Johnny Depp to donate Amber Heard’s $1 million to charity

For his sixtieth birthday – completed on June 9th – Johnny Depp has decided to give a six-figure gift to five different charities. To be honest, the gift comes from the pockets of her ex Amber Heard, who in December was sentenced to compensate the actor for the Pirates of the Caribbean following the most media-hyped defamation lawsuit of the decade. The round figure agreed by the two, which arrived – as the actress explained on social media – “after a long reflection”, had been precisely one million dollars, which today – sources close to Depp say – have been divided into five equal shares of $200,000to be allocated to five different non-profit organizations.

The five realities that will receive the donation are the Make-A-Film Foundation, which fulfills the cinematic wishes of children with medical conditions by helping them create short films in collaboration with well-known actors, directors and writers; there The Painted Turtle, an organization that runs camps and outdoor experiences for children with serious illnesses; there Red Feather, which is concerned with improving the conditions of American Indians who still reside on reservations; L’Amazonia Fund Alliancewhich promotes and supports indigenous communities throughout the Amazon and the Tetiaroa Societyborn to protect the communities and the ecosystem of the Pacific atoll of the same name where Marlon Brando had a home and the dream of transforming it into an international ecological model.

Johnny Depp’s choice to donate the agreed sum after the long and tormented process with Amber Heard had in fact already been announced at the time by the plaintiff’s lawyers. “We are pleased to officially close the door to this painful chapter for Mr. Depp, who made it clear during this trial that his priority was to bring the truth to light,” Depp’s lawyers announced in a statement released last December. “The $1 million payment – which Mr. Depp has promised and will donate (indeed) to charities – reinforces Ms. Heard’s acknowledgment of the conclusion of the legal system’s rigorous pursuit of justice.”

Less satisfied – of course – she had been the statement released by Amber Heard“It’s important for me to say that I’ve never chosen this,” Heard wrote in his statement. “I defended my truth, and in doing so my life, because I knew it had been destroyed. The vilification I’ve faced on social media is an amplified version of how women are once again being victimized when they come forward.”