Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
Last week, it was reported the pair had been staying apart, with the singer dividing his time between his country home and London, and Heather remaining at the couple’s house in Hove, near Brighton. A friend told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Heather has always been tough on Paul, basically walking all over him. Paul has put up with it because he’s a kind, gentle human being. "But something just snapped with Paul. He’s had enough of being treated like a doormat. He’s beaten up emotionally and just needed time out. So he just walked out."
Friends have denied claims the couple are having crisis talks. One insider is quoted by the News of the World newspaper as saying: "It’s very frosty. There hasn’t been any contact and they haven’t spoken for more than two weeks. "At the moment they are still living separate lives." McCartney was thought to be rejoining Heather when he flew back to the UK from France at the weekend (13.05.06) - but left by helicopter again a few hours later. A source told The People newspaper: "Who knows where he went today? There certainly didn’t appear to be much talking done."
Paul McCartney has gone on holiday alone - May 12, 2020
Sir Paul McCartney has gone on holiday alone - further fuelling speculation that his marriage is in trouble. The Beatles legend - who is married to model and animal rights activist Heather Mills - was spotted in the South of France taking a walk and relaxing with a drink on his own.
Yesterday (11.05.06) onlookers described the 63-year-old musician as looking "lost in his own thoughts" when he left his five-star hotel on the border of France and Monaco. McCartney’s solo holiday comes just 10 days after allegations of a bust-up with 37-year-old Mills, which reportedly resulted in the couple "cooling off" in separate homes, located 50 miles apart. Friends of the couple are claiming the time the two have spent apart is an indication there are experiencing marital problems.
A source told the Daily Mail newspaper: "They have been rowing constantly recently. "She is angry that he gets so much adulation from fans and is one of the most famous people on the planet, while she feels she should get just as much respect for being a model and a campaigner."
Heather has denied rumours of a marriage crisis - May 8, 2020
Sir Paul McCartney’s wife Heather has denied rumours of a marriage crisis. The former model has furiously dismissed reports she and the Beatles legend were living separately.
She told The Sun newspaper: "It’s hilarious. Paul and I are very much together." The couple are reported to have spent five days apart after a heated row argument. One friend said: "Heather and Paul have had a couple of disagreements when she has felt people only see her as the wife of a Beatle." Heather, 38, insists Paul, 63, was recording in London while she recovered from a leg operation at home in Hove, East Sussex.
Brave Heather underwent painful surgery to reattach muscle tissue on her part-amputated left leg three weeks ago and she has decided to "keep undercover" until she can walk properly again. The couple wed in 2002 and have a two-year-old daughter Beatrice. Last week, it emerged that Heather plans to return to the catwalk and has joined Zone, the fashion and VIP division of MOT models.
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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