Attorney claims Amber Heard paid $6 million in legal fees

Elaine Bredehoft, Amber Heard’s attorney, took the stand on Friday to make her closing argument to the jury in the defamation case brought against her by ex-Johnny Depp, claiming that her client had paid her legal team upwards of $6 million in costs.

Bredehoft said in her statement to The New York Post that Heard had been compelled to spend more than $6 million in legal expenses to her lawyers in the six years after her divorce from Depp.

She also alleged that the Aquaman actress was unable to make the full $7 million donations she had promised to the ACLU and a children’s hospital following the divorce settlement because of the legal bills.

Heard has paid ‘extraordinarily costly’ legal bills since Depp sued her and ‘started a smear campaign against her,’ according to Bredehoft.

For the uninitiated, a former acquaintance of Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, testified earlier this week that Heard failed to pay the $3.5 million pledged to the children’s hospital.

Witness Jennifer Howell acknowledged in a pre-recorded deposition that Tesla creator Elon Musk made a $250,000 gift to the charity Art of Elyseum on Heard’s behalf.

The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA), on the other hand, has yet to receive the $3.5 million pledged.