Amber Heard failed to donate promised $3.5M of divorce settlement to charity

Shocking evidences are being presented in court, as Johnny Depp's defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard is reaching its final stages. 

Terence Dougherty, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), claimed Heard promised to pay the organisation $3.5 million from her $7 million divorce settlement with Depp, over 10 years. However, she only came up with $350,000.

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He revealed Depp put up $100,000 and $500,000 was paid through a donor fund — with a total of $1.3 million donated to the ACLU. He said he believed at least the $500,000 came from billionaire Elon Musk. Heard and Musk dated following her split from Depp in 2016. 

Asked about efforts to collect the promised funds, Dougherty said they reached out to Heard in 2019 about the installments, "and we learned that she was having financial difficulties."

Dougherty's testimony was through a video deposition taken in December 2021, with Depp's lawyers questioning him first. 

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for a 2018 op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. Dougherty testified that the ACLU helped pitch and craft Heard's piece as she serves as an ACLU ambassador "for women's rights, with a focus on gender-based violence." 

When the ACLU approached Heard about writing an op-ed about gender-based violence, it was suggested she "interweave her personal story" into the article. ACLU staffers wanted to have "fire and rage" in the piece. Dougherty denied that was in reference specifically to Depp, but early drafts of the piece written by a former ACLU employee made references to Heard's relationship with Depp. Heard's attorneys advised them to remove "references to her marriage and divorce" as she signed a non-disclosure agreement with the divorce settlement.

Musk won't be testifying in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation trial — and neither will James Franco. Both men appeared on Heard's publicly available witness list at the start of the trial, but Musk's attorney Alex Spiro said Wednesday his client will not testify.