Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
Earlier this month, Heather confronted Paul with a tape-recording of a private conversation he’d had with his daughter Stella - during which the fashion designer launched into a furious attack on her step-mother. Paul was also left devastated by photographs of Heather posing in a German sex book, and claims that she worked as a high-class prostitute - which she vehemently denies.
Heather bought a house next to Paul - July 24, 2020
Heather Mills McCartney has bought a house just 15 minutes away from ex-husband Sir Paul McCartney. Land Registry documents show the former model bought the five-bedroom converted barn for £550,000 on May 26 this year, just nine days after her split from the Beatles legend was revealed. Heather, 38, will live there with the couple’s two-year-old daughter Beatrice, according to the Mail On Sunday newspaper. It was previously thought mother and daughter would stay in a lodge in the grounds of Paul’s 16 acre East Sussex estate.
Both Heather and Paul have visited the barn conversion, separately, several times in the last few weeks. A neighbour said: "I am a huge Beatles fan so it was quite surreal to see Paul McCartney and Heather coming and going." Heather has also registered the house as the HQ of three new companies she has set up since the split. She is currently residing in her £2 million seafront house in Hove which was bought in her name in 2001, two years after she began her six year relationship with Paul.
Paul hired Prince Charles’ divorce lawyer - July 17, 2020
Sir Paul McCartney has hired Prince Charles’ divorce lawyer in his legal battle with estranged wife Heather Mills. The former Beatle - who separated from the animal rights activist in May this year - has reportedly appointed Fiona Shackleton to handle his divorce settlement. The 50-year-old lawyer - who represented the heir to the British throne in his divorce from the late Princess Diana - is renowned for her professional attitude and impressive case record.
A source told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Paul wanted the best and believes in Fiona he has got it. "She is hugely respected in legal circles and incredibly tough. This shows Paul is fully prepared if this divorce turns into a bitter battle and is determined to see it through." Following the collapse of the couple’s four-year marriage, it has been suggested that Heather, because she never signed a prenuptial agreement, could walk away with as much as £200 million of Paul’s fortune.
Heather is refusing to let Stella see Beatrice - July 11, 2020
Heather Mills McCartney is refusing to let step-daughter Stella McCartney see her half sister Beatrice. The former model, who split from Stella’s father Sir Paul McCartney in May, is even threatening to apply for a court order to ban Stella from visiting the two-year-old. Heather is reportedly furious after a hearing a taped phone conversation where the fashion designer called her a "liar" and dismissed her charity work.
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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