June
13, 2006 -- People Magazine
Paul,
Heather Mills McCartney to Divorce
After previous statements referring to her split from husband Paul McCartney as a separation, Heather Mills McCartney is now using the D-word.
"Contrary to recent press reports, Heather Mills McCartney will not be giving any interviews or commenting in relation to her pending divorce from her husband," said a statement issued by Mills McCartney's office Sunday.
And Tuesday morning, Mills McCartney's lawyer released another statement, marked "urgent," saying that she planned to sue a British tabloid after her divorce had been finalized.
"The interests of her daughter (Beatrice, 2) are of paramount concern," the statement says. "She will defer issue of legal proceedings until the arrangements in relation to the divorce are concluded, but intends to sue at that stage all parties, including individuals, who are intent on damaging her reputation."
On Sunday, Britain's News of the World ran an article claiming that Mills McCartney once worked as a high-priced call girl.
The statement continues: "Heather is very distressed by this article. She continues to recover slowly from her revision amputation operation and has suffered weight loss, anxiety and sleeping problems as a result of the stress and anxiety of the break up of her marriage. The coverage of this in certain newspapers has caused further distress and illness to her."
The McCartneys announced their split in May after four years of marriage.
Heather Mills McCartney is counterpunching at British reports that she was once a high-priced call girl who took part in orgies with rich Arabs.
Continuing the newspapers' scourging of Sir Paul's estranged wife, London's News of the World reported on Sunday that, when the future Lady McCartney was in her 20s, arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi paid her more than $11,000 to have sex - and that a Saudi prince shelled out $9,000-plus to join in a three-way with another woman.
Denise Hewitt, identified as a former prostitute, claimed she performed a lesbian sex act with Heather. Petrina Montrose, said to be a former escort, alleged Heather and the prince had it on at London's Dorchester Hotel.
Lawyers for Heather, now 38, said she "strongly denies the allegations," calling the paper's sources "unreliable persons who have been paid for these stories" and noting that she had refuted the stories when they surfaced four years ago.
But Abdul Khoury, identified as Khashoggi's former private secretary, contended in the News of the World that "she has repeatedly lied. She was a hooker. I know. I paid her."
The current prostitution claim comes just days after British papers carried saucy pictures of Heather from a German book, "Die Freuden Der Liebe," or "The Joys of Love." Heather's defenders have insisted the book was an educational marital guide.
Britain's upmarket Independent detected "a deliberately orchestrated attempt to discredit the former model, who has always had a difficult relationship with the press."
Friends of Sir Paul vouch he has had nothing to do with the smear campaign.
"Paul told everyone in his camp he wanted the divorce handled with integrity," a pal tells us. "He doesn't want their [2-year-old] daughter, Beatrice, reading anything like this when she grows up."
The British press were often hard on Paul's late wife, Linda, who seems saintly by comparison.
"There's a tremendous affection for Paul," says one media-watcher. "It's brutal being married to a Beatle. Heather had a bull's-eye on her from day one. But I've never seen anything like this. The British press may have known a lot of this all along but held back out of respect for Paul."
As for reports that Heather would defend herself in an interview, a friend of the couple says, "That's erroneous. Would you do an interview if you were her?"
Heather Mills made a midnight dash to the home of her estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney last night.
It is the first time she has visited his London townhouse since the couple split last month.
The late-night visit came days after allegations that Heather, 38, had been a high-class prostitute.
The ex-model arrived in a blacked-out 4x4 with two women friends.
A witness said: "Heather was in the back seat, wearing beige trousers and a loose-fitting top.
"She didn't make a fuss when she arrived and didn't say anything when she went inside the house."
Macca, 63, has been dividing his time between homes in London and Peasmarsh, East Sussex, since they split.
Sources say the former Beatle was at his home in the capital over the weekend. The Mirror exclusively revealed last month that Heather was splitting from Sir Paul, who is worth £825 million ($1.5 billion).
Despite the break-up, the couple, who are thrashing out a divorce settlement, still speak regularly on the phone.
And just last week Heather visited him in Peasmarsh. But mystery surrounded last night's trip to Macca's house in St John's Wood.
Heather made the trip less than 24-hours after she assured him she was not a prostitute.
Sir Paul was said to be "deeply shocked" over allegations Heather was a highly paid hooker who bedded rich Arabs. During their hour-long phone call on Sunday, Heather emphatically denied the allegations.
A friend said: "Heather was very distressed but she told him with absolute certainty the allegations are not true."
Heather's mates are growing increasingly worried about her fragile state of mind.
And they say the only thing keeping her going is her two-year-old daughter Beatrice by Macca.
According to reports, Heather pocketed £5,000 ($9,200) for a threesome with a prostitute and a Saudi prince when she was in her 20s.
It is alleged she was also paid £6,400 ($11,785) for five sex sessions with arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
Ex-prostitute Denise Hewitt claimed she performed a lesbian sex act with Heather.
And former escort girl Petrina Montrose said Heather took part in an orgy with an Arab prince at the Dorchester hotel in London.
Lawyers for the 38-year-old ex-model said the News of the World's claims were "untrue and highly defamatory".
The statement added that legal proceedings would be launched against the paper after her divorce from Sir Paul, 63, was finalised.
The couple announced their separation last month after four years' marriage.
Her lawyers' statement said: "Heather is very distressed by this article.
"She continues to recover slowly from her revision amputation operation and has suffered weight loss, anxiety and sleeping problems as a result of the stress and anxiety of the break-up of her marriage.
"The coverage of this in certain newspapers has caused further distress and illness to her."
The newspaper stories were also called "vicious slurs".
The former model's leg was amputated below the knee after a collision with a police motorcycle as she crossed a road in 1993.
In April she underwent a revision amputation involving the re-attachment of muscle tissue to the bone.
'Intrusion'
She and Sir Paul married in 2002 and have one daughter, Beatrice.
A statement issued last month about their separation said they had "found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives".
Lawyers for the couple are currently negotiating the terms of their divorce settlement.
Last week Sir Paul said no
decisions had yet been made about custody of Beatrice, adding
"we have both agreed to work at all times in Beatrice's best
interests".
Terms of deal were not disclosed, but Hain said it expects the acquisition to add to its earnings during fiscal 2007.
The brand is named after musician Paul McCartney's first wife, who started her own company, Linda McCartney Foods.
The deal also includes a manufacturing
facility in Fakenham, England. Hain Celestial said it wants to
expand the Linda McCartney frozen meat-free business in Europe
and North America.
June
12, 2006 -- The Sun
It's Macca versus Mucca
Two more graphic publications
featuring Lady
Heather Mills McCartney emerged
yesterday - threatening to widen her rift with husband Sir Paul.
