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Heard forced to admit she hasn't given $7m divorce cash to charity

Evening Standard

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May 17, 2022

AMBER HEARD has admitted she has not yet donated her $7 million divorce settlement to charity but insists her libel battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp is to blame.

- Tristan Kirk

Heard forced to admit she hasn't given $7m divorce cash to charity

The Aquaman star, 36, went on Dutch TV in October 2018 to say the money "was donated" to civil rights group the American Civil Liberties Union and a children's hospital in Los Angeles.

During her court battle with Depp, 58, in London in 2020, Heard repeated the claim, saying under oath: “The entire amount of my divorce settlement was donated to charity.”

But giving evidence to her libel trial with Depp in Fairfax County, Virginia, Heard said she intends to honour the pledge but has not yet paid the money.

“I pledged the entirety of the $7 million to charity and I intend to fulfil those obligations," she said.

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