Heather Mills

[BigC]

hear for their first married Christmas he bought her a plane. For her other leg he bought a razor.

Hung around just to hear andys reply, Excellent wit as always...

Interesting pre nuptial info, maybe andy's tried to pull this one before to protect his dosh! LOL
BigC

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOgjne9oLFU

 

[andywg]

I heard on the radio about pre-nups once and did a little research on them. Rather than me having loads of money (if I did I wouldn't be happy at being able to set up two new tanks for frogfish at a cost of under £25) it is the sad part of my mind which finds law interesting, even that part of law which will never apply in my private or public life.

/happily married

 

[stang1]

and he should have had her sign a pre- nuptial agreement.

It wouldn't matter if he had, pre-nuptials are somewhat incompatible with English law and as such cannot be relied upon in an English Court.

The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 means that nothing you put in a contract can override the court’s discretion to vary the provisions in a pre-nuptial agreement. This can mean that a pre-nuptial agreement is unenforceable as the Court has the ultimate power to decide what is fair in divorce proceedings. In particular, a pre-nup goes against the idea that marriage is for life as it contemplates divorce.

So while pre-nups are a good idea in theory, in England and Wales (I'm not sure of the Scottish or Northern Irish law on this) in practice they are worth little more than the paper they are written on.


I hear for their first married Christmas he bought her a plane. For her other leg he bought a razor.

Thanks Andy for brightening a dull day!

 

[cheesy feet]

Heh, i've never really been bothered to look into it...But she is annoying when every morning you wake up to here her whining, and putting on the water works.She said yesterday, "What the judge has also said is that Paul is only worth UKP400 million. Everyone knows that he has been worth UKP800 million for the past 15 years."
It seems really pathetic...

 

[rossyt99]

What's the difference between H.Mills and 'Northern Rock'??


....One is worth around £25m, likes to take the savings off old people and is on its last leg.

The other is a building society.


Bump Bump! (A mate told me that one)

 

[WILDER]

Don't care for either of them to be honest.
But making him look like a saint and slating her all the time is typical of the press, don't they kick you when your'e down.
I'm ashamed of the british press.

 

[andywg]

Don't care for either of them to be honest.
But making him look like a saint and slating her all the time is typical of the press, don't they kick you when your'e down.
I'm ashamed of the british press.

Not really, she put herself there. Where were the rants from Sir Paul to the media? There were none. Where were the exaggerated claims from Sir Paul to the media? There were none. He kept himself out of any sort of "trial by media". When she realised that she was no match for a QC and Junior Counsel she went to the media. As one would expect, she was cut down to size.

The media only tend to really bite the people that go to them to try and help them.

Let's not forget that Ms Mills received professional advice from her solicitors (Mishcon de Reya) not to approach the media and certainly not to go moaning to them. Having read the judgement in the case (why would a tee total person demand tens of thousands of pounds for wine?), it would appear that she was either a conniving gold digger, or sadly deluded.

 

[WILDER]

Very strong willed woman that gets her into trouble, at least she wasnt a doormat.
I quite admired her for taking on the best lawyers money can buy, couldnt of been easy.
Though I don't agree throwing water over them. lol
As for gold digger I do agree it looks that way, don't know what she ever saw in an aging rock star.


Divorce is never easy must be worse when you are in the limelight.
I do think heather needs to act her age and let the bitterness go before it distroys her even further.

 

[andywg]

Very strong willed woman that gets her into trouble, at least she wasnt a doormat.

She was, instead, a fruitbat.

I quite admired her for taking on the best lawyers money can buy, couldnt of been easy.

I don't because she originally had very good lawyers in Mishcons (who would have done a lot of prep work for her by the time they parted ways, so it isn't like she did the whole thing on her own). The reason she took on Sir Paul's lawyers on her own is because her own lawyers dumped her as she would not listen to their advice (and I understand that Mishcons are still yet to be paid, as an aside)

Devorce is never easy must be worse when you are in the limelight.

But it didn't have to be anywhere near so in the limelight. If she hadn't gone to the media first, then the media wouldn't have been so interested in her. The media is not a kind beast, while it can help you, it can also bite you. Knowing when to go and when to avoid is an art. If you ignore professional (and expensive) advice on it, then you only have yourself to blame.

 

[CFC]

Any normal bloke would have ended up losing everything but the shirt off his back in a divorce where a child is involved so why should Mccartney have got away with only losing a very small part of his huge fortune? I don't agree with the way men get robbed by the courts in divorce settlements but if it happens to us normal folk with just one house and a meagre salary then he should have had to hand over at least half his money and properties to her too.

She might have been a whinging gold digger but he shouldnt have been such a tight fisted old sod either, if he had offered a reasonable pay out instead of trying to get out of paying anything it wouldnt have been in the press for longer than a couple of days.

 

[Arfie]

He was hardly tight fisted, according to reports he had offered her £15m thats FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS!!! Granted it's a small proportion of his wealth, but considerably more than she had earned herself in her entire career, or more than she would have earned prior to marrying him.

Most guys in a divorce will have to pay a proportion of the wealth they accumulated during the marriage along with a level of income to keep the child(ren) appropriately. Sir Paul McCartney obtained most of his wealth well before he met and married Heather Mills, in fact a good proportion of it was from work done before she was even born!

Lets be honest, she doesn't need more, the settlement should ensure that their child is kept in an appropriate manner and with £24m in the bank even with a meagre 5% interest she'll have £1.2m of income to live on, hardly on the bread line is it? Oh and another £35,000 per year for child maintenance, which is considerably more than most common men pay for their kids.

Maybe she deserves more, maybe he was all those things she accused him of, but maybe her ignoring her advisers and being caught out as a liar indicates where the problem lies

She claimed to have been earning as much as £250,000 per week, yet her tax income showed her declared earnings prior to marriage being as low as £42,000 per year, so either that was a huge lie or there should be a very in depth investigation by HM Revenue & Customs for the undelcared earnings and taxation overdue on them.

Now can we just send her to America and tear up her passport and stop her coming back to the UK.

Arfie

 

[andywg]

Paul was actually going to offer £55m at the end, but the junior counsel advised against it.

As Arfie said, the divorce settlement is mostly about money gained during the marriage. In many marriages the mother has given up work to have the child and thus all the earnings are divided up with the child's interest being paramount. Here it was slightly different in that his wealth was almost all from before he met her.f

Also interesting is the story in the Sun today about Heather buying a first class ticket on a plane but sending her kid in economy. Great parenting that...

 

[Arfie]

Aye, but that is the Sun, so I take that with a pinch of salt

If it's true it makes her previous rants about Sir Paul travelling first class and the kid going cattle class an amusing bit of hypocrisy

If she carries on whining, perhaps she should be investigated and charged with perjury.

Arfie

 

[shellz2008]

Cant stand the woman I turn radio off if i hear about her or the tv over if shes even on just a clip. she should try living in the real world, then she would have a right to complain.

 

[ALW]

Shes a goddam gold digger