Charities have praised Johnny Depp for donating $1 million from his defamation settlement against Amber Heard, saying he was one of the "most generous people".

On Tuesday, it was reported that Depp has chosen a total of five charities to donate the large amount from the settlement he is owed by his ex-wife Amber Heard.

The charities include the Make-A-Film Foundation, The Painted Turtle, Red Feather, Marlon Brando's Tetiaroa Society charity, and the Amazonia Fund Alliance, per The Hollywood Reporter.

It is thought that the Pirates of the Caribbean will donate $200,000 to each of the five charities.

Johnny Depp has kept his promise to donate his court settlement to charity. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty

One of the charities, the Make-A-Film Foundation, was especially grateful for the money. A rep for the organization told TMZ that Depp was "one of the most generous people we've ever worked with." Make-A-Film gives critically and terminally ill children the chance to make short films and documentaries with actors.

The outlet details that each film costs the foundation between $25,000 and $35,000, while documentaries can range from $3,000 to $5,000 - meaning Depp's donation will be able to go directly to production costs for things like equipment, props, hair and makeup, and insurance.

Depp, 60, has had a tumultuous few years in the spotlight, when he and Heard were embroiled in a much-publicized court battle last year after Depp brought the defamation case against Heard, 37, over a 2018 op-ed she had written about being the victim of domestic abuse. Although Heard did not name Depp in the article, his legal team claimed it falsely accused the Pirates of the Caribbean star of being an abuser.

The pair had initially faced off in court in the UK, where the case was decided in Heard's favor, but went head to head again in the US last year, with the trial being live-streamed daily, and Depp emerged victorious with a unanimous decision from the jury.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp battled it out in court after Depp accused her of defaming him. Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty

Following the six-week trial, Depp was awarded $15 million in total, made up of $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

The pair both launched appeals in the following months but settled the case in December 2022, with both of them dropping their appeals.

Heard said at the time that even if her appeal had been successful, she "simply cannot go through" another public retrial, adding that her settlement was "not an act of concession".

The settlement involved Heard paying $1 million to Depp, which was covered by her insurance, with the actor pledging to donate the money he received to charity - a promise he has clearly made sure to keep.

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Amber Heard has been called out in court for failing to donate her $7 million divorce settlement to charity, despite stating that she already had done so.

As reported by Insider, following Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reaching a settlement in their 2016 divorce, the Aquaman star said that she would be donating $3.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union and another $3.5 million to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

On Monday, May 16, Heard once again took to the stand to deliver her testimony in the $50 million defamation trial against her ex-husband. The 36-year-old actress is being sued by Depp after she referred to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse" in an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post back in 2018.

Heard is countersuing her the 58-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star for $100 million, claiming she was only ever violent against her ex-husband in self-defense or defense of her younger sister, per NBC News.

During her testimony on Monday, Heard faced cross-examination from Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez.

Watch the moment unfold below:

Heard was asked to confirm the comments she made during a 2018 interview in which she said had donated the $7 million settlement between the two aforementioned charities.

"That is correct, I made that statement as soon as I got a divorce and we reached the settlement. That's when I pledged it - right then," Heard told the court.

Vasquez then replied: "But you hadn't donated your entire $7 million settlement to charity at that point, had you?"

"That is incorrect," Heard tells the lawyer.

Heard is then asked: "Sitting here today, Ms. Heard, you still haven't donated the $7 million divorce settlement to charity, isn't that right?"

"Incorrect. I pledged the entirety," Heard says, saying that she still intends to fulfill a donation to the charities.

"Ms. Heard, that's not my question,"  Vasquez said. "Please, try and answer my question. Sitting here today, you have not donated the $7 million - donated, not pledged, donated - the $7 million to charity."

"I use 'pledge' and 'donation' synonymous with one another," the Aquaman star then told the court.

"I don’t use it synonymously," Vasquez replied, before asking: "As of today, you have not paid $3.5 million of your own money to the ACLU. Yes or no."

"I have not yet," Heard said.

Vasquez then asked: "As of today, you have not paid $3.5 million of your own money to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, correct?"

"I have not yet," Heard said, before adding: "Johnny sued me."

ACLU had testified earlier in the trial that they had never received the full $3.5 million Heard had promised back in 2018 and that one of the donations it had received in the actor's name came from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Musk and Heard were rumored to have dated following the actor's marriage with Depp.

Heard then confirmed Musk's intervention, by telling the court: "I believe Elon made a donation in my honor, one of the years."

The Pineapple Express star has repeatedly said that she was never with Depp for his wealth, and claimed that the reason she said she would donate the divorce settlement is that she "wanted nothing" from her ex-husband.

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Amber Heard's fans have taken action in order to help the actor with the $10.35 awarded to ex-husband Johnny Depp.

The former couple had been the subject of a high-profile defamation case that started back in April.

The 58-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star was attempting to sue Heard, 36, for $50 million after she referred to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse" in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. Meanwhile, the Aquaman star was countersuing for $100 million over comments made by Depp's former lawyer, Adam Waldman.

Amid the seven-week trial, both parties accused the other of being abusive, as witnesses and experts delivered testimonies to the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom.

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Finally, on Wednesday, the jury unanimously ruled in favor of Depp, and the court awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and punitive damages of $350,000.

Heard's attorney, Elaine Bredehoft, would later appear as a guest on the TODAY show, where she told host Savannah Guthrie that the Aquaman star can "absolutely not" pay the $10.35 million in damages.

