In 2016, after divorcing Johnny Depp, Amber Heard promised to donate 3.5 million dollars (about 3.4 million euros) to the American Association for Civil Rights (ACLU). The other $3.5 million, of a total of $7 million Heard was entitled to in the divorce settlement, would be donated to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Now, in the trial taking place in Virginia, in the case Depp vs Heardthe actor’s lawyers seek to prove that Not only did Amber Heard not make all the donations she proposed, she lied in court in a separate case involving the former couple., in 2020 — at that time, the actress claimed to have already donated the seven million. Elon Musk, who dated the actress after breaking up with Depp – the relationship ended in 2018 – may have secured part of that donation on behalf of Amber Heard. The purpose of Deep’s defense is to discredit the actress.
In June 2020, Rolling Stone said that Johnny Depp’s legal team had submitted a request to the ACLU to review records related to the $3.5 million allegedly donated to the company. After repeatedly refusing to hand over the records, the association was forced, by the New York court, to present a series of documents in defense of the actor. It showed that the actress had donated only 350 thousand dollars -about 335 thousand euros- in 2017- and this, according to the magazine, was even the only donation made so far by the actress directly.
Regarding Musk’s role in donations to the association, the same magazine reported on an email exchanged between the executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, and Amber Heard, where the director would have stated: “I had a great meeting with Elon. I love that boy and I love him too.”
It was this association that approached Heard in 2018, proposing to write a opinion piece on gender violence, and having suggested that the actress “could insert her personal story, saying how painful it was, as a survivor of gender-based violence.” This request will have been made by an ACLU administrator in an email read in court. The association would thus seek to gain prominence to the “ride on horseback” of the actress.
In court in the current trial, Johnny Depp’s attorney, Ben Chew, argued that the ACLU had actively sought to hide the lack of the promised $3.5 million donations from Amber Heard.
To present this argument, the lawyer relied on testimonies from union leaders made for the case being judged. According to Vulture, in December of last year, regarding the collection of testimonies on the case Depp vs HeardACLU director Terence Dougherty stated that the 3.5 million dollars would be donated over a period of 10 years. On April 28, however, the same official revealed that, Until that moment, 1.3 million dollars had already been donated. — the equivalent of around EUR 1,2 million.
According to Buzzfeed News, this amount would correspond to the initial $350,000 donated by Heard after the separation, $100,000 donated directly by Johnny Depp, and two other transfers of $500,000 and $350,000 donated on behalf of the actress. still so, the highest figure (and of the other 350,000 is also suspected) is related to a fund linked to Elon Musk. “I think Elon made a donation in my name in one of the years,” Amber Heard, who met the billionaire in 2016 at a Met Gala in New York, admitted on Monday.
The American Association for Civil Rights revealed that the owner of Tesla has already donated a total of six million dollars, about 5.8 million euros, to the ACLU, in an unspecified period of time.
Source: Observadora
