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Full McCartney divorce settlement to be published
2008-03-18
Heather Mills on Tuesday lost a bid to stop the court judgment settling financial details of her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney from being published in full. Lord Justice Nicholas Wall and Lord Justice Matthew Thorpe refused her leave to appeal against the ruling that the judgment should be made public. Full details are now likely to be published online. On Monday, London's High Court ordered McCartney to pay his estranged wife 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious divorce battle. McCartney, 65, married the former model and charity campaigner Mills, 40, in 2002 but they separated four years later, blaming media intrusion into their private lives. They have a daughter, Beatrice, aged four. The settlement was only a fifth of the sum she had sought but still gave her the equivalent of about $34,000 for each day of her four-year marriage to the pop icon. Mills told reporters on Monday she was appealing against publication "because the judgment involves private secure matters of my daughter." (Additional reporting by Andrew Hough, editing by Tim Pearce)
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