And although Bredehoft failed to elaborate on these comments, it would appear that Heard's fans have taken action on her behalf.

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As reported by TMZ, one Heard fan went as far as to set up a GoFundMe page for Heard, looking for an initial sum of $1 million to be raised.

Per screenshots taken from the page, the fundraiser was titled 'Justice for Amber Heard' and was launched by somebody named Kimberly Moore.

The description for the fundraiser read:

"The trial was a disgrace. I believe Amber and social media protected the abuser. The judgment exceeds her net worth. It's so sad that he was able to get away with the abuse. The judgment furthers that abuse. If you can please help her. She will have direct access to the money."

Moore added that she had also been in contact with Heard's attorney so that they could "loop" the actor in.

TMZ adds that a spokesperson for GoFundMe confirmed that the fundraiser was not set up by either Amber Heard or a member of the actor's team.

Additionally, after quickly being flagged, the page was removed before "a substantial amount of money" was raised.

Amazingly, however, more GoFundMe pages have been launched in order to help support Heard.

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In the one seen in the screenshot above, organizer Marco Gonzales is asking for $8,000,000. Their description reads: "Hello, my name is Marco Gonzalez. Help raise funds for Amber Heard.

"She doesn't have the funds to pay the judgment rendered against her in a Virginia courthouse. Whether you were for her or against her, the fact remains that she does not have the resources as Johnny Depp.

"Do you really think she had a "fair trial?" What about the first amendment? Why was the matter heard in a state courtroom instead of a Federal Courthouse.

"The constitution exists for a purpose. Now, the matter will be appealed, but the appellate process is different. She will need to proceed without the constantly thinking of the enormous debt."

Of course, part of the court's ruling also awarded $2 million in damages based on her countersuit.

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Yesterday, the news broke that Johnny Depp had won the multi-million defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages after weeks of battling it out in Fairfax County Circuit Court, Virginia.

Now, the 58-year-old actor has taken to Instagram to reflect on his legal victory in a lengthy statement in which he says he feels "truly humbled" by the verdict which has given him his life back.

"Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed. All in the blink of an eye," Depp began. He was referring to Heard's 2018 Washington Post 0p-ed, in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse - and which Depp claimed ruined his reputation and his career.

"False, very serious and criminal allegations were levied at me via the media, which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content, although no charges were ever brought against me. It had already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond and it had a seismic impact on my life and my career," the star continued.

Reflecting on yesterday's verdict, he added: "And six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled."

Depp went on to say that he felt he owed it to his children - Lily-Rose, 23, and Jack, 20 - to "reveal the truth" by pursuing the case against his ex-wife.

"From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome. Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me. I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that," he wrote.

The star then thanked his loyal fans for their love and support, saying: "I am, and have been, overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and the colossal support and kindness from around the world."

"I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation, and that those supporting them never give up. I also hope that the position will now return to innocent until proven guilty, both within the courts and in the media," he added.

Towards the end of his statement, Depp paid tribute to his legal team, the judge, and the jurors who had worked on the case.

"I wish to acknowledge the noble work of the Judge, the jurors, the court staff and the Sheriffs who have sacrificed their own time to get to this point, and to my diligent and unwavering legal team who did an extraordinary job in helping me to share the truth," he wrote.

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He concluded by promising that the best is yet to come, then signed off with a Latin phrase - "veritas numquam perit" - which means "truth never perishes."

Jurors deliberated for around 14 hours before ruling unanimously that Heard has "acted with actual malice" when she defamed her ex-husband.

They did side with Heard on one of her three counterclaims, though, awarding her $2 million by the jury in compensatory damages.

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Unsealed documents from Johnny Depp's blockbuster libel trial have revealed that Amber Heard "walked away from millions" when she first divorced the actor.

Earlier this summer, the celebrity exes became the focus of a media storm around their multi-million dollar defamation trial.

After weeks of battling it out in Fairfax County Circuit Court, Virginia, jurors sided with Depp and ruled that Heard had defamed him when she claimed to be a survivor of domestic abuse in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

The verdict awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and a further $5 million in punitive damages - a sum which Heard has since claimed she can not afford to pay her ex-husband.

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However, it has now been revealed that Heard might have been able to afford the damages if she had not walked away from "tens of millions of dollars" during her divorce from Depp in 2016.

Per The Daily Beast, Heard ignored her lawyers' advice that she was entitled to half of her then-husband's income from the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which he shot during their marriage.

Depp reportedly earned $33 million for starring in the Disney film. However, documents show that Heard refused to claim half of her then husband's salary from the role - which was deemed a "community property asset" - and was told by her lawyers she was being "amazingly true to your word that this is not about the money".

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The divorce agreement Depp and Heard eventually reached in August 2016 was a hot topic during their Virginia defamation trial. Heard infamously claimed in the wake of their divorce that she would donate $7 million of her settlement to charity. During the trial, Depp's lawyers argued that the money was never actually donated and that Heard's public pledge to give it away was an example of her manipulative character.

News that Heard rejected money during her divorce from Depp is just one of the shocking new details to emerge from the 6,000-plus pages of documents from their libel trial that were unsealed over the weekend.

Per reports, the documents also reveal that Depp's legal team tried to submit nude photos of Heard as evidence and to use the death of her friend 'Logan' against her.

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