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Amber Heard got $7 million from Johnny Depp in their divorce and told the world she was giving all of it to charity. Six years later, a court heard that the ACLU had received $1.3 million in her name, and almost half of it came from Elon Musk and Depp himself. They married in February 2015. In May 2016 she filed for divorce, and by August they had settled for $7 million. Right after the deal, Heard announced she would give every dollar away. Half would go to the ACLU, and half to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she said she had volunteered for 10 years. The press loved it. The money came in parts, and by October 2018 she had all of it. That December she wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. It never named Depp, but in early 2019 he sued her for $50 million anyway. In 2020, during a separate case in London, she said under oath that the whole settlement had been donated. Then in 2022 the ACLU's general counsel told a Virginia court the real number. The ACLU had received $1.3 million in her name out of the $3.5 million she promised. $350,000 came straight from her and $100,000 came from Depp. Another $500,000 is believed to have come from Musk, whom she dated after the divorce. That is about 37% of the ACLU's half, five years after the promise. Heard's answer was simple. She said she had to stop paying once Depp sued her for $50 million, and that she still planned to finish. Depp's lawyer pointed out that she had the full $7 million for 13 months before he sued. The jury gave Depp $10.35 million and Heard $2 million. In December 2022 she settled and paid him $1 million through her insurance. His lawyers announced that Depp was "pledging and will actually donate" that money to charity. In the video below, Heard explains on the stand why Depp paid $100,000 in her name, and says it was not his money to give. Would you call that a donation?