That Dupree chick has NOTHING on this woman

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Heather Mills, the estranged wife of Paul McCartney, was granted nearly 25 million pounds ($50 million) in her divorce proceedings with the former Beatle, she said Monday.
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Mills and McCartney, pictured before divorce proceedings, married in 2002 and have a young daughter.

Mills said she will not appeal the award, but she will appeal the publication of the hearing transcript, which she said McCartney has asked for.

In an 11-minute statement to reporters outside the High Court after the verdict, Mills said she was pleased that the bitter divorce hearings had ended.

"I'm so glad it's over and it was an incredible result, in the end, to secure my and my daughter's future, and that of all the charities that I obviously plan on helping," said Mills, dressed in a khaki, green and blue suit with a bright red shirt.

Mills has established a career as a campaigner and charity worker since losing a leg in a road accident in 1993. Video Watch Mills react to the decision »

Judge Hugh Bennett awarded Mills, who represented herself, 23.7 million pounds ($47.4 million). She said McCartney had proposed 15.8 million pounds ($31.6 million). Read the court's statement

The judgment included 35,000 pounds ($70,000) a year for the couple's 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice. Mills said she was unhappy with that amount because it isn't enough for school tuition, private security, or first-class airfare.

"He likes her to fly five times a year on holiday," Mills said of McCartney. "It's 17,000 (pounds) for two people return (round-trip) first class, so that's obviously not meant to happen for her anymore. It's very sad."

Mills said she would appeal to stop the publication of the entire judgment because it contains private details about Beatrice and she doesn't want them released. The judge has granted permission for the litigants to speak publicly, she said.

McCartney did not speak to reporters after the verdict.

Mills said that as a "litigant in person," or a litigant representing herself, the system worked against her at every turn.

"These people are in a club," she said. "It's like they want to stay together and they don't want to see a litigant in person doing well."

She said the judge did not agree with her on important details, including how long the couple lived together or even McCartney's personal wealth, which she estimated at 800 million pounds ($1.6 billion). She said the judge estimated it to be half of that.
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"I won't go into all the horrific details of what happened because I'm just glad it's over," Mills said. "I really hope now that me and my daughter can have a life and not be followed every single day, and that is why I've come out -- to give it closure."

McCartney and Mills failed to agree on a settlement ending their four-year marriage in divorce hearings last month, leaving the judge to decide the terms.

McCartney and Mills married in 2002 after meeting at a charity event.

At the time of their split in 2006, they described it as amicable, despite widespread reports of a tempestuous relationship between McCartney and the former model.

Mills has since lashed out at news media coverage of the divorce, which she said has been unfair to her and driven her to the brink of suicide.
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In a television interview last year, Mills said she had endured "18 months of abuse, worse than a murderer or pedophile."

Monday's divorce settlement fell short of the previous record for a litigated divorce settlement in Britain. An award of £48 million ($96 million) was handed down last year, according to British divorce lawyer Julian Lipson.

What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?
 

newb111

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Originally posted by: Ns1
What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?

She can buy her daughter all those things out of her share like a normal parent.
 

Anubis

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tbqhwy.com
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Ns1
What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?

She can buy her daughter all those things out of her share like a normal parent.

or fly coach and go to public school like normal people
 

legoman666

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fucking A dude. I wonder if Paul will swing the other way to marry me for 2 years so I can get my cut also.
 

freegeeks

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some people are just disconnected from reality. It's ironic that she's talking about the charities she wants to help and in the same sentence starts bitching about the fact the she can not buy first class tickets anymore
 

freegeeks

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Ns1
What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?

She can buy her daughter all those things out of her share like a normal parent.

or fly coach and go to public school like normal people

then she has to interact with peons like us which in their mind must be pure horror
 

Lonyo

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Ns1
What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?

She can buy her daughter all those things out of her share like a normal parent.

or fly coach and go to public school like normal people

No, public schools are the ones with a fee for her, since it's the UK :p
Normally people go to state schools.
 

trmiv

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Originally posted by: freegeeks
some people are just disconnected from reality. It's ironic that she's talking about the charities she wants to help and in the same sentence starts bitching about the fact the she can not buy first class tickets anymore

The charities are only so she can try to make herself feel less guilty about being rich and bitching about things like her kid not being able to fly first class enough.
 

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Shit, what a bitch. I don't understand why she is complaining that her daughter is only getting 35k pounds a year when she herself is getting a $50 million payout?!?! Can't she just use some of that money to buy her little darling first class tickets? You can buy her first class tickets every day just from the daily interest 50 mill generates.

Unbelievable. There are people starving in the world and she's pissed because 50 million is not enough. Wtf? That's enough for 50 lifetimes!
 

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Ns1
What bitch, you just got 50 mil, you can't drop 16k on first class airfare, private schooling, or security guards?

She can buy her daughter all those things out of her share like a normal parent.

or fly coach and go to public school like normal people

FTW!
 

Nebor

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I'd say Paul made out like a bandit. He's been estimated as a billion dollar man since the late 90s.
 

IEC

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I know what I'd do with 50 million, and it might involve retirement before I even have a real job...
 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Nebor
I'd say Paul made out like a bandit. He's been estimated as a billion dollar man since the late 90s.

50 million for a one-legged woman for 4 years is not a bargain
 
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"He likes her to fly five times a year on holiday," Mills said of McCartney. "It's 17,000 (pounds) for two people return (round-trip) first class, so that's obviously not meant to happen for her anymore. It's very sad."