The ex-model posed for hard
core porn pictures in an X-rated US booklet crammed with snaps
of sex scenes.
In the 1988 book, titled Sexual Secrets, she is seen performing
a sex act, indulging in bondage and simulating full sex.
The volume - with many pictures too filthy to print in a family
newspaper - was published by New York firm Arlington and sold
worldwide through an erotic book club.
Meanwhile last night it emerged that Heather - who split from
Macca last month after four married years - was also pictured
in a top-shelf French magazine.
Last night rocker Sir Paul, 63 was bracing himself for the latest
revelations. A pal said: "This will be yet another bombshell
for him.
"Heather always insisted her model
ling past just included a sex guide. But
Paul's since been made aware just how pornographic some pictures
are. He has always thought the Press were out to get her and exaggerating
her colourful past - but now he just isn't sure. He's not sure
how much he can believe what she's saying - even about her alleged
past as a hooker.
"They're still talking as they have to think about their
two-year-old daughter Beatrice. But the conversations aren't as amicable
as they were."
The revelations about Lady McCartney have divided the family into
a series of camps.
Sir Paul's daughters Stella, 34, and 36-year-old Mary chatted
for more than two hours in Notting Hill, West London, yesterday.
Heather, who yesterday denied claims she once worked as a hooker,
has turned to her family for support, while ex-Beatle Macca has
been left devastated.
Back in the 1950s, a younger Paul McCartney put pen to paper and wrote a song about growing old. The song was a gift for his father on his 64th birthday.
It was later recorded by the Beatles in 1967. On 18 June 2006, Sir Paul may be able to answer some of the questions he posed in this well known Beatles classic 'When I'm 64'.
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One said: "He was absolutely stunned. But Heather has assured him that there is not a shred of truth in the allegations. He's heartbroken by what is being said about the mother of his daughter. He's shocked and hurt."
Heather, 38, had an emotional hour-long phone call with 63-year-old Macca yesterday. She emphatically denied reports she was once a prostitute who indulged in group and lesbian sex.
The friend added: "There were lots of tears. Heather was very distressed but she told him with absolute certainty the allegations are not true.
"Paul would never in a billion years have wished this on Heather and desperately wants to help her. They are both utterly devastated."
Heather's friend say the sordid claims about her past are pushing her to the brink.
They are deeply worried about her increasingly-fragile state of mind and say she is only kept going by two-year-old Beatrice, her daughter by Macca. One pal said: "If it wasn't for Bea, she'd be thinking 'What's the point of going on?'
"There are people out there determined to destroy every ounce of her credibility and self-esteem. Her world looks incredibly bleak at the moment. Heather is destroyed by what is going on. It is hideous. She is absolutely miserable and is crying her eyes out.
"Everyone is very fearful of her mental state. She is desperately unhappy. We're all very worried about what she might do. But she's a strong woman and we're relying on the fact she won't do anything stupid with a baby to think about."
According to a Sunday newspaper, Heather pocketed £5,000 ($9,212) for a threesome with a prostitute and a Saudi prince when she was in her 20s. It alleges she was also paid £6,400 ($11, 791) for five sex sessions with arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
Ex-prostitute Denise Hewitt claimed she performed a lesbian sex act with Heather. And former escort girl Petrina Montrose said Heather took part in an orgy in London's Dorchester hotel with an Arab prince.
Abdul Khoury, once Khashoggi's private secretary, also claimed he paid Heather to have sex with his billionaire boss in Spain and at a series of London hotels.
He said: "One of my duties was to look after Mr Khashoggi's guests, which would include looking after vice girls who were invited to see him.
"One was Heather Mills, who had sex with him on a number of occasions in return for money."
Heather strenuously denied the claims yesterday in a statement released through her lawyer. It read: "These are not new stories and were refuted by her lawyers four years ago when first raised.
"The sources clearly are a variety of unreliable persons who have been paid for these stories.
"The timing of the article is clearly designed to cause maximum hurt to Heather, her husband and family at this sensitive time."
The Mirror exclusively revealed last month that charity campaigner Heather was splitting from ex-Beatle Sir Paul, who is worth £825 million.
The couple, who are thrashing out a divorce settlement, still speak regularly on the phone and last week Heather visited him at his home in Peasmarsh, East Sussex.
Phillip Goodhand-Tait, one of Heather's oldest friends, last night said the allegations of prostitution were "very difficult to believe".
He added: "She has never had a conversation with me along the lines that she was afraid that something about her past might come out and I have known her for nearly 20 years.
"She was a glamour model. Are we saying people who have been glamour models in an earlier life have to have their pasts examined just because they are going through a painful break up?"
Asked if he believed Heather
should sue over the allegations, Phillip said: "I think that's
a decision only she and Paul can make - if they think it is worth
spending the money on lawyers."
Surely it's time to put Heather Mills's back catalogue in the remainder bin
The recently unearthed porn pictures of Lady Heather Mills McCartney from 1988 are indeed 'shocking'. In most of them she has a 'Limahl from Kajagoogoo' hairstyle. In one, she is having her stockings peeled off by a dead ringer for the lead singer from Big Country (complete with checked shirt with rolled-back sleeves). As if this were not 'depraved' enough, yet another shot shows Mills 'naked and smothered in baby oil', looking down with an expression on her face that suggests she is concentrating on a spot of ironing, although the caption breathlessly asserts that the snap was 'edited because it was too crude to print'. Why, you think: was it a really (gasp) big pile of ironing?
While the Sun slammed Mills's 'modelling assignment' for Die Freuden Der Liebe (The Joys of Love) as 'revolting', and 'bound to sicken Sir Paul', one would be very surprised if anybody, least of all a man who lived through the excesses of the Beatles, was sent into a moral tailspin by such lame soft-porn tat. In the same way, the rest of us, while nosy enough to look, would surely be more likely to think 'So what?' or even 'Good bod' than we are to explode in disgust and censure at what a silly pretty (broke) girl got up to with some strawberries and cream back in the late Eighties. Mills is known for having her own skewed agenda (rumours that she is trying to secure a £200m divorce settlement from McCartney, in order to make a sizable donation to her own landmine charity, puts a whole new spin on the concept of 'philanthropy'). However, that's beside the point. These photos were taken 18 years ago, when Mills was barely 20, and say absolutely nothing about the kind of person (good, bad, or otherwise) she is these days. Not that this will make a jot of difference in the latest trial by media. A case of give a dog a bad name, hang her, but smother her in baby oil first.
