Amber Heard to reveal if she gave Depp divorce settlement to charity

Johnny Depp has snagged a victory in his court docket battle in opposition to ex-wife, Amber Heard, that can pressure a charity to disclose whether or not the actress lived as much as her guarantees and donated her $7 million divorce settlement.

The “Pirates of Caribbean” star, 58, was granted a partial petition by a choose in New York that ordered the American Civil Liberties Union to launch paperwork to substantiate whether or not Heard, 35, donated the payout from their 2017 divorce, USA Today reported.

“Mr. Depp is most gratified by the Courtroom’s resolution,” Depp’s legal professional Benjamin Chew the outlet in an announcement.

His legal professionals have alleged that Heard was mendacity about donating the whole lot of her divorce settlement to the ACLU and to Youngsters’s Hospital Los Angeles — and should have price him his libel case in opposition to a British newspaper in November 2020.

His legal professional, Andrew Caldecott, argued that Heard’s pledge to charity was a “calculated and manipulative lie” that “tipped the scales in opposition to Mr. Depp from the very starting.”

Depp misplaced the case when a choose dominated {that a} headline that he was “wife-beater” throughout his marriage to Heard was “considerably true.”

Attorneys for Information Group Newspapers have insisted that Heard didn’t lie concerning the donations as a result of she was pledging to pay it out over 10 years.

She had made “quite a few funds already in pursuance of those pledges,” legal professional, Adam Wolanski, mentioned, USA Immediately reported.