A week ago, Amber Heard announced that she would be donating the entirety of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity. As in, Johnny Depp owed Amber $7 million and SHE was going to split the money between the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and several domestic violence shelters/charities, all of her choosing. The announcement made Amber look like a saint to most people, and it just seemed like the final screw-you to Johnny Depp. As in, Amber was telling him, “I didn’t even need your money, I’m not a golddigger, I’m free and now everyone knows the truth about you.” So of course Depp had to react. And his reaction is… not great.
Johnny Depp is heaping praise on Amber Heard for donating her $7 million divorce settlement to charity … and he’s so moved he’s sending the checks directly to the 2 organizations she personally picked. Amber announced after striking her settlement she would donate every penny to the ACLU and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles — $3.5 mil each. We checked with Children’s Hospital Tuesday and they had not yet received any of the money.
We’ve learned both the ACLU and Children’s Hospital got checks Wednesday from Johnny, on behalf of Amber. The checks are the first in a number of installments that will eventually total $7 million.
A rep for Johnny tells TMZ, “Following Amber Heard’s announcement that her divorce settlement was to be divided equally and gifted to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the American Civil Liberties Union, two exceptionally deserving and important charities, Johnny Depp has sent the first of multiple installments of those monies to each charity in the name of Amber Heard, which when completed will honor the full amount of Ms. Heard’s pledge.”
The rep adds, “Ms. Heard’s generosity in giving to these wonderful causes is deeply respected.” Everybody happy now?
[From TMZ]
In the statement given to People Magazine, Amber didn’t name the domestic-violence charities she would donate to, but in other media outlets, apparently Amber did name the ACLU as one of the organizations to which she would donate. The ACLU isn’t a specific domestic-violence charity, although they do a lot of work on women’s issues, and I tended to believe that Amber would spread out the money among several different charities, which was her choice to make. Beyond that, the donations were supposed to be from Amber. As in, Depp was supposed to pay Amber $7 million, and she could donate that money to whichever organization SHE chose. Johnny Depp is once again taking away Amber’s power and it’s so flagrantly bitchy and narcissistic on Depp’s part, it’s almost sad. I also suspect that this isn’t even close to legal – their settlement agreement surely included language about how Depp was supposed to pay Amber directly, not donate “in her name.”
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