Posted on 10/24/2006 11:48:06 AM PDT by Risha
Heather Mills McCartney Sues Newspapers Oct 24 11:13 AM US/Eastern
By TARIQ PANJA Associated Press Writer
Heather Mills McCartney's lawyers said Tuesday she is suing two newspapers over "false, damaging and immensely upsetting" stories surrounding her divorce from Paul McCartney. The law firm Mishcon de Reya named the Daily Mail and London's Evening Standard as the subject of legal proceedings, adding that a suit will also be filed against The Sun.
Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard, had no immediate response.
Mills McCartney had been vilified in the media and was now being stalked by photographers, the firm said. It alleged that other newspapers had also printed false statements but the three listed would be the focus of the lawsuit.
"She cannot sue _ for now, at least _ every single newspaper that has published false, damaging, and immensely upsetting statements about her. She should not thereby be taken to have accepted that these statements are true," the statement read.
The McCartney divorce has become the most sensational marital breakup since Prince Charles and Princess Diana parted ways a decade ago, sparking immense rivalry in the British press for the best scoop.
Last week, the Daily Mail splashed its front page with what appeared to be legal papers drafted by Mills McCartney's lawyers against the former Beatle that alleged drug use, drunkenness, callousness about his wife's amputated leg, indifference to her pain, and even an assault with a broken wine glass.
Mills McCartney's lawyers said British media claims that she has been offered a $56 million settlement by her husband are false and "the truth is that no settlement offer, in any amount, has been made."
"She is pursued everywhere she goes. She is stalked by press photographers, who congregate outside her home and chase after her in cars _ regardless of her safety or the safety of her daughter," her lawyers said.
Mishcon de Reya issued a copy of a letter, apparently from The Mail on Sunday's investigations editor Dennis Rice, offering Heather's sister Fiona a "substantial sum" for information about the divorce.
It said the letter was hand-delivered and promised anonymity.
"It requires no imagination to conclude what kind of information was being sought from our client's closest confidante, nor why the assurance of confidentiality was believed to be necessary," the statement said. "We ask on behalf of our client for the media, as a matter of common decency, please now to show some restraint."
I hate that idiot golddigger. I also feel terrible for Sir Paul because he likely married her in grief after losing his true love, she just wanted to take him for all he's worth.
You guys are killing me!! Ha!!
Ditto.
He was not thinking with no pre-nup. He was thinking with no brain.
Have you seen the footage of her taking video as these events unfold? And she claims she has video of Paul's assaults on her.
LOL! And who was the cameraman?
When this is over, she'll change her name to Eileen to avoid the media.
Props to her.
..or move to China and become Irene.
Here's one for ya... Bill Wyman, ex bass player for the Rolling Stones:
At age 47, Bill Wyman began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. (If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandfather.)
"Like my granddad once told me, "If you do your thinking with your short leg, you won't have much to stand on.""
Granddad was no fool.
I always thought that was rumour. Aren't there statutory rape laws in the UK?
What warped people!
Bill was just emulating Jimmy Page, who once had a thing for 14 year old girls...
lol
Perhaps the surveillance cameras captured these "presumed" shots?
I strenuously disagree.
He was clearly in love with Heather Mills.
First of all, she was 34 when they got married.
If McCartney was in it for "young stuff" he could have easily have married a much-hotter-than-Heather 20 year old with two legs who was willing to sign a pre-nup that capped any potential divorce settlement at a few million pounds.
He obviously married for love.
34 is young when you are 60 and then some.
He was exactly 60, not "and then some."
But you're still making a completely unjusitifiable assumption.
He left his younger girlfriend to marry his first wife, who was a divorcee with a child and was five years older than his girlfriend.
He stayed married to her until she died at the age of 57.
So clearly there was no hint of any predilection for younger women for 30 years.
If he was truly on the hunt for a youth alone he could easily choose from thousands of beautiful women a decade younger than Heather Mills, and almost every one would be more than happy to sign a prenup.
Heather Mills is a mature woman in her mid-30s, a divorcee like Linda McCartney was, employed in the fashion industry like Linda was and an outspoken activist like Linda was.
He clearly married her because he loved her for a lot of qualities that reminded him of Linda - if he was, as you slanderously claim, out for "young stuff" he could have any number of younger, prettier women who would have signed documents to keep his fortune intact.
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