Do you remember Heather Mills?

And Paul and Heather had put Beatrice in a top and expensive kindergarten.
As well as the £24 million, Paul paid for private school fees, a nanny and annual child maintenance of £35,000, That really is not a lot from a billionaire.

Why should a billionaires child live a modest lifestyle?
And yes I said her child. She was the resident parent and lots are seeing the money as just for her, it wasnt.

What struck me about the documentary is how everything is coming from him. All the ideas, all the drive. All the staff are looking to him for decisions. He was cracking up under the strain. Lennon is playing around on the fringes or turning up late. He just doesn’t seem to care much. It was an eye opener. Every single song more or less was McCartneys. The third episode shows them coming together more . Once they do the roof top performance they just light up and it all goes. So sad that that was the last time. I found it very affecting.

@TheElvishQueen I said pretty much the same thing to my DH after watching it.

Wait.... I have spent the last 15 years thinking that she was the woman that made all the veggie sausages etc in the supermarket- under her Heather McCartney name. I always thought that was a good thing for her to do after the divorce-at least she made a name for herself making accessible veggie food.

JUST realised that is Linda McCartney!

I’d be very surprised if all of Paul McCartneys properties aren’t held in Trust funds. He won’t officially “own” them anyway. So Heather Mills would have no rights over them anyway.
Iirc she bought houses during their marriage, I presumably the money for those came from Paul.

There is a thousand million in a billion. 24 million was pocket change to Paul. He is tight.

No she did not fleece him. He is a billionaire. She got a divorce settlement for her and their child.

You can’t really blame him for changing the locks. She fleeced him out of 24 million quid. Not that she had then, but the writing was on the wall. And fair dos, he’s only human.

I bet even she would consider her run in with the press outside Paul’s house (which he bought in the 60’s, by the way) a fair trade off for the 24 mil. I don’t see what misogyny has to do with it.

Don't know about Heather Mills but I grew up in the mid-2000s and the misogyny was absolutely disgusting. Paris Hilton's leaked sex tape, all the horrendous dating shows, Snoop Dogg walking down the carpet at the VMAS with two women on dog leads. The tone was so terrible towards women, I remember. Lots of fat shaming, lots of slut shaming. It's not perfect but miles ahead of where it used to be.

So he changed the locks on the house they lived in, or he changed the locks on a bunch of other properties that he brought into the relationship? Or he did so in properties that they bought due to their joint efforts? These things make all the difference, and, furthermore, why would McCartney be responsible for her 'protection'? She wasn't married to the Godfather.

But given that Paul McCartney is a very rich person who I'm assuming owned those properties before he married Heather Mills, what claim did she have on them?

Assuming is the key word there isn’t it? You don’t know any more than I do.

What I read though was that in what used to be the joint marital home, he allegedly without warning, very quickly changed the locks and left her out on the street being swarmed by paps. How true that is, who knows. There were other examples of how swiftly he’d withdrawn protection from her so that she was from then on completely vilified by the press and in turn by many of those readers who believed it.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/01/the-beatles-mike-paul-mccartney-best-photograph
A little off topic, but this was in today's Guardian. Saw it and thought of this thread. What the hell is George doing?!

But given that Paul McCartney is a very rich person who I'm assuming owned those properties before he married Heather Mills, what claim did she have on them?

Why wouldn’t he change the locks? He clearly didn’t trust her. With good reason, no doubt.

Because they were still joint marital properties…

Thanks, yes it did.

Elvish I think I've PM you. Not sure it worked though

Why has the above comment from @mankywits been deleted when all my controversial speculations haven’t? Lol.

Start a thread then!

You seem very sure that there’s no evidence, Elvish. On the other hand, you hadn’t even heard of Jack Douglas, and you didn’t know (or believe) about the power of attorney, so I would say you are not that well informed.

What else is there to say about Heather Mills? Does anyone even care about her?

And - because I am not clued up enough about MN to know the answer to this one - are you not allowed to widen the topic when you run out of things to say? There is literally nothing left to say about Heather Mills.

On the other hand, John/Yoko/Paul stuff is actually worth reading. I’m sure most people would agree.

No evidence for any of these claims. We are derailing the thread though.

We already had this conversation further up the thread:

1. He was obsessed with being a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
2. He was obsessed with being shot.
3. He was worried about how he would be remembered. He had always wanted to be the most famous person in the world, bigger than Elvis. He wanted to be remembered as the legendary rock star in the world - (and this is most important) BIGGER THAN PAUL.

It worked.