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Amber Heard says she never completed her pledged $7 million charity donations because Johnny Depp filed a $50 million lawsuit against her

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Amber Heard testifying in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Monday.Steve Helber/Pool via REUTERS
  • Amber Heard never finished donating all $7 million from her divorce settlement from Johnny Depp.

  • She testified Monday that she halted donations when Depp sued her demanding $50 million in damages.

  • She said she still intended to pay all the money on top of $500,000 Elon Musk paid on her behalf.

When Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reached a divorce settlement in 2016, Heard announced that she'd donate her entire $7 million payout to charity. She said the money would be split between two organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

By October 2018, Heard had received the full settlement amount, she testified Monday in Depp's defamation trial against her. She also said in a media interview at around the same time that she had already donated the funds. But an ACLU executive testified earlier in the trial that the organization never received the full $3.5 million it was promised and that about half the donations it received in Heard's name came from Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla who dated Heard after her breakup with Depp.

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Heard said on the stand Monday that she still planned to donate all of the money she promised but that Depp's lawsuit — which demands up to $50 million in damages — got in the way.

"I still fully intend on honoring all of my pledges," Heard said. "I would love him to stop suing me so I can."