Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
Heather to move near Paul? - July 5 2007
Heather Mills is reportedly planning to buy a new house near her estranged husband, Sir Paul McCartney.
The model, 39, who has a three-year-old daughter Beatrice with the former Beatle, is said to be househunting near Macca’s pad in Peasmarsh, East Sussex.
A pal told The Daily Mirror: "Six months ago, this would have been inconceivable. But they think it will be best for Bea to have both parents close in case she needs them."
The blonde, who recently starred in US show Dancing With The Stars, is planning to sell her £2 million Art Deco beachfront house in Hove, so Beatrice can be nearer her dad.
Relationships between the pair have thawed in recent weeks - and they were seen "laughing and joking" together during a recent meeting to celebrate the musician’s 65th birthday.
Paul has said he wants to keep things civil for the sake of their daughter.
He said: "I’m not a great grudge-holder. It’s just unfortunate it didn’t work out."
Trainer ’tried to protect Heather’ - July 3 2007
The personal trainer of Heather Mills has told a court how he sought to protect her after she was assaulted by a photographer.
Benjamin Amigoni, 23, witnessed photographer Jay Kaycappa’s alleged assault on the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney in a subway, Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard today.
Minutes before the incident he said he observed "a gentleman hovering around photographing" Heather, who was on a bike ride along Brighton seafront with friends.
Describing Kaycappa’s alleged assault, he told prosecutor Dale Sullivan: "He moved in behind her, hand on the shoulder, stepped back and moved her around."
He said Heather telephoned him seconds before the incident, as he entered the subway. Mr Amigoni said: "It was Heather on the phone saying ’he’s here, he’s here’."
He said Kaycappa followed the former model as she left the subway on her bike, accompanied by her two male American friends.
Mr Amigoni said: "The gentleman was behind me, I was swerving left to right to block his way. I engaged in conversation with him at that point.
"I remember him saying ’all this for an effing photo, I’ve never run so much in my life’.
"I said to him ’you’ve got your photo, are you going to leave’."
Mr Amigoni said he was "100% sure" of his account of events and that he had not discussed the court case with his boss, when cross-examined by Kaycappa’s defence lawyer Anya Lewis.
Father-of-three Kaycappa denies two charges of assaulting Ms Mills-McCartney and her American friend Mark Payne the following evening.
Heather assault trial resumes - July 3 2007
The trial of a photographer accused of assaulting Heather Mills resumes today.
Freelance photographer Jay Kaycappa allegedly grabbed Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife’s right shoulder and swung her round to face him in order to take her photograph.
The 39-year-old former model and anti-landmine campaigner said she felt like a "trapped animal", Brighton Magistrates Court heard last month.
She told the court she was enjoying a bike ride along Brighton seafront with three friends when she realised she was being observed by photographers on July 5 last year.
Heather said she wheeled her bike into a subway to escape the paparazzi and panicked when she spotted a photographer at the tunnel’s exit.
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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