Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
The hand over of baby Beatrice - Aug 16, 2020
Sir Paul McCartney has banned estranged wife Heather Mills from collecting daughter Beatrice from his home. Instead, the former model was forced to travel to neutral territory and meet the two-year-old tot at the Flackley Ash Hotel, just 300 yards from Paul’s East Sussex home. The Beatles legend had been taking care of Beatrice for the past week and sent his daughter to the hotel accompanied by a nanny.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Paul made it very clear he didn’t want her at the main house for the handover. Heather wasn’t angry or upset. She just shrugged her shoulders and said, ’If he wants to play it that way, then let him.’ "She thinks the whole matter could be handled a lot more discreetly for Bea’s sake. But she didn’t want a big row, so she let him have his own way." The estranged couple then both flew separately to the US from Heathrow airport yesterday (15.08.06).
Once Heather was reunited with her daughter, the pair flew to Heathrow in a navy blue Sikorsky 76A helicopter and boarded the 3pm flight to Los Angeles. Paul flew to New York an hour later. The bill for Heather’s two-hour helicopter ride was £4,770.
Meanwhile, Heather - who has hired Anthony Julius, the late Princess Diana’s divorce lawyer - is set to submit her counter claim this week and it is believed her revelations about their four-year marriage will stun the world.
Lady Heather Mills McCartney was humiliated, after police were called when she tried to gain entry to her former home - Aug 8, 2020
Heather arrived with daughter Beatrice for a scheduled visit to the mansion that she used to share with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney, to find the locks had been changed.
Sir Paul was not at home, and because the gate was locked Heather’s security guard attempted to climb over the wall to let her in.
But Sir Paul’s security team had not been informed of the visit and called the police.
A furious, but ashamed Heather drove her car around the corner so that her two-year-old daughter Beatrice would not be upset by the police sirens.
Four officers in a police car and a police van arrived on the scene within minutes.
Heather spoke to police and after several frenzied phone calls the matter was resolved.
A source told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “She was horrified to find the gate lock changed. It was a huge mix-up. But it was all sorted out amicably."
A police spokesperson said: “We were called after a guard reported intruders. No arrests were made.”
Heather spent the night at the house and will leave Beatrice behind for a pre-arranged visit with her father, who is due to return today.
Lady Heather Mills McCartney will lose her title - Aug 2, 2020
Lady Heather Mills McCartney is set to lose her title when she divorces Sir Paul McCartney. The animal rights activist received the prestigious title after marrying the former Beatle - who was knighted for his achievements in music in 1997. In accordance with British law, Heather, 38, would still be allowed to use the title if she keeps her husband’s surname.
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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