Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
"It is extremely stressful to be informed by the police of a serious risk to your life and then to be followed by strange cars and people that may or may not be paparazzi."
Fiona said she had turned to the internet as the "only forum for truth".
The message said: "Heather does not deserve the hatred that the tabloid press have thrown at her. She is just one of many women getting a divorce. She has committed no crime and has been silent throughout, but what good has it done?
"Heather’s not a gold digger, liar or self-publicist for people to tear apart - she’s a human being and a mother who has feelings and cares what her daughter will read in the future and it is deeply hurtful to hear and read all the spiteful things that are said about her."
The letter also denied stories that Ms Mills-McCartney had received a settlement from Sir Paul, saying: "Heather has never ever received a settlement offer."
’Threat’ to Heather Mills-McCartney - Dec 17 2006
Police have warned Heather Mills-McCartney that they have received intelligence of a threat to her safety, it has emerged.
Officers spoke to the 38-year-old and her estranged husband, Sir Paul McCartney, 64, on Thursday about the "non-specific threat" from the Merseyside area.
Ms Mills-McCartney was also told the names of the people who had made the threat, Sussex Police said.
Officers have taken steps for an "immediate police response" to be available to her if it is needed, a force spokesman added.
According to reports, she has been given a panic alarm which allows her to contact Sussex Police headquarters directly. However, officers have said there is "no imminent risk" to the model.
Bernie Murphy, Sussex Police Force Command and Control Centre Supervisor, based in Brighton, said: "On Thursday 14 December 2020 information was received from police in the Merseyside area which indicated a non-specific threat towards Heather Mills-McCartney.
"In accordance with normal police practice, and also taking into account the Osman ruling, the threat was risk-assessed.
"Police can confirm that Mills-McCartney was spoken to by officers and was fully informed of all the information, including details of the names of individuals involved. In addition, Mills-McCartney’s estranged husband was also spoken to.
"Police are satisfied there’s no imminent risk to Mills-McCartney.
"Local officers have been fully briefed regarding the circumstances and provision has been made for an immediate police response should this be necessary."
Heather cuts legal bills - Dec 7 2006
Heather Mills has been representing herself in court in an effort to cut down on legal bills from her divorce case to Sir Paul McCartney.
Heather, 38, represented herself in the High Court last week and again on Wednesday.
She has retained the law firm Mischon de Reya in the main divorce battle and is still being advised on most aspects of the case by Anthony Julius, who handled Princess Diana’s divorce.
But in ancillary action she has been appearing in person, in front of pre-eminent family law judge Mrs Justice Baron, without the assistance of barristers but with lawyers sitting behind her.
A source close to Heather said: "In certain aspects of this whole matter Heather has dispensed with barristers and has been representing herself.
"She has been working very closely with her law firm but felt that she could manage without recourse to barristers. She is conscious of legal bills."
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Heather Mills has definitely got one hell of a story, she was born in 1968, her mother left the family home when she nine, leaving Heather to care for her siblings under the watchful eye of an abusive father. Heather ran away from home at thirteen and found herself homeless, living under Waterloo arches for four months.
She was eventually "discovered" and started modelling, it wasn’t long after that at the age of 22, that she moved to Northern Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, for a holiday and eventually ended up moving there to build a new life and become a ski instructor. Whilst out there she witnessed the outbreak of civil war and the effect it had on many of her friends. On her return to England she set up a refugee crisis centre, funded by the modelling work that she was still doing, she continued her charity work over the next two years when tragedy struck, on a visit to the UK.
In August 1993, Heather was involved in a road accident with a police motorcycle. Her injuries included crushed ribs, a punctured lung, and multiple fractures of the pelvis and the loss of her left leg below the knee. Realising her modelling career would now possibly be over, she summoned the press into her hospital room and sold her story.
Through the adjustment of returning to ’normal’ life with one leg, Heather found a practical problem that she felt she could solve. Her residual limb, or stump as she prefers to call it, was fitted with an artificial limb. But due to the nature of the wound changing in shape and size, the prosthetic leg had to be continually replaced, whilst the old leg would be discarded. Heather realised that if the redundant prosthesis would never find another use, there must be literally thousands out there just waiting for a new home. With her experiences in the former Yugoslavia, Heather knew that these redundant limbs would be more than welcome in areas such as the Former Yugoslavia.
Heather instigated a nation-wide appeal for the donation of unwanted prostheses, and then employed the services of the inmates at Brixton prison to dismantle the limbs and make them ready for transport. October 1994, just a year after her accident, the first convoy of artificial limbs and medical equipment left for Zargreb. Arriving at the Institute of Prosthetics in Zargreb the limbs were now ready to be fitted. Over 22,000 amputees and victims of land-mine explosions have been helped since the first Convoy left the U.K.
It was not long after that at the young age of 25 that Heather wrote her biography, whilst most 25 year olds could hardly fill a chapter, Heather had a real story to tell. ’Out on a Limb’ landed straight onto The Times’ best-seller list as well as appearing in the 1997 Reader’s Digest Best non-fiction compilation. The proceeds from the book go to raising money for child amputee war victim’s world-wide (although the most publicised are in the Former Yugoslavia). All Heather’s charity work has funded from her own pocket.
Heather has been given many accolades and awards for her work for charity. Former Prime Minister John Major presented her with the Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement; The Times presented her with their Human Achievement Award, and the British Chamber of Commerce not only named her Outstanding Young Person of the Year, but also named an award after her - the Heather Mills Award. If this was not enough, in 1996 she received a nomination for The Nobel Prize and has since received the 1999 "People of the Year Award", The "Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000 Award", The "Pantene Spirit of Beauty Award" and the "Woman of the Year" by the Blue Drop Group in Sicily as well as lots more.
Heather collected the "REDBROOK Mother & Shakers Award", presented by Hillary Clinton, and she received the Victory Award hosted by the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.
If that was not enough, Heather has also done a lot of TV work presenting for programmes such as That’s Esther.
In her personal life, she found temporary happiness with ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. Despite some rather obvious objections from Paul’s daughter Stella, the couple married in 2002 and had a daughter together.
In 2006 both Paul and Heather made a joint statement confirming their separation, after Paul McCartney filed for divorce, citing ‘unreasonable behaviour’. What has followed has been a media storm, with Heather at the heart of the controversy.
The main allegations is that she merely married Sir Paul for his money and fame, with British papers suggesting that this could be the biggest divorce settlement ever witnessed. Heather has always denied the allegation of being a ‘gold digger’, claiming that the separation and process of divorce is ‘worse than losing my leg’.
Alongside her threat to sue national papers over ‘false, damaging and immensely upsetting’ reports about the divorce, it has also been reported that Heather has received death threats since splitting with her husband.
In January 2003, a settlement was announced between the two parties, believed to amount to £32 million, plus a gagging order.
November 2007