Johnny Depp Paying Out Amber Heard’s $1 Million Settlement to Charity

Amber Heard‘s million-dollar IOU to Johnny Depp has lastly been paid — and now, we all know precisely the place the cash’s going … completely different charities close to and pricey to his coronary heart.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … in mild of the million just lately making its method to Johnny — which, as we reported, was coated by Amber’s insurance coverage firm as a part of her settlement following the U.S. defamation trial — JD is prepared to dish out the dough, pronto.

We’re instructed the money might be cut up up evenly 5 alternative ways for five completely different orgs — so, $200k every — that sort out causes Johnny believes in. Those efforts embrace every little thing from aiding sick kids with life-threatening sicknesses and offering housing for traditionally disenfranchised communities … to preserving ecosystems/pure environments globally.

Specifically, he’ll be donating to the next nonprofits … Make-A-Film Foundation, The Painted Turtle, Red Feather, Tetiaroa Society and the Amazonia Fund Alliance.

Make-A-Film is comparable to Make-A-Wish, however it grants children’ needs from folks inside the movie world — actors, administrators, and so on. We’re instructed Johnny’s accomplished a brief movie with them prior to now, in order that’s why he is choosing them on his quick record.

BTW, our sources inform us two different orgs right here — Painted Turtle and Tetiaroa Society — are literally homages to heroes in Johnny’s life … specifically, Paul Newman and Marlon Brando. Each man was instrumental in these charities’ founding and success over time, and we’re instructed Johnny desires to proceed their legacies, respectively, by making these donations.

Red Feather and Amazonia, in the meantime, are all about serving to indigenous communities maintain their tradition and heritage intact everywhere in the Americas (North and South) … be it by means of shelters and sanctuaries for people or large-scale infrastructure tasks to shield villages.