Johnny Depp has donated the proceeds from an NFT sale to 4 charities, together with the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles, which has ties to Amber Heard.

On Wednesday (6 July), Depp’s By no means Worry Reality NFT (non-fungible token) platform introduced that it had raised “almost $800,000 (£666,530) in complete donations” which was break up between 4 organisations.

The tweet went on to call the beneficiaries: “Perth Youngsters’s Hospital Basis (by way of CAF America), Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital Youngsters’s Charity (by way of CAF America), The Footprint Coalition, [and] the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles.”

Of the 4 beneficiary charities, the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles has been related to Depp’s ex-wife Heard.

Throughout the estranged couple’s latest defamation trial, it was revealed Heard had didn’t donate her $7m (£5.8m) divorce payout from Depp as she had pledged to do in 2016.

One of many two charities Heard stated she would break up the settlement between was the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles. The opposite was the American Civil Liberties Union.

After the announcement of Depp’s NFT sale, followers praised The Pirates of the Caribbean actor for his “endless kindness”.

Alluding to the trial, one individual wrote: “And this, women and gents, is philanthropy. And the distinction between an unfulfilled pledge, and a straight donation. PS Pledges most frequently have a schedule for fulfilment. And a signed pledge automobile. I’m sure these organizations are very grateful.”

Heard was subjected to intense beneath cross-examination from Depp’s legal professional Camille Vasquez through the trial when she claimed she had been unable to honour these pledges due to authorized prices from her ex-husband suing her.

The Aquaman star additionally stated she used the phrase “pledged” and “donated” interchangeably, after which individually in contrast making the donations to purchasing a home via mortgage funds over time.

“I pledged everything to charity. Whenever you say you purchase a home, you don’t pay for the whole home at one time. You pay it over time,” she stated on the time.

An nameless juror within the defamation trial opposing Depp and Heard beforehand stated the revelation that she didn’t donate the divorce settlement to charity as she’d claimed was “a fiasco” within the eyes of the jury.

Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Put up the place she described herself as a sufferer of home abuse and spoke of feeling “the total pressure of our tradition’s wrath for ladies who communicate out”.

Heard countersued Depp for $100m (£83m) for “orchestrating a smear marketing campaign” towards her.

Delivering its verdict, a jury of seven decided that Heard had defamed Depp on all three counts. Depp was awarded $10m in compensatory damages and $5m in punitive damages, which had been later diminished to the state’s authorized restrict of $350,00.

Heard received one in all her three counterclaims, with the jury discovering that Depp – by way of his lawyer Adam Waldman – defamed her by branding her allegations a couple of 2016 incident “an ambush, a hoax”.

“Do you assume to the jurors sitting there, that was you getting caught in a lie?” requested Savannah Guthrie, throughout Heard’s interview with the NBC host on US TV final month, referring to her testimony concerning the donations.

In response, Heard stated the trial was used to attempt to paint her as “a liar”, arguing that she shouldn’t have needed to pledge her complete settlement within the first place for folks to imagine her accusations of abuse towards Depp.

In the meantime, Depp has seemingly criticised Heard on a brand new album he’s releasing with musician Jaeff Beck.