The LAPD doesn’t have to be lying. Bruises usually do not show immediately after impact. Her face would have been red at best and crying is also a causation of redness. It’s not evidence of a crime. So I don’t understand why the LAPD saying they saw no bruise equates to “she must be lying.” Furthermore, they would not…

No disrespect to its honest members, but the LAPD is not known for following the letter of the law…especially when it comes to celebrities. Granted, the following anecdote was from 20 years ago, but it was definitively proven that the LAPD was purposely looking the other way regarding OJ Simpson’s abuse of Nicole…

Except a divorce settlement isn’t what you earn, it’s effectively what you already own, at least in California, if I understand the law correctly. If Depp were making ongoing alimony payments, that would be taxable income, but the idea behind a divorce settlement is essentially “Party A and Party B owned this house…

Hmmmmm. I can’t help but think their was more going on. No credible lawyer would act so dodgy on a case gaining worldwide attention. We’ll probably never know the details but something in the milk is dirty.

Nope. She has had the same divorce lawyers, Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig, throughout this entire thing. Her other lawyer, Charles Harder, has been handling a lawsuit for her since the beginning. The only lawyer she hired that wasn’t there from the start is Pierce O’Donnell. Pierce and Charles are amazing…

Well, Amber’s divorce lawyers Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig are terrible and clearly do not care about her. It doesn’t surprise me that they would release a statement where they didn’t bother to fact check.

Well, her lawyers have made statements without her consent before and had to retract them. I also doubt her lawyers bothered to do any research on his charitable donations because they don’t care.

I would bet this is a division of martial property not alimony. If you read the article linked above she made $260,000 so far in 2016 if the settlement is non taxable she will only be able to take a small portion of the charitable deduction and if she makes around the same for the next 5 years there is no way she will…

Celebrities — they aren’t just like us!

If it’s considered alimony it’s taxable if it’s a division of marital property it’s not. I would assume her lawyers would have worked this consideration into the settlement agreement. The fact that he is donating it directly to the charity makes me think it’s not alimony because if it was that already would have been…

If it’s alimony it is income. If it’s a property settlement, like I’m going to keep the house and the cars but here’s $7million to account for your half of all of those things, it isn’t income to her.

But it sounds like this isn’t considered income. It was already taxed in previous years and the couple simply divided up the assets. No real tax implications, unless it’s considered alimony.

I’m no lawyer, but if Amber never received the check, Johnny didn’t pay her. (And therefor still owes her.) Were I she, I would thank him very much for his thoughtful GIFT, then sweetly ask for the monies he still owes ME.

I think thinking her having the money would be to her detriment assumes a lot. I’ve hated a lot of my exes enough to be willing to go into a little debt to do what I think was right. She definitely would not come out on top financially but emotionally it might have been important to get. But I know you really meant…

Ah, but the full amount wasn’t “contributed”. Payments will be made “multiple installments” until the total is met. Well played, attorneys and or accountants, well played.

Thanks for the tea and sympathy, (ok, there wasn’t any tea but I’m sure that you would have offered me some, in real life, because you’re good.) The point I wanted to make, but didn’t, was that as completely fucked as my own parents’ divorce was, and it was extremely fucked up, it was not the worst one, by a long…

I honestly don’t know too much about the Heard/ Depp thing, but I know first hand that sometimes divorce can get so ugly, sane people upon hearing the details simply can’t believe them. My parent’s divorce took nearly 5 years to finalize, and brought both of them to the edge of bankruptcy. The things that happened…

Thank you for pointing this out!

Just to complicate things: donations to the ACLU per se are not tax-deductable. Donations to the ACLU Foundation are. Is there any reportage anywhere as to which one got the check? (Page about the difference.) (Donations to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles are tax-deductable.)

Wow, there are at least three levels of dickishness here. But they seem to coalesce around a basic truth: he’s petty, vindictive, passive aggressive, and domineering. This is so passive aggressive, I feel like we need a new term.