Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
Heather slams 'stingy' rich - Nov 22 2007
Heather Mills McCartney has claimed she is being treated worse than a paedophile and murderer by the media.
She also insisted the wealthy elite are either snobs or stingy but maintained it was necessary to move in their circles to bring about change.
The estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney was speaking in Dublin after being named an honorary patron of the Trinity University Philosophical Society.
While talking about her recent high-profile conversion to veganism, the prolific campaigner launched an outspoken broadside at society's rich and powerful.
"Sadly, you have to mix at a certain level of people to raise the level of funds you need to bring about the greater good," she said.
"Because people are very snobby - these people who have lots of money, they're either snobby or they're stingy.
"If you have lots of money you have to be stingy because why would you that amount of money."
She added: "But you have to be able earn a certain living and be able to mix in that arena to influence those people and kind of drag that out of them to actually make a change and make them realise that's what's really exciting about life."
Heather plans global campaign - Nov 20 2007
Heather Mills has said she plans to go global with her new vegan campaign.
"There’s a lot more to be done in Britain but there’s a lot to be done in the world, so obviously I will be campaigning in America and any country that will have me that Hwants to be made aware of certain things that I’m not the scientist of but have looked at the 100 per cent proof," she explained in an interview with Vanessa Feltz on radio station BBC London 94.9.
But the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney has no plans to quit Britain for good.
"I can’t disappear because I like to keep my daughter near her father and that’s why I’ve put up with all this and stayed here, because she always comes first," she said.
Heather has not ruled out the possibility of finding love again.
She told Feltz: "Oh, who knows. I’m so involved with my campaigning at the moment and so involved with my daughter and a number of other issues that it would take a pretty incredible guy to distract my attention for more than two minutes."
Heather ends radio interview - Nov 19 2007
Heather Mills, the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney, walked out of an interview with radio DJ Nick Ferrari.
Appearing on his LBC 97.3FM show today (Monday), she objected to a question about her split from lawyers Mishcon de Reya.
Heather recently parted company with the legal firm which was representing her in divorce proceedings.
The legal team was said to have advised the former model not to go ahead with her recent series of TV interviews, including a highly emotional appearance on GMTV, in which she discussed her divorce battle and daughter Beatrice.
It has also been reported that Heather could not afford their services and plans to represent herself in court.
Mills told Ferrari that the TV interviews had been a huge success.
"They were the best thing that I did because before it was death threats. Now they’ve disappeared and I’ve had a huge, huge following from the public to get involved with our campaigns - we had over 20,000 people in the first two weeks," she said.
Ferrari then asked: "Is it correct that your divorce lawyers let you go after your appearances on television?"
"I let my lawyers go," she replied.
"Mischon de Reya said they let you go," Ferrari went on, but Heather insisted: "Well, it’s not true."
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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