Is Heather Mills a gold digger?

[undeterred]

Poll question: Is Heather Mills a gold digger?

[NashVegas]

1. No, She's A One-Legged Star Fucker

Huge difference.

[JanMichael]

2. Yes, she is. Ridiculous

horrible woman. His daughter couldn't stand her; he should have paid attention.

[Maine-ah]

3. I think she's a gold digger. I also think

all he wanted was a PYT to screw.

[KamaAina]

4. Imus used to call her "Stumpy the Golddigger"

imagine if she'd been black to boot. :eyes:

[WinkyDink]

5. He married her without duress. He fathered her child. He's a billionaire.

He is also a world-class cheap-skate.

[Bake]

20. Let me guess which way you voted on the poll ...

:rofl:

Bake

[WinkyDink]

24. And I love Paul! Always have loved! He's the only Beatle I sketched, back in junior high!

But truth is truth!

[Bake]

25. Come on! How do you know he's a world-class cheapskate?

And if he is (although I doubt it), so what?

Mills, undeniably, is a world-class gold digger. If Paul is so cheap, why did he offer her more to settle than she ended up getting?

Paul was foolishly romantic (the fool on the hill?) to marry her without a pre-nup!

:hi:

Bake

[WinkyDink]

37. Because the judge opened his $$ records. Half-billionaire+.

[mondo joe]

33. Without duress, true. But my guess is she was acting in bad faith,

and I generally pity someone tricked into a deal.

[WinkyDink]

38. Oh, I have a feeling she'd have preferred to become a rich widow. ;)

[mondo joe]

39. LOL! Indeed.

I think you're quite right.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. She ain't messin' with no broke [expletive deleted]

[XemaSab]

9. If you ain't a punk holla "We want pre-nup! We want pre-nup!"

You know it's something that you need to have, 'cause when she leave yo' ass, she's gonna leave with half...

Kanye tells it like it is. :D

[Sheets of Easter]

19. Get down, primate, go'head, get down.

[LSdemocrat]

7. Let's just say there aren't many easier ways of getting $50 million bucks

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Oh I disagree. In the words of Ann Landers,

"Women who marry for money earn every penny."

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. I ain't sayin she's a golddigger...

..but she ain't messin' with no broke Beatle.

[Mugu]

10. She's not as much gold digger as she is wacko.

She fired her attorneys and represented herself after going out and trashing a British icon. If she only wanted money she would have planned things better and then let her attorneys handle the heavy lifting.

Regards, Mugu

[Maccagirl]

11. She wouldn't know how to tell the truth if it hit her in the face

I re-read "Out On A Limb" and then the sanitized "A Single Step" and the woman has been caught in so many lies it's pathetic. I feel sorry for her daughter.

[edbermac]

12. You're pretty bad when you get folks to feel sorry for a billionaire.

Heather, you make Yoko Ono look like a saint.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

13. I don't think we're in a position to judge

We don't know the facts really -we can only make assumptions. We don't know and will probably never know the real story and what we read in the media is hardly reliable -especially from the British Murdoch-owned tabloids, the epitomy of sleaze and trash. I wouldn't like to jump to conclusions on this one

[texas1928]

14. Who cares...

I don't...

[MissMillie]

15. that was my response as well

:shrug:

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. How about the OPPOSITE question?

Is Paul McCartney a user who just wanted a trophy wife?

Her public behavior's been rather unappetizing, but trivial in the grand order of things. (Iraq, anyone?) Meanwhile, is he necessarily a saint just because he wrote some good songs and his first marriage was happy? Do we know? Should we care?

The fact that we don't even have a phrase as snappy as "gold digger" to describe a flaccid old guy who takes on a trophy wife in a bid to feel young again reveals a lot, I think.

edit for grammar.

[mondo joe]

26. A distinction: in the case of a flaccid old guy and a trophy wife, marriage is

mutually agreed upon, based on whatever the motivations are for all parties concerned. It is mutually consensual.

Marrying someone so you can divorce and take a significant chunk of that person's money is a strategy, but is not mutually consensual. It's a subtle form of theft, IMO.

Hence there is no opposite in terms of marriage because it is not consensual.

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. Paul said, "I do."

Frankly, what does one person need with a billion fucking dollars? Things have a way of evening out, don't they. I don't hear quite the outrage about any remaining wage gap between men and women around here.

Heather may be an unsavory character. Or she may not be. I've never met her, I don't know. But I sure as hell am getting sick of the flagrant woman-hating around here. Bitch, slut, golddigger. What next?

[mondo joe]

29. He did indeedm so he took the risk. But if the golddigger marries only

with the intent of divorcing as soon as is feasible, IMO she's guilty of theft.

In such a case it's not truly a mutually consensual agreement to marry because they both have different intentions - and one is deceptive.

