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Terence Dougherty, ACLU general counsel and chief operating officer, told the court in a videotaped deposition from December that Heard has donated $1.3 million ...

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Amber's pledge was revisited Thursday in Depp's defamation trial against Heard ... with ACLU honcho Terence Dougherty saying the non-profit received 4 donations ...

The jury laughed as the video played in court, and it even got a reaction from the judge ... who called it a first in her time on the bench. Dougherty said Elon emailed the ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, back in 2016 indicating Amber would donate the $3.5 million over 10 years, but he says 2019 was the last year the ACLU got a donation from Heard. What's more, Dougherty says Amber only gave the ACLU $350k directly, while Depp wrote them a check for $100k. The ACLU says the other payments included $500k from a donor-advised fund at Vanguard and $350k from a donor-advised fund at Fidelity. And, get this ... Dougherty says the ACLU believes the $500k payment was actually from a fund set up by Elon Musk, whom Amber dated after her split from Depp. Here's the deal ... when Amber reached a divorce settlement with Johnny Depp back in 2016, she announced she would donate her entire $7 million payout to charity, splitting it between the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and the ACLU ... to be paid within 10 years. Amber Heard is getting called out in court for allegedly failing to follow through on a huge donation to charity -- the ACLU says she gave them less than half of her $3.5 million pledge -- though she's still got a few years left to fulfill that promise.

Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp to the ACLU. ACLU COO and General Counsel Terence Dougherty ...

In December 2018, the same day Heard's op-ed in the Washington Post was published, Heard announced she had taken on a role as an ACLU ambassador on women's rights. When Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reached a settlement in their divorce in 2016, Heard announced that she would be donating the entirety of her $7 million payout to charity. Insider reached out to Musk for comment on the donation in Heard's name on Thursday but did not immediately receive a response. Depp has accused Heard of ruining his reputation and career by insinuating that she had been the victim of domestic violence in a 2018 Washington Post 0p-ed. "We reached out to Heard starting in 2019 for the next installment of her giving and we learned that she was having financial difficulties," Dougherty said. - Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp to the ACLU.

Amber Heard's op-ed about domestic violence was timed to capitalize on the release of 'Aquaman,' an ACLU executive testified.

At the time of their divorce, Depp agreed to pay Heard $7 million, which she promised to donate to the ACLU and to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, with $3.5 million going to each charity. Dougherty’s testimony included internal ACLU emails about the drafting of the op-ed. Depp alleges that Heard fabricated her abuse allegations and used them to advance her own career at his expense. Dougherty explained that the publicity campaign for the film would help get more attention for the op-ed. “From the ACLU’s perspective, Amber is about to receive an incredible amount of press and be in the public eye,” Dougherty said. At the trial on Thursday, Depp’s attorneys played a video deposition of Terence Dougherty, the ACLU’s general counsel.

A deposition given for Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial has revealed the Aquaman star did not fulfil her pledge to donate $3.5 million ...

The schedule was not signed by Heard but other documents indicate she was aware of the 10-year commitment, The Independent reports. The court was shown documents including a thank you note to Heard for her pledge, as well as a pledge form and a schedule regarding the donation. The COO said that in the wake of the pledge the ACLU received $350,000 directly from Heard, $100,000 paid through Depp, $500,000 paid through a donor-advised fund and a further $350,000 also paid through a donor-advised fund, amounting to a total of $1.3 million. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was connected to the donor-advised fund that contributed $850,000 to ACLU on behalf of Heard, and Dougherty told the court that based on an email from Musk it was believed the $3.5m would be paid to the charity over the course of ten years, though the plan was never confirmed. @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/n0a2N2v8Yo April 28, 2022 Dougherty told the court Heard had been put forward as an ambassador for the ACLU as a result of her pledge to provide a donation of $3.5 million to the charity, which works to 'protect people's rights' and 'defend democracy'.

The general counsel of the ACLU testified that the foundation believed that billionaire Elon Musk was behind a $500000 payment to help the actress fulfill a ...

In his deposition, Dougherty talked of the work that the ACLU did to craft the op-ed. He said that the ACLU reached out to her at one point “and we learned that she was having financial difficulties.” But Musk had indicated in a 2016 email to the organization that Heard’s pledge would be fulfilled in installments over 10 years. The latter payment was via Heard. Another $100,000 came from Depp and was credited to Heard.

Heard said that she would be donating the $7 million payout that she received from a 2016 settlement in her divorce from actor Johny Depp, to ACLU and the ...

The actor claimed that these allegations ruined his reputation and career. Though the op-ed didn't mention Depp's name, the actor's lawyer said that it was clear that Heard was referring to him. Heard said that she would be donating the $7 million payout that she received from a 2016 settlement in her divorce from Depp, to ACLU and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, according to Insider.

Amber Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million to the ACLU, half of her $7 million divorce settlement with Johnny Depp. She really paid $1.3 million, ...

