The Pirates of the Caribbean actor donated $800,000 to the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation via the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Depp, 58, has an NFT community called Never Fear Truth where he sells digital artworks. He has reportedly also donated to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, the Footprint Coalition, and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
“Johnny Depp’s Never Fear Truth NFT sale was always intended to benefit charities and we are pleased to be able to confirm that nearly $800,000 in total donations have been contributed,” the Never Fear Truth Twitter account posted in a statement.
“We are grateful and very thankful to the Never Fear Truth community for this tremendous accomplishment—making this project one of the most philanthropic NFT sales to date—and we are excited to build on this success and making an even greater impact going forward.”
Perth Children’s Hospital publically thanked the actor for the donation, tweeting: “Thank you so much @JohnnyDeppNFT for your generosity in helping support @PCHFWA and WA sick kids. These funds will make a significant impact in helping keep @PerthChildrens world-class for our children and families.”
News of Depp’s donation comes amid his recent court victory against Heard in which a jury found she had defamed him with malice.
Following her loss in the blockbuster trial earlier this summer, Heard, 36, is now being investigated by Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) over allegations that she lied under oath after bringing her pet dogs into the country in May 2015.
Following a March 2015 incident in Australia with Depp, in which the pair got into an argument and his finger was severed, Heard brought their two Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country. She reportedly checked “no” to the question on her immigration card asking about importing anything into the country that needed to be declared.
Australia has extremely strict quarantine laws and pets from abroad must be declared. The actress was charged In July 2015 with illegally importing them to Australia.
In a taped apology, Heard said she was “truly sorry” for not declaring her dogs when she entered Australia.
The case was dropped after Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying travel documents in April 2016. However, that court appearance has prompted an investigation into allegations of perjury over whether she provided misleading evidence regarding the circumstances under which the dogs were brought into the country.
Now an Australian politician, Barnaby Joyce, has called for Heard to receive a jail sentence if she is found guilty of perjury.
“Those dogs, when they came in, there were a lot of documents that were signed that said there were no animals there. And it now looks like Ms. Heard has allegedly not told the truth,” Joyce told the Australian morning show Sunrise.