Ever since I saw those ancient pictures of Mills I've been trying to figure out why they leave such a bad (non-strawberry) taste in the mouth. Maybe it's because they represent how cruel the world can be about those areas of your life, those past selves, skins, you've struggled to leave behind. In some cases this is hilarious - it can be great sport to tease celebrities with the same old embarrassing photographs time and time again. At other times, it looks plain mean and spiteful.
Personally, I was already a bit weary of reading of Mills's 'shadowy past', all those quasi-racist allusions to her 'dating' Arabs, and now this - evidence that, back in the late Eighties, she did some icky porn shots. It was Mills's mistake not to confess to all this ages ago with her chin up (so to speak). Then again, it wasn't as if she snuck off to that photo studio to smother herself in baby oil during the time she was married to McCartney. Indeed, great gossip though it is, where is the real scandal, the moral angle, to any of this? Some might say it's arguable whether Mills circa 2006 should be pilloried for the behaviour of her 1988 self at all.
A friend once drunkenly moaned: 'I can't afford to be famous. I've misbehaved too much. People would be queuing around the block to sell stories about me.' It made me laugh, but in a roundabout way she was making an interesting point about fame's close relationship to shame, and how disingenuous the rest of us can be about it. Indeed, with the Heather Mills story, we find ourselves in classic 'Let he who casts the first stone' territory. After all, while I never starred in a porn shoot (nobody ever asked), I can't help but feel that if I started confessing to (and apologising for) all facets of misbehaviour, dating back 20 years, I would probably finish talking some time in 2010.
Bearing this in mind, wouldn't all of us, not just Mills, benefit from there being some kind of time limit on transgressions from the past? There should surely be a point where anybody, even 'scheming' Mills, is allowed to say, 'Oh no, I can't be held responsible for that incident any more. That mistake is stale, it has officially expired.' Maybe the rest of us should stop sniggering at Mills, and remember that the things that lead to your downfall could also be the things that made you interesting, helped you fight through and survive, in the first place. The things that, for good or ill, made you 'you'.
Sir Paul McCartney has told pals of his agony at revelations that estranged wife Heather was a £5,000-a-time hooker - and confided: "I hope the worst is now over."
The weary ex-Beatle, 63, has barely slept for fear of the sordid details coming out since The Sun last week published pictures of Lady Mucca cavorting in a German porn book.
In the past, his lawyers have preserved her dignity by blocking similar smutty tales.
(WARNING! sexually explicit material --continues)
June 11, 2006 -- The Guardian
Mills McCartney consults lawyers over rising tide of tabloid sleaze
stories
· Split leaves Beatle's
former wife vulnerable to media
· Sex guide pictures open floodgates to stories
Lawyers acting for Heather Mills McCartney yesterday moved to defend her from a series of newspaper stories about her past and said she would be taking advice about whether to sue.
This follows a week in which
her life before she met Sir Paul has
been trawled over in a number of tabloids, a frenzy which appears
to have been provoked by the announcement three weeks ago that
the couple were splitting up. News of the World devoted four pages
to a story about Mills McCartney, 38, and claims of past liaisons.
In a statement, her lawyers said: "These are not new stories
and were refuted by her lawyers four years ago when first raised.
"The sources clearly are a variety of unreliable persons who have been paid. The timing of the article is clearly designed to cause maximum hurt to Heather, her husband and family at this sensitive time."
Mills McCartney's lawyer, Stephen Taylor, told the Guardian that four years ago the News of the World had been threatening to print the allegations for three or four consecutive Sundays - but had not published. "We threatened legal action and that stopped it." Mr Taylor said he would today discuss taking legal action against the News of the World over the allegations with Mills McCartney .
A former executive at News International, which includes the Sun and News of the World, said yesterday that the papers had been reluctant to attack Mills McCartney when she was with the former Beatle, describing it as a classic example of editors holding back when afigure as powerful - and beloved by the public - was involved.
"There are a few people, and McCartney is one of them, whom editors are reluctant to have a real go at. If you attacked Heather, you attacked Paul and the public might not like that." The executive said it was not just that Sir Paul had the wealth to sue, it was that if he launched a public attack on News International, or another newspaper group, he could do serious harm to their sales.
The executive also suggested that Sir Paul knew all about the allegations against Mills McCartney and might even have spoken to Rupert Murdoch about them. "But now she has lost Paul's protection, it's gloves-off time."
Mark Stephens, a media expert with the law firm Finers Stephens Innocent, said newspapers had a tendency to "erode a person's reputation", making it harder for them to sue for libel because their good character - key in a libel trial - was slipping away. He said: "These allegations are intrusive and have no real public interest."
He said some celebrities were considered untouchable, "but stories are stored up for when they fall".
Max Clifford agreed that Mills McCartney's reputation was being "chipped away" by the tabloids. Since she had married Sir Paul, he said, he had received calls from South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Spain with "colourful stories". "I've been approached by famous people worried their names are going to be drawn into this and by other people with more stories. This is not going away any time soon."
In the four years of their
marriage, there was a steady flow of, stories criticising Mills
McCartney. Sir Paul himself spoke out to
deny that she had forced him to dye his hair or have plastic surgery,
or prodded him to ask for the Lennon-McCartney
credit to be reversed on Yesterday.
Beneath the sniping were darker rumours that she had a past she ought to be ashamed of. She has been the victim of a whispering campaign over her early years as a glamour model.
But in the weeks since her split with the pop superstar, the whispering has become full-voiced criticism, with claims about things that may or may not have happened up to 20 years ago. Last week the the Sun published explicit photographs of her in intimate poses with a man. Mills McCartney insisted the book was an "instructive" sex guide rather than pornography, but the floodgates were opening. The Mail on Sunday and Sunday Mirror carried interviews with the man.
Mr Taylor said: "This
is a ridiculous story. People will see that individuals are being
paid to peddle these allegations - what they are claiming is pretty
horrendous. It may be that the individuals are not worth suing
but the News of the World might be. She [Mills McCartney] doesn't
run into litigation, but she wants it known that these allegations
are false."
June 11, 2006 -- Sunday Mirror
EXCLUSIVE: I'M HEATHER'S PORN PICS LOVER
'SHE WAS SO BUXOM & BRAZEN AS IT WENT FROM FUN TO SLEAZY.. SHE MADE ME FEEL A PRUDE'
The male model who romped with Heather Mills- McCartney in an X-rated porn shoot says she was a sex-obsessed siren who wanted even more when the cameras stopped clicking.
Peter Wilson, who grew up in Liverpool just yards away from Heather's estranged husband Sir Paul, was booked to pose with the struggling glamour model in a seedy London studio.
This week, as the pictures from her shady past emerged, Heather insisted they were taken for a "lover's guide" sex education book.
