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Heather Mills

Profession: Gold digger
Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
Associated with: Paul McCartney

Heather Mills’s divorce deal - after four years of marriage - would easily eclipse the £48 million paid by insurance magnate John Charman to his former wife Beverley, making the largest in British legal history.

The 39-year-old former model could receive a lump sum of £15 million, according to The Daily Mail, as well as an annual payment of about £3.5 million every year until the couple’s daughter Beatrice reaches 18.

The paper says: "The divorce settlement - which would be the largest in British legal history - will include a clause ensuring that neither party ever speaks publicly about what led to the breakdown of their marriage."

It was also reported that Heather would not be given any of her former husband’s properties and that he would pick up the childcare costs for their daughter.

She lives on the seafront in an exclusive part of Hove, East Sussex. Sir Paul has a country estate in nearby Peasmarsh and property in London.

Sources for the estranged couple refused to comment on the progress of their divorce but did confirm that the financial details of a settlement have been agreed, the paper added, although the case remains listed for a five-day hearing before a family High Court judge next February.

Heather alluded to her divorcee status recently by saying she was "soon to be just Mills".

Photographer guilty of assaulting Heather - 12 July 2020
A photographer has been found guilty of assaulting Heather Mills-McCartney in a subway as he tried to take her picture.

Jay Kaycappa, 32, grabbed the estranged wife of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney by her right shoulder in order to swing her round and take her photograph, the court heard.

Brighton Magistrates Court heard during a three-day trial that the incident took place in a subway in the seaside resort on July 5 last year.

Father-of-three Kaycappa, of The Hurdles, Fareham, Hampshire, was also convicted of assaulting Ms Mills-McCartney’s friend Mark Payne the following evening.

The freelance photographer shook his head in the dock after magistrates convicted him of both assault charges.

Ms Mills-McCartney was not in court to hear the verdicts.

Sentencing was adjourned to August 16 for reports to be prepared but Kaycappa was warned by Ms Smith that sentencing options would include custody.

He was freed on unconditional bail but made no comment as he left court via a side entrance.

’4-second assault’ on Heather - July 6 2007
A photographer took just four seconds to assault the estranged wife of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, a court has heard.

Jay Kaycappa is accused of grabbing Heather Mills-McCartney by her right shoulder in order to swing her round and take her photograph.

The alleged incident took place in a subway on Brighton seafront on July 5 last year.

Prosecutor Dale Sullivan suggested that Kaycappa and another photographer had hunted Heather "like a pack of animals".

He said that the four-second gap in the series of photographs Kaycappa took of his alleged victim had a very simple explanation.

Mr Sullivan said: "It would be impossible to take photographs while you were grabbing this lady’s shoulder and hauling her round".

Kaycappa denies the charge.

Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that he had run along the beach in pursuit of Heather and her three friends, who were cycling along the seafront.

During a series of heated exchanges between himself and the prosecutor, Kaycappa likened his alleged victim to the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.

The case was adjourned to next Wednesday, July 11, at 2pm at Brighton Magistrates’ Court.

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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.

November 2007