Sir Paul McCartney today reacted furiously to claims by his estranged wife that he attacked her during their stormy four-year marriage. Heather Mills, 38, accuses him of being domineering, abusive and frequently drunk or high on drugs. She says he was violent four times during furious rows in which he: •Stabbed her in the arm with a broken wine glass leaving her scarred. • Shoved her, sending her flying over a coffee table. • Grabbed her around the throat. • Pushed her into a bath while she was pregnant. The allegations contained in 13 pages of leaked divorce papers were branded lies by the 64-year-old star. The former model, who lost her leg in a traffic accident in 1993, claims that he demanded she cook his dinner every night even when she was on crutches with a broken pelvic plate. She says he would not let her have an antique bedpan under their bed to save her crawling to the bathroom at night, saying it would be like "an old woman’s homeî. Ms Mills, who was today taking part in a TV broadcast at St Thomas’ hospital, even accused him of trying to stop her breastfeeding their daughter Beatrice, telling her: "They are my breastsî. Ms Mills says she once found him lying naked and semi-conscious in the bath covered with vomit after one of his frequent drinking binges. The court papers are Ms Mills’s response to his petition for divorce in July when he cited her unreasonable behaviourî. The release of the papers will seriously damage McCartney’s reputation in the battle for his £825 million fortune and mark an escalation in hostilities in what was supposed to be a harmonious split for the sake of their daughter. The papers were leaked last night to the Press Association and Bloomberg news agencies in a fax. The leak is being viewed by McCartney’s side as part of a dirty tricks campaign. Sir Paul was unavailable for official comment today but a close source vehemently denied the accusations made in the papers lodged in the High Court’s family division. The source also accused Ms Mills’s public relations team of "orchestratingî the leak to maximise sympathy for her. The source said: "This is coming from a woman with a well-documented problem with the truth. This document was leaked with the very specific intention in mind of damaging Paul’s reputation and trying to hurt Paul. "She has conducted a whole orchestrated PR campaign throughout of photocalls, leaked stories and now this. Paul denies this version of events completely. "The suggestion for instance he stabbed her with a wine bottle is an outrageous accusation which is designed to damage his reputation and hurt him.î Geoff Baker, McCartney’s former publicist, said: "Heather Mills is a complete fantasist and I would not believe her if she told me the sun set in the West.î Mishcon de Reya, the law firm that acts for Ms Mills, would not comment on the documents’ authenticity but said in a statement: "The law firm can confirm that Lady Heather Mills McCartney stands by everything that has been filed at court on her behalf and intends to prove its truth in due course, should this be necessary.î Phil Hall, Ms Mills’s spokesman, said: "I am certain that Heather would not commit perjury.î The leak is likely to prompt an investigation into how the court papers ended up in the public domain.
Heather Mills is accusing her estranged husband Paul McCartney of repeated violence against her. Explosive court papers lodged by her lawyers in their £1billion divorce battle portray him as a ‘vindictive’ man who once tried to choke her and even attacked her while she was pregnant. Last night, Sir Paul’s spokesman refused to comment on the allegations, but it is understood he denies them and that they will be fiercely contested in court. In an extraordinary escalation of their dispute, Miss Mills claims in the documents that the ex-Beatle: Subjected her to four violent attacks, including one in which he stabbed her in the arm with a broken wine glass. Continued to use illegal drugs and drink excessively, despite promises made before they married. Hurled abuse at his wife, calling her an ‘ungrateful bitch’. Tried to prevent her breastfeeding, saying: ‘They are my breasts.’ Made her cancel a crucial operation because it interfered with his holiday plans. Objected ‘vociferously’ when she asked to buy an antique bedpan to save her crawling to the toilet at night. In the papers, which will form the basis of her bid for a share of Sir Paul’s estimated £1billion fortune, she claims he became ‘physically violent’ and acted in a ‘vindictive, punitive manner’ towards her. A series of episodes are described in which she alleges he physically attacked her. In Los Angeles, in November 2002, the papers say, he ‘grabbed her by the neck and pushed her over a coffee table’. He then went outside and, in his allegedly drunken state, fell down a hill, cutting his arm, which remains scarred Later, in May 2003, while Miss Mills was four weeks’ pregnant, she claims Sir Paul became ‘angry and pushed’ her into a bath. She says she suffered ’shock and distress’. On Long Island, in August 2003, Miss Mills asked Sir Paul if he had been smoking marijuana and claims he became ‘very angry, yelled at her, grabbed her neck and started choking her’. In April 2006, as the marriage neared collapse, Sir Paul allegedly tipped red wine from a bottle over his wife’s head and then threw what remained in his glass at her. The divorce papers claim that Sir Paul ‘then reached to grab the respondent’s (Miss Mills’s) wine glass, and broke the bowl of the glass from the stem. ‘He then lunged at the respondent with the broken, sharp stem of the wine glass, which cut and pierced the respondent’s arm just below the elbow, and it began to bleed profusely. ‘He proceeded to manhandle the respondent, flung her into her wheelchair and wheeled it outside, screaming at her to apologise for "winding him up".’ Miss Mills ’still bears the scars of the assault’, the papers say. The papers allege that Sir Paul humiliated his wife, or ignored her needs. After the birth of their daughter Beatrice in 2003, he forced his exhausted wife to ‘accompany him everywhere’ still with no regard to her physical or disability needs, they claim. ‘Forced to crawl on hands and knees’ In April 2006, it is claimed, Miss Mills – who lost a leg in a road accident in 1993 – was forced to crawl on her hands and knees up the steps of a plane because they were not wide enough for her wheelchair and Sir Paul had not made other arrangements. Sir Paul allegedly told his wife during her pregnancy she should not breastfeed because ‘they are my breasts’. He is alleged to have told her: ‘I don’t want a mouthful of breastmilk.’ She breastfed for six weeks, but gave up because Sir Paul would constantly interrupt her during home ‘crawling on her hands feeds which left her ‘miserable and knees while dragging her and demoralised’, the papers wheelchair, crutches and personal say. possessions’ to her car. In November 2005, Sir Paul is The allegations mark an extraordinary alleged to have forced her to escalation in what defer an essential and already had already become a bitter once-cancelled operation on divorce. her leg because it ‘interfered Previous episodes have seen with his holiday plans’. Miss Mills attempt to enter Sir The papers claim Sir Paul Paul’s London home with their vomited on himself after a daughter Beatrice, who is three drinking session towards the later this month, only to find he end of their relationship and had changed the locks. staggered home drunk and He also allegedly froze their slurring, demanding his dinner. joint bank account.