But Peter says it was far more than that. He says Heather simulated graphic sex acts, licked whipped cream off his manhood, gobbled up an edible thong and bit into his lunchbox "like an apple".
Peter only learned that his 1988 co-star had gone on to become Lady Heather Mills McCartney when pictures from the "sex guide" were first published six days ago.
He adds: "She may be a vegetarian now, but she certainly liked her meat and two veg back then.
"And it certainly wasn't education. It was titillating b******s, cheap slap and tickle. We definitely crossed the line. It is ridiculous to say that this was just a shoot for an educational guide.
"I had no idea who she was. But it was my 48th birthday this week and my cousin rang me in Spain and told me, 'You're all over the papers with Heather Mills.'".... (WARNING! sexually explicit material -- continues)
Furious Sir Paul McCartney had no idea of wife Heather's pornographic past - and is stunned at the pictures.
Friends of Heather have insisted the former Beatle knew all about the pictures in the German publication Die Freuden der Liebe, published in 1988.
But Paul's close pals say this is totally untrue - and he has been left "dumb-struck" by how much of her seedy past she has concealed from him.
The superstar, 63, knew Heather, 38, had done topless and glamour modelling. But he was never told by his wife she posed for pornographic pictures.
A close friend revealed: "Paul is dumb-struck at the photos. Absolutely stunned.
"He has always been aware that Heather did glamour modelling when she was younger, but this is totally different.
"He finds it astonishing that the woman he married and who gave birth to his last child failed to tell him that she posed for pictures as explicit as these."
Macca is privately furious that Heather's camp tried to persuade the public that he had always known about the snaps.
He will not publicly attack her, but his attitude has now changed.
The friend continued: "Paul has always supported Heather, even in the split. But this has left him in a totally different state of mind over the separation."
Friends now fear any chance of an amicable divorce is gone.
How Lady Macca hid secret vice past from Sir Paul
Heather, the £5,000 ($9,212) hooker
The News of the World can reveal the secret vice past of Sir Paul McCartney's wife Heather.
In an investigation spanning Europe and the Middle East we have tracked down the former high-class hooker who partnered her for an orgy in London's Dorchester Hotel-and later became convinced that Heather's bisexual games weren't just an act for her kinky clients.
In sworn affidavits we have evidence from the private secretary who paid Heather for pleasuring his billionaire master.
And we have testimony from Denise Hewitt, the ex-wife of the heir to the Berkeley Homes empire, that she joined Heather for lesbian games and group sex when they were both London prostitutes.
We can identify the madam who booked many of Heather's rich and famous clients for a 20 per cent fee.
And we reveal that Heather's vice trade wasn't simply a moment of madness in her life. It went on for years.
Heather, now 38, is locked in a split from ex-Beatle Paul and his £825 million ($1.5 billion) fortune, Our revelations will have a shattering effect on her negotiations for a settlement.
Foursome
Her secret sex games with international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi took place in Spain's Marbella and at the Lanesborough, Hilton, Dorchester and Grosvenor House hotels in London's Mayfair.
She was paid amounts totalling £2,000 ($3,865) in sterling plus another $8,000-currently about £4,400. But this was just a fraction of a secret fortune she amassed.
Heather earned a further £1,000 ($1,842) for a foursome with two other escort girls and an Arab prince at the Dorchester on London's Park Lane.
A former escort girl named Petrina Montrose, who joined Heather for the Dorchester hotel orgy, told the News of the World: "Heather was a familiar face in our business.
"I worked with her when we were both hired for a party thrown by an Arab prince at the Dorchester."
Naked
The 37-year-old, who now lives in Essex, said that she and Heather had been booked by a girl named Ros Ashley who also modelled swimwear under the single professional name 'Ashley'.
Petrina continued: "It
was a really lavish affair. There was a buffet of Lebanese food
and Ashley was already there with a group of about six working
girls, including Heather.... (WARNING! sexually
explicit material -- continues)
June 11, 2006
-- The Guardian
McCartney's wife denies allegations
Heather Mills McCartney has denied allegations she was an expensive prostitute who engaged in group and lesbian sex.
The News of the World reported the 38-year-old estranged wife of Beatle legend Sir Paul was paid thousands of pounds for nights of passion with wealthy Arabs when she was in her 20s.
She was accused of taking part in a threesome with a fellow prostitute and a Saudi Royal for £5,000 ($9,212), making a total of £6,400 ($11, 791) for other sessions with an arms dealer, and claiming she could make up to £10,000 ($18,424) a night.
However, a statement issued by her lawyers, said: "Heather Mills McCartney strongly denies the allegations in the News of the World.
"These are not new stories and were refuted by her lawyers four years ago when first raised.
"The sources clearly are a variety of unreliable persons who have been paid for these stories.
"The timing of the article is clearly designed to cause maximum hurt to Heather, her husband and family at this sensitive time."
The McCartneys announced their decision to split last month.
Earlier this week, Lady McCartney was featured posing in a series of topless shots from a 1988 German publication, which the Sun called "obscene and pornographic", but which she said were a "lover's guide".
Sir Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills McCartney, will wake this morning to an onslaught of revelations in the nation's red top newspapers about her former life.
The most damaging allegation about the former model is that she was a high-class prostitute who had sex with an arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi, and was paid up to £10,000 a night for sleeping with rich men.
Under the headline "Heather the £5,000 hooker", the News of the World claims that the anti-land mines campaigner amassed a "secret fortune" from sleeping with clients.
The latest revelations seem to be part of what media watchers say is a deliberately orchestrated attempt to discredit the former model, who has always had a difficult relationship with the press.
The Sun published pictures last week of Lady McCartney posing naked for what they described as a German "hard core porn" book. Her publicist attempted to play down the images by saying that the book was a sex educational manual.
The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror newspapers carry interviews this weekend with Peter Wilson, the man who posed with her in the photographs. He describes the book that they simulated sex acts for as "cheap, titillating and sleazy" and says that Lady McCartney was "unashamed and unabashed".
The People, meanwhile, is sympathetic to Sir Paul's estranged wife who is reported to be still in pain following an operation on her amputated leg. The story reveals that she has lost 14 pounds since the separation.
This is the latest in a string of increasingly lurid stories to emerge about 38-year-old Lady McCartney, who separated from Sir Paul six weeks ago and is now involved in a high-profile divorce from the 63-year-old former Beatle, which involves custody of their daughter, Beatrice.
The couple married in June
2002 and their daughter was born a year later. The couple are
currently negotiating the size of Lady McCartney's divorce settlement
from Sir Paul, who is thought to be worth more than £800
million ($1.5 billion). Sir Paul has repeatedly said he is concerned
for his wife and that the couple speak several times a day.
