Posted on 04/01/2008 1:45:17 PM PDT by blam
Heather Mills 'may return to court for new Paul McCartney fight'
By Emma Henry
Last Updated: 3:29pm BST 01/04/2008
Heather Mills wants secret documents exposing Sir Paul McCartney's alleged behaviour during their marriage published and may return to court to make it happen, her lawyer has said.
In an interview with the Evening Standard, David Rosen said Miss Mills wants to put the record straight over claims that she is a gold-digger who was only interested in the former Beatle's £400 million fortune.
Heather Mills was described by Mr Justice Bennett as ‘her own worst enemy’
He said his client is also frustrated that the full judgment of the couple's divorce case - in which the judge accused her of "make belief", inconsistency and inaccuracy - was published while the full court transcripts were held back.
Mr Justice Bennett said she was a "less than impressive witness" during the six-day hearing last month who "wholly exaggerated" the extent of her wealth before she met her now ex-husband.
Miss Mills is now considering launching a new legal battle to have all the details made public, which she believes will allow people to make up their own minds, Mr Rosen said.
Last weeks, friends of the former model said she had hired a new team of forensic accountants to try to prove that her ex-husband Paul McCartney is worth double the £400 million he claimed in their divorce struggle.
According to leaked press reports during the lengthy divorce battle, Miss Mills had accused Sir Paul of being violent towards her, but Mr Justice Bennett said he did not take this allegation into account when he released his judgment, which awarded her £24.3 million.
At the time the allegations were made, Sir Paul said he would be "defending these allegations vigorously and appropriately" in the divorce hearing.
Mr Rosen said: "The conduct was not relevant and didn't factor in the judgment. But that doesn't mean to say it is not relevant at all to her and what people may think of her.
"She just wants the public to have the full facts of the case. She wants people to know that she was a good mother and a good wife."
In the interview, Mr Rosen also claimed that Miss Mills was prepared to take only £20m, but that Sir Paul refused to settle out-of-court.
He also claimed his client had offered to sign a pre-nuptial agreement, but Sir Paul had not been keen, and that she was now living in fear of "wackos" after the details of her private life were revealed.
Poor thing. She is probably still irritated from the chafing on her stump that occured during Dancing With The Stars.
Good grief honey. You dug. You hit gold. You escaped with gold.
Quit while you’re ahead....
Expecting Paul to give an arm AND a leg.
Last weeks, friends of the former model said she had hired a new team of forensic accountants to try to prove that her ex-husband Paul McCartney is worth double the £400 million he claimed in their divorce struggle.
Consider the record straightened.
Nice work, Paul. You managed to marry a woman who makes Yoko Ono look like Melanie Wilkes.
She seems to be seeking defamation more than anything else.
I don’t think the court should allow her to destroy McCarney’s image.
She has gotten a lot of money, more than anyone needs to live on for the rest of their life.
The court needs to step in and shut this ass up.
She got the money she wanted. She got the divorce she wanted. End of fricken storry.
Why should she quit while she’s ahead? She’s a shameless golddigger with a pot-full-of-gold in hand... and no risk of losing that. When you’re a shameless b*, why not go for more?
Just...ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Paul has Loco Uno.
This case continues to have legs
Yeah. But I don't think she has a leg to stand on.
Well, it’s a safe bet Paul won’t EVER think about getting married again. I wouldn’t!
LOL! post of the day!
She should get a job waiting tables at IHOP.
You can't get a judge to over turn public perception of the obvious!
Not without a prenup anyway!
She looks like the Bride of McManiac in this picture.
Amazing how this woman managed to squander the public sympathy that comes from being an amputee.
(((Well, it’s a safe bet Paul won’t EVER think about getting married again. I wouldn’t!)))
He had a great marriage for thirty years, and four years of a lousy one. He probably will consider it. I think he married this woman because she resembles Linda and he is still looking for her.
