Heather Mills Wins Record Divorce Settlement From Sir Paul McCartney, Finds Something To Rant About Anyway
You’ve heard of people who aren’t happy unless they are unhappy? I seriously think Heather Mills is one of those people. Despite getting almost $50M in her divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney, Mucca is still ranting away, because that’s what she does best.
Here’s Heather on Sir Paul’s lawyer:
She said: “Fiona Shackleton has very sadly handled this case in the worst manner you could ever imagine. She has called me many, many names before meeting me when I was in a wheelchair.”
On Sir Paul’s financial dealings concerning their daughter, Beatrice:
“Beatrice gets £35,000 [$70,000] a year. She is meant to travel B-class when her father travels A-class.
“Paul has always wanted Beatrice to go to a state school. He insisted that he wanted us to move to that area [East Sussex] - £35,000 includes. £17,000 for school fees.”
“He tried to get our daughter with joint residency, even though we had gone 50-50. In that way he has got everything he wanted, but that’s what powerful people get.”
On the judge in the case:
[T]he former model will appeal against Mr Justice Bennett’s plans to release [the settlement details] in full at a further hearing tomorrow. […]
“He also said that Paul is only worth £400 million. Everyone knows that he has been worth £800 million for the last 15 years.
“Paul has always wanted it public because he wants to look like generous Sir Paul.”
On how she and her daughter have been treated:
“I was locked out of every home. I really hope now that me and my daughter can have a life and not be followed every day. Apart from one television thing I have stayed quiet for 21 months. If the judgment had been kept private I would not be out here speaking.”
And on Macca himself:
Asked if she thought Sir Paul had been “cruel”, she said: “I can’t say that for the sake of my daughter but my sister does.”
Where to start? First of all, Heather certainly has not been quiet for 21 months. I don’t think she’s ever been quiet. If I were Sir Paul, I would have given her more money, all right…I’d have taken a wad of pound notes and shoved them in her mouth just to shut her up for a few minutes. No wonder he divorced her…if you listened to her “media tour” a few months ago, where she went on TV talk shows all across the UK and US, you heard her annoying bleating about how maligned she is and how she knows secrets that she’s willing to spill.
Personally, I don’t think little Beatrice is going to be traveling coach any time soon. If my childhood experience with divorce is anything (and my parents were certainly not rich), in my opinion Paul will certainly be shelling out of his own pocket for his daughter, above and beyond the divorce decree. I personally believe he wants to make sure that his daughter gets the money, and it is put to use for her needs, not her mother’s.
Her passive-aggressive answer to whether she thinks Sir Paul was cruel was telling, as she wanted it to be. “Oh, I can’t answer that, because I love and respect my daughter too much. But my sister believes he was, and since I love and respect my sister, you can figure it out for yourselves.” Poor Beatrice. To grow up with such a mother.
And spare me the comments about how cruel his lawyer was to her before meeting Heather in a wheelchair. Gag gag gag…always pulling out the poor “I’m handicapped” schtick. I got news for you, Mucca…first, she’s a lawyer, and lawyers aren’t generally the warm, fuzzy type. It’s their job. And second, even people in wheelchairs can be jerks. Not everybody with a physical handicap is a wonderful human being, and you are a perfect illustration of that.
I certainly hope Macca has learned a lesson from all this. She came along at a time when he was grieving for his first wife, sad and lonely and depressed, and she offered him a way up out of the black hole he’d created for himself…minus that annoying baggage known as a prenup, however. Along the way, however, the dream turned into a nightmare, and he does have to shoulder some of the responsibility. He made a lot of mistakes. I’m not saying he’s an angel, and nobody truly knows another person until you’ve spent intimate, quality time with them. But it does appear that Mucca took advantage of him, not the other way around.
Plus, Sir Paul has maintained a dignified silence throughout this whole matter. His words yesterday upon leaving court?
Sir Paul left the court quickly, saying simply “thank-you” as he waved to the cameras.
So here’s my question: Wonder how much of her court winnings she will give to charity, as she promised she would do:
A representative for Mills said to ContactMusic: “Most of the money Heather has ever received goes towards supporting her various charities, the main being Adopt-A-Minefield.
“I cannot comment on what the settlement might be, except that I am certain she wants the vast majority of it to be spent on clearing landmines.
“The way she sees it is that there is no point the money sitting in a bank account gathering dust, the money has to be working.
“The more acres of minefield she can clear, the happier she will be.”
Wonder if she’s happy yet?
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A good portion of this comes back to Paul’s own ego. When he was thinking of marrying her, everyone from his legal team to his financial advisors to his family to random strangers on the street told him to get a prenup, but oh NO! He’s Paul McCartney! He couldn’t possibly have a marriage fail! So I put at least some of the blame for the mess that the divorce became on Paul’s refusal to take very simple and basic legal steps against all advice.
That being said, I’m no fan of Heather Mills. Her “Oh, poor me, I don’t have a leg and I do charity work!” thing is annoying as hell. Yes, Heather, you’re missing a leg. What does it have to do with your divorce? I must admit, I’m stumped! (Pun intended, and yes, I stole the joke from a comedian I saw on television just last night.)
Heather Mills now has fifty million dollars, but she thinks her daughter has to go second class? Why? Isn’t fifty million dollars enough to make up the difference between first class and second class? Or is that money all for Heather and none of it for Beatrice? What gives?
I never understood what Paul saw in this woman, and I still don’t. If she fell off the face of the planet, I’m sure that some people would miss her, but the environment would improve because there would be so much less HOT AIR.
And Paul, next time, listen to your advisors and GET THE PRENUP!
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