Mills awarded $48.6M from McCartney

[Demeter]

Source: AP from Yahoo

LONDON - A judge has awarded Heather Mills a total of $48.6 million in the financial settlement of her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney.

A document released by the Family Court says the judge awarded Mills a lump sum of $33 million plus assets she currently holds worth $15.6 million. Mills says she is "very happy" with the settlement.

McCartney, 65, and Mills, 40, went to court last month to decide on Mills' share of his fortune, which is estimated at as much as $1.6 billion. Media reports have suggested McCartney offered Mills around $50 million, and that she was seeking at least double that amount.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080317/ap_on_en_mu/mccartney_divorce_4

[gatorboy]

1. Hopping for joy, I'm sure!

[Demeter]

2. Now That's Just Damn Cruel

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[joeybee12]

3. He offered her $50 million, she says no, spends more on lawyers and

lets it drag out, gets basically the same. nice legal advice.

[GodlessBiker]

4. A mere bag of shells for Sir McCartney. It's probably just the interest he earns in a few months.

[SoFlaJet]

5. Stella was right about her

he shoulda listened to his daughter about Heather-that female intuition thing and all....listen to the woman boy, listen to the woman-if I had listened to my wife more all these years, as she keeps reminding me every chance she gets...

[asjr]

6. Wow! I simply could not

have made it through the day without knowing all this. Our great media at work again.

[JackintheGreen]

11. And yet we both clicked on it, didn't we?

I am ashamed of myself, by I clicked. sigh...

[Psephos]

21. There is no shame in clicking on stories that we're biologically wired to be curious about.

Gossip served a purpose in the tribal crucible of human evolution, and it arguably still does.

[LibDemAlways]

7. Sir Paul's biggest mistake (besides returning

Heather's initial "hello") was signing on the dotted line of the marriage certificate without first signing a pre-nup. Very, very stupid.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. That was worth more than all of Trump's divorces put together...

Four years at 12 million a year...not bad, Heather, not bad. She must be a very good con artist.

[TML]

9. Not enough for her

Did you hear her public statement on CNN this morning? She's APPEALING the judgment because it's not enough. She's also pissed off because of the perception that she lost her case.

I'd love to "lose" and get paid 25 million pounds. Where do I sign up?

[magellan]

13. And she made no mention of the money for their child, Beatrice

...which is nothing to sneeze at and should be the most important thing to a caring mother.

Mucca also alleged the transcribers will change the wording of what happened in court to make her look bad. That simply doesn't happen.

The woman is a viper and gold-digger and Paul was very stupid not to protect himself financially when he married her.

"All you need is love...and a tight pre-nup."

edited: I'd heard £800K/year for Beatrice, but it's actually £35K/year plus school and nanny expenses.

[onehandle]

10. Much less that originally expected. He got off good.

The moron. I miss Linda.

[NashVegas]

17. So Do I

When Linda was still alive, Paul didn't seek publicity everytime he issued a fart.

[Kolesar]

12. So the message is clear: when you're on your back the meter's running

for all you SNL fans

[msongs]

14. listened to her press conference - she is NOT happy, an ungrateful gold digger

first words out of her mouth were how much Paul is really worth and all she got was this lousy 24 million pounds. Then she complained that their daughter was only getting 35 thousand pounds PER MONTH which is about $70,000 PER MONTH and that Paul was "going first class while their daughter was going B class."

Then she bitched and moaned that the terms of the settlement would be made public and she would look bad.

"I'm A Loser" she sang. Too bad that's a John Lennon song.

Msong

[Demeter]

16. But Oh So True!

Loser, indeed.

[shanti]

15. cha-ching!

:eyes:

[earth mom]

18. Good for her!

:woohoo:

[Freedom Train]

19. What a greedy, gold-digging whore...

You better enjoy the damn money, 'cause you won't get any respect to go along with it. :puke:

[go west young man]

20. Sad to know that Beatles royalties, which I'm sure we've all

contributed to, are going to a greedy person like her.

[FVZA_Colonel]

22. I never really understood why,

but after hearing about how she apparently through a glass of water in the face of McCartney's attorney and then saying the woman had been "baptized" that morning I think I can understand why pretty much the entire island of Great Britain hates her.

[Algorem]

23. McCartney rues the day he started reading those Penthouse am-

putee letters.ended up costing him a whole 1/32nd of his moolah.