Torchde Team | January 10, 2021
A letter from Children’s Hospital LA (CHLA) reveals that Amber Heard never donated the total 3.5 million from her divorce settlement that she pledged in 2016. The pledge revolved around her pursuit to show the public that her allegations of abuse were not a scheme or about money. CHLA sent a letter inquiring about the remainder of the donation in June 2019. It appears the organization never received anything other than what Johnny Depp donated.
“I am following up on the correspondence that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Foundation received on August 26, 2016, which CHLA was notified by Edward White, Edward White & Company, that a $3.5 million pledged gift had been made in your honor. In the correspondence, see enclosure, it states, ‘the first of multiple scheduled installments to honor the full amount of Ms. Heard’s $3,500,000 pledged gift’. Since the first installment, CHLA has not received further installments.“ – Children’s Hospital LA
“Seven million in total was donated. I split it between ACLU and Children Hospital of Los Angeles.” “I wanted nothing.” – Amber Heard
Heard’s team is now blaming her failure to submit the donation on her defamation battle with Johnny Depp. Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, Heard’s legal council had this to say: “Amber has already been responsible for seven figures in donations to charitable causes and intends to continue to contribute and eventually fulfill her pledge. However, Amber has been delayed in that goal because Mr. Depp filed a lawsuit against her, and consequently, she has been forced to spend millions of dollars defending Mr. Depp’s false accusations against her.”
The letter sent by CHLA supports Depp’s claims but Bredehoft is accusing Depp of planting stories. Bredehoft continued: “Mr. Depp’s effort to plant stories in the media criticizing Amber for not yet fulfilling all the donations she pledged to charity is yet another desperate attempt to divert attention from the UK Court’s findings relating to allegations of Mr. Depp committing domestic abuse and violence.”
According to court records the first donation of $100,000 was given to CHLA directly by check from Johnny Depp to initiate the process. The divorce settlement was paid to Heard throughout 2017 and early 2018 in 1 to 2 million dollar installments, with one lower payment of $500,000. Depp’s libel and defamation lawsuits against the Aquaman actress didn’t start until July 2019.