June 11, 2006
-- Observer
Tabloids wallow in Lady Mucca's misfortunes
Against all odds, you begin to feel strangely sorry for Heather McCartney. She may not be best beloved of Fleet
Street's red-top rabble rousers - or, famously, of Macca's daughter,
Stella, but even 'Lady Mucca', didn't quite
deserve the 'hard core porn shame' the Sun dumped on her last
week, with extra dollops of cant and sanctimony for luck. It's
odd how 'lurid sex acts' - featuring whips, edible underwear and
whipped cream - don't generate the requisite outrage in such ludicrous
surroundings.
Remember (a) that the shock and horror generated here came from
an 18-year-old German photo book so obscure that the Bun had only
just tumbled to its existence; that (b) Miss Mills was still a
teenager at shooting time; that (c) until she lost a leg at 23,
she was a very successful Sun page-three girl; that (d) the editor
who promoted her left journalism to launch a sensationally unsuccessful
TV channel, featuring much lurid late-night jiggling; and that
(e) the Sun's owner, Mr Murdoch, slyly nets millions a year from
carrying hard-core stuff on his Sky satellite.
In which circumstances, perhaps, over-much hypocritical Bunnery
about 'images too explicit to print in a family newspaper' and
scenes bound to 'outrage Sir Paul and
his army of loyal fans' don't quite make it to the high ground.
If Heather 'looks like a madam in a sleazy brothel', then one
or two slings and arrows could well head the way of the brothel
management committee.
But at least the Sun - flourishing the lost German male model
in question with inevitable tales of marathon sex sessions - winks
while it wallows. At least it (half) knows when it's sending itself
up. There's no such saving grace at the Mail, clearing two pages
on day two to trawl through the Bunfight again and ask whether
'any judge' would give her custody of two-year-old Beatrice after studying "The Joys of Love" through
112 pages of pictures?
Maybe, for reasons obscure, the Mail sees a Lady Macbeth, not
a Lady Macca, here. Maybe poison is the inalienable order of the
morning. But when we left the former Ms Mills a few weeks ago
after the break-up, she was ill and devastated (according to some
some of her red-top pursuers). Could someone now please explain
how the switch has flicked from compassion to Cruella De Vil so
brutally fast? And how poor little Beatrice is supposed to grow
up unscathed by such bile?
June
11, 2006 -- The People
HEATHER SO THIN
Thin and gaunt, Sir Paul's estranged wife cuts a lonely figure as she plays with their tiny daughter on the beach Heather can't sleep, can't eat.. she's lost 14lbs.. pals say she's going through absolute hell
Playing tenderly with her little daughter on a beach, Sir Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills cuts a gaunt and lonely figure.
In her first proper outing since the couple's high-profile separation six weeks ago, the former model tries to bring a little normality back to her tormented life.
But the physical and emotional scars caused by the shock break-up have clearly taken their toll on the once radiant anti-landmines campaigner.
Fellow day-trippers to the beach near her Sussex home hardly recognised one of the world's most famous women as she played in the sand with her excited daughter Beatrice, two.
And a worried friend said: "This has been the worst time of Heather's life."
He said 38-year-old Heather's weight had plummeted by 14 pounds - and she can't eat or sleep properly.
To make matters worse, there have been complications with her amputated leg and she needed a wheelchair to get to the beach.
And she has been left reeling by the publication of erotic pictures taken when she was a naive 18-year-old.
The pal said: "Heather doesn't know who to turn to at the moment because she can't trust anyone.
"She has become a virtual recluse in her home as she contemplates her future without Sir Paul. Basically Heather's on the verge of a breakdown - but she is determined to stay strong for Beatrice even though there is no chance of a reconciliation."
Heather - who lost her left leg below the knee after being hit by a police motorcycle in 1993 - has shunned the limelight since the split with the 63-year-old Beatle legend was announced.
She first fled to a bolthole in remote Slovenia as her life became absolute hell, say pals.
Now, with her weight plunging to below8st, she has hidden herself away at her £2 million ($3.6 million) beach home in Hove.
The friend added: "She needs time and space to think what is best for her daughter but is in a bad way at the moment.
"Her weight has dropped because Heather has lost her appetite through all the worry. Normally she loves her food but she can't face anything.
At the best of times she looks skinny but now Heather looks tired and gaunt.
"She can't even get to sleep because she's lying awake at night playing everything over in her head."
Our exclusive pictures show just how dramatically Heather's weight has crashed.
After removing her green floral dress to reveal a black bikini decorated with cherries, Heather's ribs are clearly visible through her skin.
She hid her tired and drawn eyes behind a large pair of sunglasses.
And she had to use a wheelchair to get to the beach because a recent operation on her left leg is taking longer to heal than expected.
An onlooker told The People: "She unfolded the wheelchair from the boot of her car and wheeled herself and Beatrice - who was sat on her lap - down to the sand. She then attached her prosthetic limb and walked across the sand with Beatrice until they found a place to settle.
"With just a beach mat, a sandwich box and an inflatable aid for Beatrice, they played in the sand like any other mum and young daughter."
Friends say the beach outing - with not a security man in sight - was Heather's way of trying to put a brave face on her anguish to protect her daughter.
And as the couple's lawyers thrashed out the terms of the final divorce settlement, one pal revealed: "It is so hard for her.
"She's still wearing her wedding ring but there is no chance of a reconciliation.
"No decisions have yet been taken about the custody arrangements for Beatrice.
"But Heather will never give up Beatrice - her daughter means the world to her. She could be offered £25million in a divorce to hand their daughter over but she never would.
"Heather went through so much to give birth."
The friend also poured scorn on reports that Heather will try to cash in on her fame in the US.
The pal said: "Stories about her going to America to tell all on a chat show are complete nonsense.
"Yes, it's true Heather has been offered opportunities in the States.
"But she is staying in the UK - Beatrice is her priority right now."
Sir Paul met Heather at an awards ceremony in 1999 and they wed at a fairytale castle in Ireland in 2002.
Little Beatrice was born two years later.
Despite the "amicable split", Sir Paul is still trying to help Heather rebuild her life. The friend said: "He talks to her on the phone every day. He's trying to encourage Heather to eat and sleep properly but at the moment she isn't listening to anyone."
And referring to the raunchy photos of Heather and a male model - taken from a German book - the pal said: "Sir Paul knew all about the shoot.
"He has seen the pictures and they haven't shocked him in the slightest.
"As far as he's concerned she was a gullible teenager desperate to get a head start in the modelling profession."
Now all that matters for Heather is the welfare and happiness of her little girl Beatrice.
