Johnny Depp donated proceeds from an NFT sale to four charities, including Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which is affiliated with Amber Heard.
On Wednesday (July 6), Depp’s platform Never Fear Truth NFT (non-fungible token) announced that it had raised “nearly $800,000 in total donations,” which were split across four organizations.
The tweet further named the recipients: “Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation (through CAF America), Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (through CAF America), The Footprint Coalition, [y] Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Of the four beneficiary charities, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been linked to Depp’s ex-wife Heard.
During the couple’s recent defamation trial, it was revealed that Heard failed to donate the $7 million share of the money she received from Johnny Depp in her divorce, as she promised in 2016.
One of the two charities that Heard said she would split the money to was Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The other was the American Civil Liberties Union.
Following Depp’s announcement of the NFT sale, fans praised the Pirates of the Caribbean actor for his “endless goodness.”
Referring to the process, one person wrote: “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is philanthropy. And the difference between a broken promise and a direct donation. PS promises usually have a fulfillment calendar. And a signed commitment vehicle. I’m sure these organizations are very grateful.”
Heard was questioned extensively during the trial by Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, when she claimed she was unable to keep those promises due to legal costs incurred by her ex-husband’s lawsuit.
The Aquaman star also said he used the words “promised” and “donated” interchangeably and later compared the donations separately to buying a home through mortgage payments over time.
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“I promised to donate the entire amount to charity. When you say you’re buying a house, don’t pay for the entire house at once. You pay it over time,” he then explained.
An anonymous juror in the Depp and Heard defamation trial previously noted that the revelation that she had not donated the divorce settlement to charity, as she had claimed, was “a dud” in the eyes of the jury.
Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post in which he described himself as a victim of domestic violence and spoke of “feeling all of our culture’s anger at women who speak up.”
Heard is suing Depp for $100 million for organizing “a smear campaign” against her.
In its verdict, a seven-person jury found that Heard defamed Depp on all three counts. Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, which were later reduced to the state legal limit of $350.00.
Heard won one of her three counterclaims when the jury found that Depp — through his attorney Adam Waldman — defamed her by calling her allegations about a 2016 incident “an ambush, a hoax.”
“Do you think the jury sitting there felt like you were the one caught in a lie?” Savannah Guthrie asked during Heard’s interview with the NBC host last month, referencing her testimony about donations .
In response, Heard claimed the trial was used to paint her as a “liar,” arguing that she didn’t need to jeopardize her entire deal for people to believe her allegations of abuse against Depp.