Heather Mills to appeal against £24.3m settlement!

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How can that not be enough? The papers are going to have a field day.....

I really don't know what people get out of attacking her so much. So she might be a bit 'strange', she might even have a personality disorder - or just a plain "fruit loop" or "nutter" - aren't you all glad you aren't her then? Yet all so envious too.. Go figure.

Not envious of her. I get angry with people telling me how to live my life and theirs is so perfect!!!! She bleats on that she would never harm any animal yet her regard for people leaves a lot to be desired

beanieS, you only have to read the judgment which I linked yesterday (and enjoyed reading) and we linked above to see how she was. You can't just say in court I had £2m and then produce no evidence for it. You cannot say I paid £X for security but have no evidence for it. It virtually proves you're lying. It makes not difference whether her husband has £800k or £400k, her needs are said to be met by the lump sum which generates £600k a year for her so what his assets are is irrelevant to that analysis.

I'm not remotely envious - why should I be?

Joash, as far as I can work out HM's claim was not based in the real world which most of us live in. They were only married for 4 years or so - 99% of PM's wealth was accumulated before HM was part of his life. She was only entitled to 4 years worth of that money. Their daughter's needs are a separate issue.

Financially at least.

I am not envious of her life, but I went a bit green eyed over the sums being thrown around. I wish I had 20k per year to spend on flowers - I really do. Our church could do with them.

Just one, honest only the one, private jet trip for us would be devine. We are not flying again until our children are 18

Thank you Scatty for your honesty!

LOL! You are all so jel about the money!

Why the hell else would you care?

because it's like watching a train wreck.

I don't think it's anything to do with being jealous about the money. I really wish she would just disappear - none of it is really any of our business but HM makes such a public show of everything, it ends up splashed all over the papers.

The judgement detailed how HM courts publicity and PM doesn't - his lifestyle before meeting her was very low key and private.

The most objectional thing is her forever harping on about how much she's given to charity for 20 years and as proved in the judgement, she hadn't donated anything before marrying PM. Someone who can freely spends that much money on themselves can hardly be described as charitable.

I think the judgement itself is fascinating because of the insight it provides into a level of wealth and lifestyle that most of us will never experience.

objectionable - is objectional a word?

What gets me ( and I havent read the rest of the thread so forgive me if I am repeating ! ) that she pretends that she is so pro women and our rights etc.......yet in my view she has just set women back many years.

The Daily Telegraph had a fab article today imagine Heather Mills to the back tune of Benny Hill...she is a walking disaster area !

We are all good mothers but do we deserve what she was claiming for ? NO. Most of us would do it for love and food and water !

I am an independent women........have a fab career.......I earn £350k per year as a lawyer. Im not boasting I am very lucky. But its hard work, I could afford a personal trainer but I dont have time to visit one. I do a 70 hour week as a minimum and I run a household on top.IM KNACKERED.
I find women like Heather Mills an insult to what I have worked my arse off for yet I appreciate that most women could work twice as many hours as I do and never hope to earn a fraction of what I get.They are just a fantastic as me.

GET REAL HEATHER. You are nothing without him and stop trying to convince yourself you are ! We are all special in our own right.

MP

But sex and looks still pay pretty well and as long as that is so I suppose some women will marry for money (or have sex for money) - look at Eliott Spitzer's escort girl - because of the case she earned 200,000 dollars in 48 hours just from downloads of her songs after it blew up.

But yes every woman who claims from a man like this in effect does women down and makes us appear as leeches on men and only after money and not content to earn our own.

does anyone remember Heather Mills before she married the slime ball then - or only me?

Oh give it a rest Xenia - you can't change human nature. Men and women look the way they do because that's what they find attractive - rage against evolution all you want, it's not a conscious thing. You are tilting at windmills.

LOL at MP. Erm, yes.

All women are equal - except if theyare HM

I agree with Xenia

I agree so much with MP I can hardly type.

As on another thread, I hate to see such anti-feminist behaviour not even being questioned. HM is perfectly capable of earning her own living and providing for 50 per cent of her child's needs and the fact that she lies down and kicks her heels and shrieks I want money and I'm entitled to it makes me blush for womankind.

From a moral point of view she has an obligation to provide for her child (as does he, and he is not shirking it), as we all do. The law aside (and I am not familiar with UK law), the morality of the situation requires HM to step away from the marriage asking nothing for herself and reasonable (preferably 50-50) provision for their daughter.

The only moral reason I can see for HM to get anything for herself (as opposed to for their daughter) would be if she were to plan to be a stay at home mother and care for the little girl full time and thereby be unable to commit to work. But a nanny is provided for, separately.

Oh, fury!

I thought the trying to con him out of £480k to pay off a non-existent mortgage was particularly yuk. I would think the same, regardless of gender.

Rhym. Are you her/her sister/'personal trainer?'

Many a fool does

I can't bear either of them. I think they are both as bad as each other. And if I had been the judge, I would have given HM a smaller amount (to pay for Beatrice), and also (and this is probably impractical and illegal) given lots of PMc's money to a charity. Because the whole judgement made me feel sick, the amounts of money being bandied around.

It's just criminal that some people are so obscenely wealthy that they lose track of real life and what some people have to live on. The thousands of pounds designated for 'food and flowers' for example. How many people could that ACTUALLY feed?

Why did she appear in court with her personal trainer??? I think you just need to take a look at the papers and realise we are not a minority of people who find her repellant

I am never jealous of rich people. It's a free market. If you have the skills form a new Beatles. What is wrong is the divorce law which says you can take another adult's wealth which is based on the days when women were property of their husbands and needed to be kept. In some countries adults cannot make financial claims on each other after divorce once their own assets are divided.

I'm not jealous of them xenia - I just think it is wrong that anyone should have that amount of wealth, and there is something wrong with a world that rewards some 'skills' such as footballing and writing songs so disproportionately.

bubble, I wish I had a non-existent mortgage!