The source said: "Heather's in a bad place right now.
"But those few precious
hours on the sand with her daughter will give her the strength
and inspiration to look forwards, not backwards."
Heather Mills and the truth about her past as a professional party girl
The pneumatic blonde who had arrived at the small studio in north London for a lingerie model casting certainly had all the required attributes, and was not shy about showing them off.
Wiggling unprompted out of her clothes, she performed an impromptu striptease for the video camera, informing the photographer as she did so that the company would do well to hire her as she would be famous someday.
She got the job, and within a few weeks, the model's shapely form could be seen in the 'Silver Rose' lingerie catalogue, modelling underwear of the variety largely found in the seedier boutiques of London's Soho.
Nor was it the only 'modelling' job for the ambitious young woman that year - indeed, it was a particularly busy period in the life of the then 19-year-old Heather Mills: around the same time, she was enjoying paid employment in Germany, shooting a series of largely pornographic pictures for a German sex manual entitled, perhaps a tad misleadingly, Die Freuden Der Liebe( The Joys of Love).
To cap it all, as she told photographer Jeff Kaine during her Silver Rose photoshoot, she was also busy 'working' in Paris. It was not photographic work, mind you. Just something that was "a bit of fun, and a bit of money". "You've got to do what's needed to get on in life," she added, with a knowing wink.
As we know, Heather Mills did become famous - perhaps even more famous than that pushy, ambitious 19-year-old could ever have imagined.
Whether she had considered at the time that her somewhat unorthodox patterns of employment might come back to haunt her is a matter for speculation, but this week, the fallout from those early years was accelerating even faster than she could perhaps ever have envisaged.
Following publication in a British tabloid of the German 'sex manual' pictures (those that were considered inoffensive enough at least) the Mail can today reveal that other, more shocking skeletons have started to rattle: by the end of the week, negotiations were taking place for the publication of two, perhaps three explosive revelations about Lady Heather Mills McCartney's past.
Even by the dramatic standards of most showbusiness relationship meltdowns, it is a mind-boggling turn of events - one which has prompted Heather to telephone a number of her trusted friends this week to tearfully confide that she believes "they are all out to get me" - although who 'they' are, exactly, was not made clear.
What is clear is that the carefully crafted (if a little shaky) public image of Sir Paul McCartney's 38-year-old second wife seems dangerously close to falling apart at the seams.
Much, of course, has been written about Heather's peculiar talent for rewriting history, and the at times apparently yawning gap between her version of the facts, and others.
What has remained in the realm of conjecture is Heather's exact mode of employment for some years in her early twenties
Only this week, in what could be seen as unhappy coincidence of timing, it emerged that Heather had quietly paid out £5,000 ($9,212) in damages to a former schoolfriend, who said she invented a story for her autobiography in which she claimed they were once held hostage for three days by their paedophile swimming coach.
Other claims made by the model, including her deprived childhood, her months spent homeless and the exact nature of her 'successful' modelling career have also been called into question over the years.
What has remained in the realm of conjecture (at times intense conjecture, it must be said) is Heather's exact mode of employment for some years in her early twenties.
It is this that looks set to be placed under a bright spotlight in coming days: Heather will undoubtedly be distressed to learn that arch-publicist Max Clifford was, at the end of last week, in touch with a number of women alongside whom Heather 'partied' in the late eighties and early nineties.
As he told the Mail: "I think we can expect more details of Heather's colourful past to emerge. Previously people have been very worried about how far to go but after the pictures that have been unveiled this week it makes things a lot easier. There is a lot more detail to come out."
One can only imagine what sort of 'detail' this might be: after all, a number of characters have already emerged in the past to describe Heather's place at the heart of a super-rich international beau monde.
One of them, Joanna Heron, now 42, revealed how she and Heather had been employed as decorative 'flower girls' by Arab millionaires and how, on one occasion, she had seen one well-known Arab businessman hand Heather an envelope containing £2000 ($3,685) in cash after a weekend of hedonistic partying.
Another friend from those days, Ros Ashley, a former long term mistress of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, has described how a young Heather had frequently enjoyed the 24-carat embrace of oil-rich Arabs and arms dealers: first-class travel, parties in sumptuous hotel suites and private villas, gifts of couture clothes and expensive jewellery.
Now a happily married mother of five, she was this week in negotiations to sell her story once more, this time, the Mail understands, with 'no holds barred'. So too are another couple of young 'party girls' with whom Heather spent a substantial amount of time in those heady days.
'What Heather does is give her men sex, sex and then even more sex'
Of course there have long been rumours that Lady Heather's past was rather murky - rumours that gathered so much currency that in June 2000 she took the unusual step of giving an interview, stating cataegorically that she had never been a high class prostitute.
"At every turn I'm being told of vile allegations and lies against me," she said. "These slurs are so awful that they are stopping people supporting my charities."
As the photographer who spoke to the Mail this week Jeff Paine recalls however, Heather was once rather less horrified by 'vile' suggestions about her status. As he chatted to the aspiring lingerie model as she filmed her casting video for the Silver Rose catalogue, she revealed that she had been working in Paris.
"She gave the impression that it was modelling work. But shortly afterwards I bumped into a friend of hers who said she was a bit more of a professional party girl," he says. "The next time I saw Heather I was taking the actual pictures for the catalogue and I said to her 'I've rumbled you, you haven't been modelling in Paris at all, you cheeky girl.' She just laughed and said it was all just a bit of fun."
At the time Heather was just one of many glamour models who enjoyed the international party scene. As Jeff Paine recalls. "Heather was one of dozens, to be honest. But even then she stood out. She had a sensational figure but also a potent sexual aura which she was not ashamed to use."
Many other men can testify to Heather's peculiarly potent sexual magnetism, like her first husband Alfie Karmal, who met her in a cocktail bar when she was in her late teens. He told the Mail this week that his relationship with Heather was an 'ugly chapter' of his life that he was now anxious to put behind him.
It was sex too that fuelled her relationship with the multi-millionaire George Kazan, a weathy Arab businessman based in Paris who kept Heather as his mistress for several months in the early nineties.
As an old contact from the time reveals: "What Heather does is give her men sex, sex and then even more sex - anywhere and everywhere".
It was this sexual magneticism - some would call it athleticism - that so ensnared Sir Paul. It is well known that he first laid eyes on a then 31-year-old Heather at the annual Pride of Britain awards in May 1999, which he was attending in order to present an award in the name of his late wife Linda, who had died just over a year earlier.
What has, perhaps, not been told is the intriguing story of their early courtship. As a source reveals: "When Paul met Heather for the first time he had not had a physical relationship with anyone for quite some time. He had been in deep mourning for the death of his wife for many many months. He was simply blown away by Heather," the source says.