Of course, if he’d married me when I was in the seventh grade (1969)like I wanted him to he wouldn’t be having this problem now!
(((Well, it’s a safe bet Paul won’t EVER think about getting married again. I wouldn’t!)))
He had a great marriage for thirty years, and four years of a lousy one. He probably will consider it. I think he married this woman because she resembles Linda and he is still looking for her.
Of course, if he’d married me when I was in the seventh grade (1969)like I wanted him to he wouldn’t be having this problem now!
Dats a good one!
Yoko - I mean, Heather Mills, was described by Mr Justice Bennett as ‘her own worst enemy’...
That bears repeating....
People seem to forget that much of Paul’s fortune came from Linda. She was heiress to the Eastman-Kodak fortune, and she had a hugely successful business in the vegetarian frozen food market. It is said that she was worth $500 million when she died.
I think Heather got more than she deserved.
Not to worry ... Paul has taken to carrying a beaver everywhere he goes.
I bet he’d give up all his money to have Linda back.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I hope her lawyers bill an exhorbitant amount of hours to her for this. She’ll soon see how fast that 24 Million Pounds can dwindle down when lawyers are involved with anything.
I’ve seen estimates that put Paul’s worth at $1.2 billion.
Yee-gads! This “Poor Excuse for a Women” should be ashamed of herself. Money Grubbing Greed is UGLY!
I wonder why she is keeping this up? Who keeps legging her on?
But...but, everybody hates her, sniff, sniff. They should hate Paul instead.
Paul should be punished accordingly for having subjected us (and the rest of the world) to his solo albums!
Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing hers and McCartney’s name? Who cares about their divorce anyway? For heavnen’s sakes...when is enough $$$ enough for her anyway? Take it out of the public eye. It’s none of our business and I don’t care if she gets a 1$ or a million. It’s NOT NEWS.
Well she is a bit unstable.
“...she had a hugely successful business in the vegetarian frozen food market.”
Wow! She really made that kind of money from stuff that tastes that bad?
That’s funny , I HOP , still lol !!!
Folks may have had some sympathy for her before she got her millions, but I don’t think they’re going to give a rat’s rear end whether or not she gets any more.
LOL! Too true!
Linda wasn’t heiress to Eastman-Kodak. That’s an old rumor, but not true.
False
and she had a hugely successful business in the vegetarian frozen food market.
True.
Probably because that is completely untrue.
She was heiress to the Eastman-Kodak fortune
The Eastman-Kodak corporate empire was founded in New York in the 1880s by George Eastman, who was born in upstate New York in the 1850s.
Linda McCartney's father was Lee Eastman, whose birth name was Leo Epstein until he changed it. His parents were Jewish refugees from the Russian Revolution.
Lee Eastman was a NYC entertainment lawyer.
she had a hugely successful business in the vegetarian frozen food market. It is said that she was worth $500 million when she died.
Her line of frozen vegetarian foods was one of several hundred product lines of the HAIN Group. She received a percentage of royalties from the sale of foods marketed under her name.
Since HAIN has a market capitalization of $1.22B and sales of $236MM it seems highly unlikely that she would have had $500MM unless she owned 40% or more of the stock - and no McCartney is listed as owning anywhere near that amount. Most likely she owned tens of thousands of shares and received several million in royalties each year. For the seven years she was alive and marketing food, she probably accumulated $20-30M. A very nice amount of money - but a drop in the bucket compared to her husband's Beatles money.
Nope, Paul accounted for about 95% of the couple's wealth.
"However, her vegetarian food business alone was last estimated to be worth $60m (�38m) a year."
Don't ask me what "worth a year" means.
That maniacal monoped is starting to get real boring!
OK, OK...I get it. I was wrong about Linda being an heiress to the Eastman-Kodak fortune. So sue me!
I would like her to drive 100 mph through a tunnel in Paris.
If there is one thing journalists get confused about in financial reporting it is the difference between revenues and net income.
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