Heard insists that the pledge was meant to be a 10-year commitment. Dougherty agreed that sizing down references from her marriage and divorce to Depp made it more impactful. For Heard, stardom did stave off financial difficulties, and Dougherty said he learned about them in 2019. During his testimony, Dougherty reviewed communications showing the chatter about the drafting, placement, and publication editorial. On Dec. 18, 2018, Heard published a Washington Post op-ed titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. Dougherty testified that only $350,000 of that amount was donated under Heard’s name.

An executive for the American Civil Liberties Union testified Thursday in Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's defamation trial that he believes Tesla CEO Elon ...

“You weren’t in love with him, and you told me a thousand times you were just filling space,” Carino wrote to Heard when she expressed sadness over their split, according to Vulture. The restraining order was dropped and when their divorce was finalized the couple released a statement saying “neither party has made false accusations for financial gain.” Depp has repeatedly denied the claims of abuse, and claimed the suggestion of him having abused Heard ruined his career. When the couple split, Heard filed a temporary restraining order against the Edward Scissorhands actor, and said he had abused her throughout their relationship.

In addition to Heard's planned donation to the ACLU, she said she would donate the other half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the Children's Hospital ...

Dougherty said he had reviewed earlier drafts of Heard’s op-ed and, based upon that, “knew that they were referring to Johnny Depp [and] her marriage.” In the final edit, however, Heard’s legal team “neutered” references to her marriage and domestic violence. (Heard dated Musk after her split with Depp, though Musk was “just filling space,” according to testimony on April 27.) In addition to Heard’s planned donation to the ACLU, she said she would donate the other half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was not immediately clear how much she has paid to the hospital to date. However, there have not been any concrete signs that Heard won’t eventually follow through, according to Dougherty. “I’m not aware of any indication that Ms. Heard has decided to no longer pay additional amounts,” Dougherty said in the deposition played Thursday. Doughtery also said that $500,000 of the $1.3 million donated thus far was from a charitable account that appeared to be “associated with Elon Musk” and he thought the tech billionaire had set up this account. There was some doubt around Heard paying the rest as she did not sign a “pledge form” that would make the donations legally binding, Dougherty testified. When the ACLU reached out to Heard in 2019 about future installments, Dougherty said, “We learned that she was having financial difficulties.” “She can be confident that this gift will help other women live safely and freely.” But according to a deposition played Thursday in Depp’s defamation trial against Heard, it appears that, to this day, only $1.3 million has been donated to the civil-rights nonprofit.

Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have chipped in at least $500000 to ex-girlfriend Amber Heard's donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, ...

“I’m assuming the former, but I don’t know.” “Either that means a separate donor-advised fund he has at Fidelity or from — Fidelity, you know, direct investment accounts he has at Fidelity,” he said. That money included a $500,000 donation from a fund at Vanguard and $350,000 from a Fidelity fund, Dougherty testified.

After promising to donate half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union in 2016, Amber Heard personally gave and arranged ...

Attorneys for Heard have said that she was physically and sexually abused by Depp, often when he was drinking or using drugs, and the op-ed fell within her right to free speech. The op-ed in question came out of Heard's relationship with the ACLU, which named her an ambassador in October 2018. Dougherty said Heard donated $350,000 to the ACLU "very soon" after August 2016, when she said in a statement that she would donate half of the divorce settlement to the ACLU and the other half to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. At some point, her ex-husband Johnny Depp donated $100,000 to the ACLU on her behalf.

American Civil Liberties Union's general counsel testifies that at least $500000 came from fund connected to Elon Musk.

Heard, he testified, berated Depp as Connolly led him away from the house to his own apartment where he administered first aid, saying, “Fuck off! “I’ve seen him smoke marijuana,” Connolly said. I’ve never seen him do it.” “He was not happy. The payments, which Heard requested to come tax free, would have required Depp to make $30m, White said. “You weren’t in love with him.” I can see bone.” “It’s flapping around. Depp, he surmised, was not enjoying himself. The two celebrities appeared on Heard’s publicly available witness list at the start of the trial, but Musk’s attorney Alex Spiro has said his client will not testify. It would get more regular. The Fairfax county court in Virginia was told that Heard had “spent time” with Musk while she sought to resurrect her relationship with Depp in 2016.

ACLU is still waiting for Amber Heard to pay the $3.5 million she pledged from her divorce settlement from Johnny Depp. In 2016, the "Drive Angry" star ...

In addition to the passage about “a public figure representing domestic abuse,” in another passage she writes, “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.” While the trial is supposed to be over whether Depp was defamed in the article, very little testimony in the first three weeks, leading up to Thursday, has related to the article itself or its contents. “It did not refer directly to Ms. Heard’s relationship with Johnny Depp.” Much of the article talks about legislative priorities for advocates of domestic abuse prevention. But the final version contains very little about Heard’s personal experiences. Dougherty testified about the push-and-pull that occurred between first draft and publication — strategically timed by both the ACLU and Heard to coincide with the release of “Aquaman,” a movie in which she played a prominent role.