"But Heather told him that it just wasn't 'appropriate' as he was in mourning. Paul was devastated and pursued her relentlessly. They went on a number of platonic dates until Paul had become hugely in thrall to her. The simple fact is that Paul was sexually besotted with her. That is why, when people told him that they felt the pair of them were not compatible long term, he was unable to listen."
You cannot ultimately create a new past, however hard you try
Another friend offers a revealing insight into the singer's mindset: "Paul has always had a rather simplistic Madonna/whore view of women. In Linda he had a Madonna. In Heather he was delighted to discover he could have both prototype - a passionate campaigner and gutsy girl who was equally passionate in the bedroom."
Such a package, however, does not make for the easiest of lives long term. This week, as Sir Paul divides his time between his north London townhouse and the Peasmarsh country estate he is painfully aware of the mounting speculation about his estranged wife's past.
Indeed the 63-year-old singer is said to still be reeling from the publication of the photoshoots - although not, it emerges, for the reasons you might think.
As one well-placed source reveals: "Of course Paul is shocked and upset about the photos of Heather, but not because he's making a moral judgement about them. Paul was an Beatle for goodness sake - he's been around and he's lived a colourful life, especially in his early days.
"The thing that has been very very difficult for him has been confronting the fact that the integrity of his marital bond was not what he thought it was. The fact that Heather could not be honest with him is a betrayal of his values and everything he believed about the relationship. His main refrain has been 'why couldn't she just have told me?'" There have, the Mail understands, been a flurry of telephone calls this week between the singer and his representatives as they speculate about the possibility of further distressing revelations.
What then, finally, of Heather herself? According to friends, she alternates between wounded distress and anger, believing there to be a witchhunt against her. Heather has told friends that she finds it 'more than a little coincidental' that the long buried German pornographic pictures have re-emerged only now, as the couple prepare to embark on a divorce.
"She sees this as the first shot across the bows, not from Paul himself, but from people close to him. Instead of feeling mortified she's angry. She absolutely feels she has done nothing to deserve this. There is a big element of her thinking 'you b*****ds,'" a friend reveals.
Perhaps this is why, earlier this week, Heather could be seen with her lawyer arriving in her car at the Peasmarsh home of her estranged husband, only to leave around twenty minutes later, apparently furious to find that he was not in (he was staying at the house in north London).
Her spokeswoman Anya Noakes, meanwhile, was anxious to pour oil on troubled waters. "Paul would not have wished this on his wife in a million years. He cares for her a great deal. They both want this sorted out nicely for the sake of their daughter, Beatrice."
As we have seen, given the events of recent days, and given those insistently rattling skeletons, it is hard to imagine this happening.
Amid this febrile, difficult atmosphere, it is, finally, instructive to visit Heather's glossy website. Notably, its 'Facts & Fiction' section, dedicated to exploding the 'common inaccuracies' about Heather, has not been touched for more than a year. It may, however, require amending in the coming weeks.
As Heather Mills has discovered,
while you can create a new life for yourself, you cannot ultimately
create a new past, however hard you try.
June 9, 2006 -- UTV
Heather
Mills denies interview rumours
Heather Mills
McCartney has denied reports
she is to give a tell-all interview about her marriage split.
The 38-year-old was said to be in discussions with ITV1's Sir
Trevor McDonald and CNN chat show host Larry King.
But today her spokeswoman insisted she will not be commenting on her break-up with the former Beatle.
Lawyers for the couple are currently negotiating the terms of their divorce settlement, she added.
It will include custody arrangements for their two-year-old daughter, Beatrice.
"Contrary to recent erroneous press reports, Heather Mills McCartney will not be giving any interviews or commenting in relation to her pending divorce from her husband," her spokeswoman said in a statement.
"This is a private matter and the interests of their child are paramount.
"Her lawyers are discussing terms with the lawyers for her husband."
Last week Sir Paul, 63, said no decisions have yet been made about custody of Beatrice, adding that "we have both agreed to work at all times in Beatrice`s best interests".
The McCartneys announced their decision to split three weeks ago.
A spokesman for the former Beatle said they are still speaking and their relationship remains amicable.
Heather was said to be considering
a Larry King interview after appearing on his US show several
times in the past.
June
9, 2006 -- Contact Music
McCARTNEY:
'I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT MILLS'
Sir Paul McCartney is furious
with the media's treatment of his estranged wife Heather Mills in the light of her alleged former career
in "porn". It was reported in British newspaper The
Sun this week that the animal rights campaigner had posed in "pornographic"
German book Die Freuden Der Liebe (The Joys Of Love ) in 1988.
But the former Beatle insists his relationship with Mills remains
"very amicable", and claims the media backlash sparked
by the revelations is simply "cruel".
He tells a friend, "I can't believe the cruelty towards her.
Heather has been and will continue to be an important part of
my life. There's nothing in her past I don't know about. Nothing."
The rocker's spokesperson confirms, "Paul and Heather are
still speaking and it's very amicable." McCartney and Mills
- who gave birth to their baby Beatrice in
2003 - split last month after four years of marriage.
For the second time since announcing his marriage breakdown last month, Paul McCartney has spoken up for his estranged wife, Heather, telling friends: "I'm really worried about her."
The pop legend's remarks came in the wake of a media storm over the split. Shortly after the separation was made public, the beleaguered charity campaigner left for a break in Slovenia. As she flew out 38-year-old Heather was pictured looking pale and leaning on a crutch, following an operation on her amputated leg.
Sources close to the couple have dismissed rumours of a custody battle, revealing that Paul and the former model will raise their two-year-old daughter Beatrice jointly. Heather - who'd feared she would never be a mother after several miscarriages - is described as having "an amazing bond" with the toddler, which the singer would be reluctant to break.
The ex-Beatle is also said to be particularly anxious about the effect of the break up and ensuing publicity on the toddler. "Beatrice isn't a baby any more," said a pal. "She can tell when Mummy's upset and Paul is naturally very concerned."
Despite the plans for a divorce,
there is clearly a lot of affection remaining between the couple,
who have daily telephone conversations. "Under the circumstances
we're fine," said Paul, who still wears his wedding ring.
"We're talking, we're sorting stuff out, and we're making
the best of it. I care for her very deeply."
Concerned Sir Paul McCartney phones under-fire wife Heather up to six times a day to comfort her amid the storm over her erotic photo.
The pop legend, 63 rallied to her defence after revealing the row has left her a wreck.
He
told pals: "It's almost like a witchhunt. I'm really worried
about her.
"She's in pieces over this and I wish people could see she's really different from the person she's portrayed as."