It's not exclusive to men - there are gold digger males, more commonlycalled gigolos. There's not as much of a market because there are fewer old wealthy women. (I'd suggest women tend to be smarter about such things as well, and are less likely to get snookered.)

[Ellen Forradalom]

30. If Paul was so besotted he didn't see that

(assuming that was indeed the case), the problem is his and his alone.

The term golddigger is understood to apply to females. When was the last time anyone posted a poll asking if Ashton Kutcher was a golddigger?

[mondo joe]

32. I guess I still think when one party acts in bad faith it's not okay.

I don't think "golddigger" is applied to men. It's usually "gigolo".

For what it's worth I thought the creep parasites trying to enrich themselves off Anna Nicole Smith were at least as bad as Heather Mills - and likely worse.

[Ellen Forradalom]

34. Like I said,

Heather may or may not be an unsavory character, but since I don't know her nor have I read the court papers, I'm in no position to judge. But I do see that people are all too eager to call women golddigger, bitch and whore. If you're none of these, you're a ditsy little soccer mom. Ya can't fuckin' win.

This subthread seems to have reached a stalemate. Shall we agree to disagree and move on?

[mondo joe]

36. It's just my guess, based on her fudged accusations, and her asking for an ourageous

sum that she did nothing to earn.

Had they been married for a long time, or had she been Paul's partner in earning their fortune, I'd fully support her getting half.

As it is, it seems to me she wanted to get rich off someone else's effort.

I don't call "women" golddiggers, but THIS one maybe.

We can move on.

[skygazer]

18. She's always struck me as a bit of a loony

She evidently poured a glass of water on McCartney's attorney's head after the verdict. :wow: Classy lady.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. After seeing this list:

She argued that she needed £500,000 a year for holidays which included £242,000 for accommodation, £35,000 for helicopter flights, £72,000 for commercial flights and £150,000 for private flights.
...
After listing the seven properties she wished to possess, she demanded seven full-time house-keepers and other staff totalling £645,000 a year.

In addition, she requested £125,000 a year for clothes, £30,000 annually for equestrian activities (she no longer rides), £39,000 a year for wine, £43,000 per annum for a driver, £20,000 annually for a carer and £190,000 a year for "professional fees".
...
Rather than permitting her between £8 million and £12.5 million for a London home, he said she should settle for £2.5 million. He decided she should receive an annual sum of £100,000 to maintain that property and the two others, Pean's Wood and Angel's Rest. She would not have any claim on any other property.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/18/nmacca1318.xml

guess what I vote.

[LynneSin]

28. What's sad is she used Beatrice to justfiy these extravegant needs

First, lil Bea ain't ever going to have to worry about money. This settlement does not mean Paul will never spend another dime on his lil baby girl, I think he would just rather spend it without using Heather Mills as a go-between.

Mills also quoted about needing the money to go towards her Charitities. Well that's bullshit. Why should McCartney finance her charities. If the charties are worth while the public will donate. If they are junk, then they should be shut down. Paul should not be forced to use divorce settlements to run her chartities

[Xithras]

31. She drinks $60,000 a year worth of wine?!?!?!

Holy crap!

:toast:

[hyphenate]

22. Unfortunately

Paul didn't have a pre-nup with Heather. I think he went in to the marriage with a dream-like faith that he would spend the rest of his life with her as he had with Linda. It just proves that he was/is/will always be a romantic, and that too many people likely take advantage of that quality in him. I feel very sad for him that she wasn't like Linda at all, in far too many ways, she was the opposite.

Paul is a man of grace, passion and kindness, and to be so disillusioned by Heather and her free-spending ways is heartbreaking. I hope he will realize that while not everyone is as great as Linda was for him, not everyone is like Heather, either.

PS: I don't think she's a golddigger, but I think she really took advantage of Paul's good nature.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. I read the judge's opinion and other articles on the Daily Mail website.

One article stated that pre-nups are not enforced in England.

The judge should have held her in contempt of court & thrown her in jail for pouring water on the opposing counsel. That was trashy. I can't believe he did not do that.

[mitchum]

23. Yoko Ono is VERY happy right now...

she will no longer be the world's most hated Beatle wife

[DemoTex]

40. Well, unlike Elliot Spitzer's situation, Sir Paul married her.

Actually I'm trending to her side, just because he can afford it. But, bottom line, it is all about money. Eh, Elliott?

Besides, I liked George Harrison much more (those Traveling Wilburys!). And obviously John Lennon.

Did I ever post about the time I met the Beatles in 1965 (?) during their Atlanta tour. No? Remind me to do that. My sisters were just asking me about that at the beach the other night. That is an old, famous, family story.


Harrison, Lynn, Petty, Orbison, and Dylan.