Heather Mills

Profession: Gold digger
Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 1968
Associated with: Paul McCartney

This means rumours the couple had reached a settlement at the weekend were unfounded.

The drama began last week as Miss Mills put her case. She represented herself in court after dispensing with her legal team but was helped in court by a professional legal adviser.

Mr Mostyn put Sir Paul’s side of the argument and on Monday it was Miss Mills’ turn to reply to any points he made before the judge reserved his ruling.

Sir Paul was not in court on Monday. His interests would be represented by his legal team.

Mr Justice Bennett will decide on how the spoils of the marriage will be shared out and the conditions to be imposed on the warring couple.

His judgment, which will follow in a few weeks, will be binding on both former Beatle Sir Paul and Miss Mills, but could be challenged at the Court of Appeal if one side is unhappy about it.

Heather will leave Britain, says dad - Feb 13 2008
Heather Mills’ father has predicted she will leave Britain after her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney.

The divorce hearing at London’s High Court is entering the third of five scheduled days.

Heather’s dad Mark told reporters he believes she will move to France or America with the couple’s daughter Beatrice, four, when the divorce is finalised.

"She won’t stay in this country. She knows everybody hates her and she does not care," he said.

"I think she’s very low at the moment and would leap at the chance to get away from it all and take her daughter Bea with her.

"I think she’ll go abroad and then just slowly fade away into obscurity."

Mr Mills, 66, who lives in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said he fears his daughter will be "torn to shreds" by Sir Paul’s lawyers during the divorce hearing.

Forty-year-old Heather is thought to be representing herself and her father, who is now reconciled with his daughter after a period of estrangement, said he was proud of her. He said it "took guts" to represent yourself at the High Court.

This week’s hearing, which is being held in private before Mr Justice Bennett, concerns the financial aspects of the divorce.

The former Beatle has an estimated fortune of £825 million and the divorce settlement could be the biggest in British legal history.

Macca divorce deal talks to resume - Feb 12 2008
Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are set to return to court to continue thrashing out a divorce settlement.

There was no sign of an agreement having been reached on Monday after the first of a scheduled five days at the High Court.

What happened could’ve been the greatest divorce court drama in British legal history as Heather fought for her share of the former Beatle’s estimated £825 million fortune.

But the only information from Court 34 of the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London, was on the door - Private No Admittance.

Macca and Heather - who’s said to be representing herself - will be battling over money and access to their four-year-old daughter after a marriage that lasted less than four years.

Macca’s at risk of now facing the biggest payout in British legal history.

But unless one of them takes issue with the settlement being hammered out behind closed doors in the Family Division of the High Court and goes to the Court of Appeal, the figures and details may never be known to the outside world.

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Biography

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.

April 2008