:brokenheart:
 

rasczak

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Originally posted by: legoman666
fucking A dude. I wonder if Paul will swing the other way to marry me for 2 years so I can get my cut also.

Me first! Or maybe he believes in polyGAYmy? :eek:
 

Ns1

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Mills hoped to be paid £125m from the Beatles' singer's fortune.

And it has emerged she said she needed over £3million to fund her life of luxury.

The judgement says: "In her letter of 31 January 2008 the wife computes her reasonable needs for herself and Beatrice at £3,250,000 p.a. which amounts on a Duxbury capitalised basis to £99,480,000."

The document added: "She seeks between £8m and £12.5m for a home in London, £3m to purchase a property in New York, £500,000 to £750,000 to purchase an office in Brighton, a transfer to her of a mortgage in favour of the husband over her sister?s (Fiona) Hove property, transfer of property order re a Southampton property owned by the husband in which Sonya Mills lives, and relief in respect of chattels.

Honest

"Further, the wife asks the court 'to place a significant monetary value on compensation for loss of earnings, contribution and conduct.'"

The judge described Sir Paul McCartney?s evidence as ?balanced?.

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He said: ?He expressed himself moderately though at times with justifiable irritation, if not anger. He was consistent, accurate and honest.?

However, Mr Justice Bennett said: ?But I regret to have to say I cannot say the same about the wife?s evidence.

?Having watched and listened to her give evidence, having studied the documents, and having given in her favour every allowance for the enormous strain she must have been under (and in conducting her own case), I am driven to the conclusion that much of her evidence, both written and oral, was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid. Overall she was a less than impressive witness.?

Mr Justice Bennett said Mills was a ?strong-willed and determined personality? who had shown great fortitude in overcoming her disability.

?She has conducted her own case before me with a steely, yet courteous, determination.?

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The ruling also cast doubts over Mills' claims that she donated 80 per cent of her earnings to good causes.

Mr Justice Bennet said: "In her evidence she told me that as much as 80 per cent or 90 per cent of her earnings went direct to charities. However, the wife had to accept in her cross-examination that there was no documentary evidence, for example letters from the relevant charities, that her fees were sent direct to charities."

And the Judge said he could not accept Mills? case that she was wealthy and independent by the time she met the former Beatle in the middle of 1999.

?I find that the wife?s case as to her wealth in 1999 to be wholly exaggerated.

"The assertion that she was a wealthy person in 1999 is, of course, the first step in her overall case that her career, which in 1999 she says was one producing rich financial rewards, was thereafter blighted by the husband during their relationship.?

The Judge added: "By the time of the parties? first meeting in May of 1999 the wife says that she was wealthy and independent with, as she told me in evidence, properties and cash totalling between £2m and £3m.

"I have to say I cannot accept the wife?s case that she was wealthy and independent by the time she met the husband in the middle of 1999. Her problem stems from the lack of any documentary evidence to support her case as to the level of her earnings."

The Judge added: "Her tax returns for 1999 and 2000 do not support the wife?s case of very significant earnings as set out in her affidavit.

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Mucca rant

"Furthermore, her assertion that she gave away to charity 80 per cent to 90 per cent of her earned income is inconsistent with having £2m-£3m in the bank in 1999.

"The wife accepted that had she had £2m to £3m in the bank in 1999 she is most likely to have put such a sum into an account earning interest.

"But the tax returns do not disclose any bank interest earned or only very small sums which are not consistent with holding £2m- £3m in a bank or banks. Moreover her tax returns disclose no charitable giving at all."

The judge said Mucca was 'her own worst enemy' and she claimed she could not get work because she was vilified by the press.

But the judge concluded: "I accept that since April 2006 the wife has had a bad press. She is entitled to feel that she has been ridiculed even vilified. To some extent she is her own worst enemy. She has an explosive and volatile character."

The judge backed Sir Paul?s assertion that their ?true and settled relationship? began upon marriage in June 2002 and not, as Mills asserted, in March 2000.

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In assessing their relationship before their marriage, the judge said the background was of importance.

?The husband?s wife, Linda, had died in 1998. Their marriage endured for some 30 years. Repeatedly in his evidence the husband described how, even during his relationship with the wife in 1999 to 2002, he was grieving for Linda.

?I have no doubt the husband found the wife very attractive. But equally I have no doubt that he was still very emotionally tied to Linda.?

The judge said it was ?not without significance? that until Sir Paul married Mills, he wore the wedding ring given to him by Linda.

?Upon being married to the wife, he removed it and it was replaced by a ring given to him by the wife.

?The wife, for her part, must have felt rather swept off her feet by a man as famous as the husband. I think this may well have warped her perception, leading her to indulge in make-believe. The objective facts do not support her case.?

Danger

The full judgment was made public after the former model?s application for an appeal was refused today.

Mills, who was represented by David Rosen, was not in court to hear two Court of Appeal judges rule that the decision by the divorce hearing judge, Mr Justice Bennett, to publish the full judgment was within his discretion and could not be challenged.

Mr Rosen, who sat with Mills throughout the six-day hearing last month as she represented herself, told the judges today that she was worried that security arrangements involving the estranged couple?s four-year-old daughter, Beatrice, would be made public if the whole of the judgment was published.

?Miss Mills believes her daughter will be put in real danger. It is most disturbing,? he told Lords Justices Thorpe and Wall.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...news/article932648.ece
 

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Heather Mills could star in the next Pirates of the Carribean movie, she already has the peg-leg thing going, just add a parrot, an eye patch, and she'd be set.