I don't know about you, but personally I'm glad this marriage is over, I never really cared much for her:
Apparently, Heather Mills won't be needing or feeding Paul McCartney when he's 64. The 63-year-old ex-Beatle and the 38-year-old model-turned-activist have announced their plans to separate after four years of marriage. The twosome attributed the rift to the challenge of living life in the spotlight.
"Having tried exceptionally hard to make our relationship work given the daily pressures surrounding us, it is with sadness that we have decided to go our separate ways," the couple said in a statement.
"Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much." Mills and McCartney are the parents of two-year-old Beatrice, for whose sake they said they hoped they would "be given some space and time to get through this difficult period."
The couple first met in 1999 at an event for Mills' charity, the Heather Mills Health Trust, which she launched in 1993 after losing a leg in a motorcycle accident. They wed in a lavish ceremony in 2002, four years after the death of McCartney's first wife, Linda from breast cancer.
Their union was surrounded by controversy from the start, with rumors abounding that Sir Paul's kids were no fans of their new stepmother. Mills was also frequently panned in the press for allegedly influencing her husband on everything from dying his hair and undergoing plastic surgery to the dismissal of his longtime business manager, Geoff Brown.
In 2004, McCartney came to his wife's defense following one particularly damaging article. In a letter which Mills posted on her official Website (which was unavailable on Wednesday), he wrote:
"Although some of these articles can be funny, there are others that are plain malicious and you need to be strong not to be hurt by some of the cruel suggestions that flow from these peoples' pens."
In happier days, McCartney and Mills campaigned together on causes such as protesting the seal hunt in the Canadian Maritimes.
As a testament to their faith that their relationship would last, the couple is believed to have no prenuptial agreement in place, meaning Mills could be entitled to a hefty chunk of McCartney's estimated $1.5 billion fortune.
Mills told Vanity Fair in 2002 that she had offered to sign a prenup, but that McCartney had refused.
"I wanted to prove that I love him for him," she told the magazine. "He said, 'I wouldn't let you.'"
Love may be all you need, but in this case, Macca could probably use a good divorce lawyer.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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2 comments:
Bug,
Eventhough Paul McCartney is 64, he is still cute enough to have a wife with two legs!!! HA HA HA
MOM
I agree, allison will be happy!
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