlement money to organisations; Depp lost that trial.