SIR Paul McCartney has phoned Heather Mills’s personal trainer – to ask him if they are having an affair. Ben Amigoni was stunned to get a call from Sir Paul and denied anything was going on with Heather, 38. He even invited Ben, 22, who has been snapped on long bike rides with his estranged wife, to his home for a chat. Advertisement A source said: "Ben got a phone call out of the blue. He couldn’t believe that Sir Paul was bothering to ring him, let alone what he was asking him. "Sir Paul said if Ben wasn’t comfortable talking on the phone, he could come to his Peasmarsh estate for a chat. "Ben denied there was anything going on and felt a bit embarrassed about the whole thing. He didn’t make any arrangements to meet as he felt he didn’t need to." Ben has helped Heather battle back to fitness after an operation on her leg which is fitted with an artificial limb. He ditched his long-term love before accompanying Heather, who split with Sir Paul in May, to America on Adopt-A-Minefield charity business earlier this month. But friends say Sir Paul, 64, who has a two-year-old daughter Bea with Heather, was reassured by their little chat. A source said: "Paul is pretty relaxed about the whole thing and doesn’t believe anything is going on. "He knows that Heather needs to work closely with her personal trainer to keep the muscles in her leg strong. "But if he suspected something more serious was going, it would be a totally different story." A spokesman for Sir Paul yesterday declined to comment. But Heather, who may have been wearing her heart on her sleeve when she was spotted at Heathrow recently wearing a top which said Love Kills Slowly, sent out a new message yesterday. She wore a jacket with Dedicated to the One I Love embroidered on the back on a cycle ride near her home in Hove, East Sussex.
TWO intruders broke into Sir Paul McCartney’s country estate and filmed themselves wandering up to his front door.The trespassers calmly strolled around the grounds with a camera, videoing Macca’s house and cars. And then they posted their film on an internet site, complete with commentary. Macca, 64, is said to be furious that the two US tourists sneaked into his 933-acre estate at Peasmarsh, East Sussex, with such ease. The ex-Beatle, going through a bitter divorce from ex-model Heather Mills, has given staff at Woodlands Farm a dressing-down and ordered them to tighten-up security.
A source close to the singer said: “Macca is livid. He is supposed to have tight security to protect him and his family but this pair walked straight in. It’s lucky they were harmless.”He just didn’t need something like this happening. The divorce is givin him enough stress.”The tourists managed to get on to Macca’s land after walking down a public footpath that runs nearby.It is not known whether the Sir Paul was in the house at the time.In the shaky footage posted on the popular YouTube website,theAmericans can be heard laughing nervously as the camera moves towards Macca’s three-bedroom farmhouse Beanacres.A woman’s voice says: “This is it. This is his house. It’s a beautiful house. It’s beautiful. Oh God, we are going to be in so much trouble.”In a second clip muffled singing and music can be faintly heard. The Americans claim it is Macca himself.The intrusion will evoke troubling memories for Sir Paul. In 1999, fellow ex-Beatle George Harrison was stabbed when schizophrenic Michael Abram broke into his Oxfordshire mansion.And John Lennnon was shot dead by crazed fan Mark Chapman in New York in 1980. A security expert yesterday said the trespassers had demonstrated just how easy is was to get close to Sir Paul. Ex-detective Hamish Brown said: “Now he’ll have to decide if he wants to make the estate like Ford Knox or not.”Macca, who is worth £750million, has previously complained that the public footpath runs too close to his house.He built a luxurious £1million log cabin so he could have living quarters further away from the path.A spokesman for Sir Paul last night declined to comment on the break-in. 3am
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Not many personal trainers get to accompany their boss in first-class luxury when they cross the Atlantic. But then not many fit young men work for Heather Mills. Ben Amigoni, 24, has hardly left Heather’s side since she launched her bitter battle for a slice of Sir Paul McCartney’s £825 million fortune. He joined her in the £4,000 seat to Los Angeles, apparently confirming that Sir Paul is still paying his 38-year-old wife a more than generous allowance. And when they landed, he sat in the front as she drove them away from the airport in her car. Friends claim the pair have struck up a close relationship since he joined her staff two months ago. They became friends during one-on-one sessions at the Hilden Health Club in Rye, near Sir Paul’s East Sussex home. It is not the first time Mr Amigoni has enjoyed the trappings of first-class travel – but on previous visits to LA with his new boss insiders say he was introduced as one of her bodyguards. Sources claim last time they flew together he was deliberately not checked in with Ms Mills as part of her entourage. At Heathrow Ms Mills – who stands to make £200million in the costly divorce settlement with the ex-Beatle – was seemingly travelling alone, but by the time she arrived in LA she was accompanied by Mr Amigoni.
