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Amber Heard Honored for Generous Donation to Children’s Hospital

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Post date April 10, 2018

A photo of Amber Heard, former wife of Johnny Depp. — Photo credit: DFree / Shutterstock

For those who follow celebrity news, the news that Amber Heard (former wife of actor Johnny Depp as of August 2017) donated the entirety of her $7 million divorce settlement to battered women is not fresh. But on Monday, April 9th, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was the first recipient to confirm her statements to that […]

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Hollywood Isn’t Donating Like It Used To

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Post date August 18, 2016

A photo of the Hollywood sign. — Image: Andrew Zarivny / Shutterstock

Los Angeles, despite being home to numerous very wealthy, sometimes generous people, is in a bit of a charity slump. There are a lot of reasons for why that is, but chief among them is that celebrity donors aren’t donating as much as they did before 2008. A lot of charities suffered during the financial […]

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