TUFF LUV i.e. Love is tough--- for the guy.
It was an icy cold March day in LONDON when poor Beatle Paul (Mc Cartney) had to fork over 50 million dollars to Heather, his wife of four years. Don't weep for him Argentina. He has over a billion bucks, so this was chump change. Heather is a very lucky girl. She had a past and not a lot got said about it.
Read: http://www.masterjules.net/heather.htm which is an interesting look at Mrs Mc Cartney's seamy doings as a kid of twenty. She stripped, posed, sold, starred pinupped and was a real sex pot, loose as a goose, and it was this TALENT that appealed to the BEATLE. Yep, it's how she nailed PAUL, that sexy streak but also the elegant, charismatic charity (wooden legs,) that she ran.
What a roller coaster life for Heather and today, the announcement: "MC CARTNEY - MILLS DIVORCE SETTLEMENT TERMS are 50 million dollars. All for her. Much more for the Daughter Beatrice.
This kind of settlement isn't unusual. Here are the top 10 celebrity settlements IN REVERSE ORDER, smallest first the real big ones at the end! NOW IT IS IN ENGLISH POUNDS which are worth DOUBLE the dollar.
10) Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, 1999: £12.5m which is 24 million bucks. The costliest British celeb split before the McCartneys began with the exposure of Jaggers affair with Brazilian model Luciana Morad and ended with the Rolling Stone paying up but only after he had threatened to challenge the legality of his Bali wedding to the Texan supermodel. Jerry.
9) Ted Danson and Casey Coates, 1993: £15m 1993 was a busy year for Danson “ his hit show Cheers ended, he appeared in public with new girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg and he opened his wallet to end a 16-year marriage to former designer Coates.
8) Michael and Diandra Douglas, 1998: £22.5m Two splits, rumours of affairs and a rehab stint“ possibly for sex addiction“ made Michael probably not the greatest husband in the world. Luckily for Mrs Douglas, he wasnt the greatest tightwad in the world either “ the couple did not have pre-nuptial agreement.
7) Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, 2008: £23.4m 48 million bucks. Enough said. Especially by Heather.
6) James Cameron and Linda Hamilton, 1999: £25m Having dumped director wife Kathryn Bigelow for his Terminator star Hamilton, it wasnt too much of a surprise when the self-styled King Of The World said Hasta La Vista to their relationship and ran off with Titanic actress Suzy Amis. Still, the payout was small change for the man who spent £200million filming his Oscar-winning epic.
5) Kevin Costner and Cindy Silva, 1994: £40m Costners alleged indiscretions were a regular tabloid feature during the early 1990s, but it was still a shock when he and restaurateur wife Cindy split after 16 years of marriage.
4) Harrison Ford and Melissa Matheson, 2004: £42m Screenwriter Matheson, who wrote the screenplay for ET, and Ford were together for over two decades after meeting on the set of Apolcalypse Now. He deal included a percentage of his future movie earnings.
3) Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving, 1989: £50m After Spielberg got together with Kate Capshaw, who he had directed in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Carrie star Irving launched a legal battle against their pre-nup and ended up with half his fortune.
2) Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey, 1994: £75m Diamond was certainly a girls best friend when the singer and his wife of 25 years split. Neil cheerfully handed over $150m, claiming she was worth every penny..
1) Michael and Jaunita Jordan, 2007: £84m Having split
up briefly in 2002, the basketball superstar and his missus made it official
five years later with a divorce settlement which still looks cheap against
his reported £225m fortune.