Amber still to give £5m divorce cash to charity
AMBER Heard has admitted she has yet to give the bulk of her £5million divorce settlement to charity as promised after her ex-husband Johnny Depp accused her of pocketing the sum.
The American actress vowed to divide the payout between two charities in 2016.
But Miss Heard, 34, has given just £74,000 to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, while the amount donated to her other nominated charity, the American Civil Liberties Union, is unknown, according to documents seen by DailyMail.com.
Miss Heard claimed she had been delayed in making payments after being forced to spend ‘millions’ defending herself against her exhusband in court.
Depp, 57, has accused his ex-wife of lying about her intention to donate the money to charity, but she has claimed she will ‘eventually fulfil her pledge’.
The actor, who lost his libel case against The Sun last year after it called him a ‘wife beater’, took his latest swipe at Miss Heard ahead of his defamation suit against her in the US. He said the assertion in her witness statement that she donated the ‘entire amount’ of her divorce settlement to charity was false.
One of the reasons Judge Andrew Nichol found in favour of The Sun during the libel trial was that Miss Heard’s donation did not tally with Depp’s assertion that she was a ‘gold digger’.
Miss Heard’s US attorney Elaine Bredehoft claimed her ex-husband had acted to ‘plant stories’ criticising her ‘to divert attention from the UK court’s findings relating to allegations of Mr Depp committing domestic abuse and violence’.