Johnny Depp Granted Permission to Determine If Amber Heard Donated Divorce Settlement

A New York judge has ruled in favor of Johnny Depp’s request to determine whether ex-wife Amber Heard followed through with donating part of her divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The actress, 35, previously pledged to donate her $7 million settlement to both the ACLU and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shortly after the pair’s divorce was finalized in 2017. According to the court papers, filed by Depp and his lawyers in New York and obtained by PEOPLE this past May, they have been asking both organizations to share how much Heard has donated.

USA Today reports that a judge in New York has granted Depp, 58, permission to determine whether the Aquaman actress donated to the ACLU. The organization has been asked to release documents to confirm.

“Mr. Depp is most gratified by the Court’s decision,”the Sweeney Todd actor’s attorney, Benjamin Chew, told the outlet in a statement.

In a July 22 hearing transcript provided to PEOPLE by Heard’s attorney Elaine Bredehoft, Bredehoft said her client is still planning to donate one half of her total settlement to the ACLU and the other half to CHLA — and while “it is undetermined what those payment schedules will be,” Heard has already made “the first payment toward the pledges” and then some — specifically, “more than a million” each to the ACLU and CHLA.

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“We produced the documents from the ACLU on how much she has. She has always said she fully intends to continue to give the full $7 million, but she can’t do it yet. She will do it when she can. But she has given a significant amount to both,” Bredehoft added of Heard, in part.

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