Sir Paul is also said to be "fraught with worry" about the effect on their daughter Beatrice, two. One of Heather's friends said: "Beatrice isn't a baby any more. She can tell when Mummy's upset and Paul's naturally very concerned."
And the enduring affection between the couple was clear as Sir Paul - who still wears his wedding ring - told pals at a get-together: "There's still a lot between us and there always will be."
Heather, 38, insists pictures which she posed for 1988 German book Die Freuden der Liebe were merely an educational lovers' guide.
And her estranged husband dismissed claims they had left him "shocked beyond belief".
He told friends: "There's nothing in her past I don't know about. Nothing. I knew she'd done the pictures before we married. It was such a long time ago."
Charity campaigner Heather, 38, has had difficulty eating and sleeping since the couple's split - exclusively revealed in the Daily Mirror last month.
Many critics have since had their knives out for her. And the furore as the 1988 photos of her in clinches with a model appeared in a downmarket newspaper have further fuelled claims the divorce would be one of the most bitter in pop.
But Sir Paul - snapped in the early hours as he returned to his home in St John's Wood, North-West London, from a night out with friends - insists they are still friendly.
He told a source: "Under the circumstances we're fine. We're talking, sorting stuff out and making the best of it."
But he added: "I can't believe the cruelty towards her. Heather will continue to be an important part of my life."
He and his estranged wife have also ridiculed claims they are set for a bitter custody battle over Beatrice.
Heather's friend said: "Rumours about him getting sole custody or fighting her in the courts are ridiculous. They haven't even got to the stage of discussing it yet.
"Bea's birth was traumatic for Heather and the bond she has with her is amazing.
Paul wouldn't want to take her away and they're going to agree joint custody."
Macca has also been helping his wife get over complications following an op on her amputated leg.
Her friend added: "She's not recovering well and she may have to go back into hospital.
"Paul's trying to do whatever he can to make it easier for her."
Macca's spokesman confirmed last night: "Paul and Heather are still speaking and it's very amicable.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -- yes, that Paul-- the Beatle, helped
Fidelity Investments win the 2006 EMMA award from the PMA (Promotional
Marketing Assn) for Best Overall & Live Event: Tour with the
theme Hitting a High Note.
Stakeholders involved included:
CAMPAIGN: The Music Lives Foundation
AGENCY: Arnold Worldwide
CLIENT: Fidelity Investments
PARTNER: Sir Paul McCartney
The Music Lives Foundation raises awareness and funding for music
education programs in schools throughout the U.S. according to
info on the PROMO Magazine website case study -- here's a link
to the full recap:Hitting a High Note. Music lives Hollywood
notes that it's not too late to be involved in this project go
to http://www.musiclives.org/donate.htm
to donate $40 and get your commemorative MUSIC LIVES(SM) bracelet!
Go to http://www.musiclives.org/ -- we especially
like the web page which has the horizontal strings on it -- you
can move your mouse over the strings and yes MAKE MUSIC ...fun!
Congrats to Fidelity for it's EMMA award and keep up the good
work. The great news is that the program is not just a promotional
effort but an ongoing nonprofit that has been set up in conjunction
with the effort and will hopefully live on forever!
The 63-year-old
Beatles legend, whose beloved first missus Linda
died in 1998 aged just 56, looked "extremely tired"
as he visited the Liverpool Performing Arts school.
It was his first public engagement since The Sun unearthed pornographic pictures of Heather Mills McCartney - mother of his two-year-old daughter Beatrice.
But despite his exhaustion, the rocker was determined not to miss the long-standing appointment and spent four hours with pupils.
Mark Featherstone-Witty, Sir Paul's business partner and chief executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, said the star was clearly struggling.
He said: "It was the lowest I've seen him since Linda died, as you would expect. Obviously they are totally different circumstances, but he looked extremely tired and worn out with the whole situation.
"He is going through a bad patch as everyone knows - but despite that he is trying to continue a normal life.
"Inevitably he is still speaking to Heather, they have a child together and have to work that out.
"His daughter Stella and his family have been extremely loyal.
"They are a terribly close-knit family and I know he has great support from them and his robust inner circle of friends.
"Paul may be well-off, but there are certain things money can't protect you against - especially death and relationships. He only flew here for the day and he returned home in the evening - but the students were thrilled he could still make it."
Mr Featherstone-Witty added: "I hope there are no more revelations, but I fear there will be."
Sir Paul, who split from 38-year-old Heather last month after four married years, held one-on-one masterclass sessions with nine songwriting students in their last year at the Liverpool college.
It was an annual event which Macca delivers to each final-year songwriting class.
One of the former pupils he tutored was cyber sensation Sandi Thom, whose single "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)" is at Number One. Speaking at the LIPA tutorial on Tuesday, Sir Paul said: "I'm dead chuffed that we've helped Sandi to achieve her dream."
The pop king spent around 20 minutes with each pupil listening to their work and playing along with them on an acoustic guitar.
One of the lucky pupils who received his expert advice was Matthew Murphy, lead singer of The Wombats.
His band are looking to follow Sandi's success after becoming the first ever unsigned group from the UK to play in China.
Mr Featherstone-Witty added: "Sir Paul has an amazing ear and it truly is a charming kind of image. He gives the students individual advice on what he thinks of their material.
"And he has a genuine interest in how all of the pupils get on.
"The students never ask about his private life.
"They are there to learn from one of the best songwriters of all time.
"They are not interested in anything else apart from the music."
The Sun revealed this week how Heather had posed for pornographic pictures in a German book published in 1988.
Lynda, 58, who has appeared in everything from Z Cars and Angels to All Creatures Great And Small and Murder In Suburbia during a 35-year career, is still best known for being "mum" in the Oxo ads.
She will receive a Companionship of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts from Sir Paul McCartney at the event on July 28.
Since she first got involved with Paul McCartney I've been approached by several ladies, all with colourful stories about her past.
These calls have come from as far as South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Marbella and various parts of Britain. They also involve one or two rich and famous people.
Various articles over the past few years have been extremely appetising for Fleet Street's finest, but made them increasingly aware that the main course was just out of reach for them. They knew a lot more than they printed, but that's about to change I think.
McCartney's power and money has given Heather protection, but that has changed. Since Monday's Sun story, the fear that editors and lawyers have demonstrated to me concerning Heather's past has disappeared and the phones have been red hot from journalists wanting to take up where they left off in the past.
I've been in Marbella in recent weeks and journalists from three national newspapers are currently on their way to do interviews down here with some of Heather's old friends and acquaintances.
We know a lot about Heather
Mills McCartney, but it could well be that in the days ahead we're
going to know even more.
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