Sir Paul McCartney
- Profession: Musician
- Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 2020
- Assiociated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney
Stella, 34, and her publisher husband Alasdhair Willis already have a 17-month-old son Miller. The fashion designer knew her good news would cheer her father up after he was left devastated by claims that Heather worked as a high-class prostitute - allegations she denies - and posed in a German sex book. The source added: "She couldn’t wait to tell her dad. After everything he’s been through recently, she knew it would really cheer him up. She’s been talking to him a lot since his marriage broke down - they’ve grown closer than ever. "Paul told her he is smiling again because of the baby." The new baby will be Paul’s fourth grandchild - his daughter Mary also has two sons, Arthur, seven and Elliot, three. Stella’s representatives have so far refused to comment on the alleged pregnancy.
Heather Mills rejected a £30 million offer - July 31, 2020
Sir Paul McCartney has issued formal divorce proceedings after his estranged wife Heather Mills rejected a £30 million offer. In a petition to the courts, the former Beatle has blamed the split on Heather’s "unreasonable behaviour" claiming she was "argumentative" and "rude to staff".
Paul has previously dismissed suggestions Heather, 38, married him for his money, but he is now furious his offer for a quick, clean break was rejected. A source told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Paul is a reasonable guy who doesn’t like confrontation. "In his eyes, they agreed they wanted to make the divorce quick and painless and a settlement was virtually in place - but then Heather started getting unreasonable because she wanted more money. "It appears she wants as much as she can and she has left her self open to suggestions that she is a ’gold digger’."
Paul has hired a team of top divorce lawyers, including Fiona Shackleton who represented Prince Charles in his divorce from the late Princess Diana, to assist him in his legal fight. It is understood Heather - who some commentators are suggesting could be entitled to as much as £200 million - plans to file counter-claims in America and Britain. Reports suggest she claims Paul became "boring" after their wedding, preferring to stay in Sussex while she enjoyed socialising in London.
A source said: "Heather feels like he wasn’t the man she married. She is prepared to throw everything at Paul." The breakdown in relations between the pair - who have a two-year-old daughter Beatrice together - was emphasised this weekend when Paul was seen for the first time without his wedding ring.
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.
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At the age of 15 he met John Lennon. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they formed the most successful group in the history of music--the Beatles.
Since the Beatles, Paul has released 21 albums and staged three world tours, while evolving into classical composition, film-making and actively campaigning for ecology and animal rights After the Beatles split up in 1970, Paul embarked on a solo career before forming the group Wings with his wife, American Linda McCartney, which had some success but never to the scale of the Beatles, That has never yet again been seen, (even now)
His solo period during the eighties culminated with charity performances at Live Aid and for The Prince of Wales Trust, leading him to get back on the road again. Since 1990, Paul McCartney has traveled over 800,000 miles in concert through 22 countries, setting, along the way, the Guinness world record for the largest stadium crowd in the history of rock and roll--184,000 in Rio de Janeiro. During the same time, he also established the "MTV Unplugged" vogue and then performed his acoustic show in clubs and pubs around Europe.
In 1991, Paul staged the performance of his first classical work, "The Liverpool Oratorio", which has since been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide. In 1995--the 30th anniversary of his most acclaimed song, "Yesterday"-- Paul’s second classical work, "A Leaf," was performed at a benefit concert he organized for the Royal College of Music at St. James Palace. Paul composed a major orchestral work, commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of EMI Records.
In recognition of his work for all music, Paul was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the U.K.’s highest musical honour. Aside from his music, Paul McCartney campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He and his wife Linda are the new patrons of the British Vegetarian Society. He is also the chief patron of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, a new school similar to New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, which will open in his hometown in 1996. Paul has also developed his interest in film-making. His first production, "Daumier’s Law," won the top prize in 1992 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
His latest short feature, "Grateful Dead, A Photofilm," will be entered in the London Film Festival at the invitation of the British Film Institute. He was also knighted by the Queen and made a ’Sir’ Paul and Linda had three children between them as well as Linda daughter from a previous marriage, which Paul adopted as his own. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, she was only 56.
All of their children are a success in their own right Stella McCartney is head designer at Gucci after a very successful stint as head designer for Chloe and daughter Mary is a successful photographer just as her mother Linda was before her.
Three years after the death of his first wife Paul met Heather Mills at a charity event where Mills was raising financial assistance for the Heather Mills Trust, a foundation providing artificial limbs to war victims across the globe. Mills, a former swimsuit model, lost her left leg below the knee in 1993 after being hit by a police motorcyclist.
October 2007