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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Heather Mills v. Ashley Dupre
It is a strange world we live in where a man can be ordered to pay a woman $50 million after a mere 4-year marriage, and the man is seen as the winner of the legal battle.
If you work it out, Heather Mills "earned" $1,400 per hour for every hour of her marriage to Paul McCartney. That tops what Ashley Dupre was paid by Elliot Spitzer on an hourly basis. According to the summary of the judgment that was released, Mills was seeking $7,000 per hour ($250 million) -- i.e. the amount earned by 7-diamond-rated escorts at New York's Emeror's Club. She has a high opinion of herself, evidently.
Details that have come out about the judgment, and Mills' reaction to it, don't paint a flattering picture of the ungrateful ex-wife. She is reported to have dumped a glass of water over McCartney's lawyer's head in the courtroom -- histrionic behaviour that would never be tolerated by a man in a divorce court. After delivering an 11-minute diatribe against the process and the judgment on the courthouse steps, Mills said she would not appeal the ruling and would oppose the release of any more details to the public. McCartney's only comment was, "All will be revealed." One surmises that the reasons for judgment were not particularly kind to Mills.
As usual, the aggreived ex-wife's first instinct it to pit the child against the father. Mills complained bitterly after court that she would only get $70,000 per year for little Beatice in child support. "Beatrice will have to settle for traveling in coach while her dad goes first class," she said. As if. No wonder the judge found her position on almost every issue to be unreasonable.
Still, if Mills were Canadian, she would have a point. By our standards, $70,000 per year in child support is a pittance for someone of McCartney's wealth and income. You would only have to be making about $700,000 per year in Canada to be on the hook for $70,000 in child support for one child. With an income in the order of $40 million per year, McCartney would be paying upwards of $340,000 per month -- per month! -- in child support according to the Federal Child Support Guidelines.
No wonder Erin Pizzey has described Canada as "the scariest country on the planet" for its treatment of men.
Posted by Grant Brown on March 19, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink
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Thank goodness McCartney made Heather sign a pre-nup!
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 19-Mar-08 9:13:20 AM
Even with your assumption of 24 hour a day services, and not including the tax-free nature of much of the settlement, it is clear that Governor Spitzer was still not speding up to the level of what the UK - or Canadian - judges are used to.
Posted by: B Jenkins | 19-Mar-08 9:26:42 AM
Mills is no Cinderella.
Posted by: dewp | 19-Mar-08 9:35:55 AM
Excuse me, McCartney was a foolish old man to have married this slut in the first place. When you are a worth over a billion you don't find a young chick half your age who loves you for who you are.
Perhaps Paul is so used to being loved for being a Beatle that he neglected to realized that Heather Mills wasn't around when the Beatles were in their hay day.
It's always best to stay in your own generation when partnering up. The Steely Dan Tune "Hey Nineteen" comes to mind here.
I don't mean to excuse Ms Mills, she is a POS of the first order. But silly old men and their lust for hot young chicks proves fatal in nearly every case.
Posted by: John West | 19-Mar-08 9:53:08 AM
It seems whores that fall in the fetish category demand the highest prices. Paul must have thought an ugly old gimp was less likely to stray. Now she's a rich ugly old gimp who can afford a string of young hunks. Maybe she "hopped" into the sack with the judge.
JW- I must have misjudged your age. Or maybe you listened to country and western music until 1972. You quoted Steely Dan, but had to ask what is CCR?
Posted by: dp | 19-Mar-08 10:35:42 AM
JW: There's nothing inherently "foolish" about older men partnering up with younger women. In our legal climate, however, it is risky. The answer is to change the legal climate rather than attempt to change human nature.
Posted by: Grant Brown | 19-Mar-08 10:39:22 AM
According to the sources I read there was no pre-nuptual agreement between the two.
I can't help but think that there was a Canadian connection to the divorce.
When Danny Williams was eviscerating Mills'seal hunt argument on the Larry King show,brave Sir Paul did not ride to her rescue,much to her apparent consternation.
Could a snapping seal pup have been the beginning of the end for these upper class twits?
Posted by: Bocanut | 19-Mar-08 10:53:02 AM
You wanna play, you've gotta pay.
Guys will do most anything to get laid. I've ridden horses, gone scuba diving, and stepped outside with a few bad-asses. Lying on an iceberg and getting my ass chewed off by a seal is where I draw the line. Unless it's with Lucy Liu.
I've made several million since my divorce, and I'm worried I won't have enough to put my kids through college. I live very frugally, compared to my ex. I'd be a lot better off if my kids lived on their own, with me paying all their expenses. In fact, they would have more funds available in that situation. I'd be very surprised if half of all child support payments ever trickle down to the child.
An acquaintance of mine told me it's hard to spend quality time with his kid, because when he looks at him he sometimes imagines a big canvas bag with a dollar sign on it. Pretty sad.
Posted by: dp | 19-Mar-08 10:58:46 AM
Can't buy me love
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no
Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
~Paul McCartney
I tell ya, the guy is a romantic.
Posted by: Speller | 19-Mar-08 11:10:39 AM
"Lying on an iceberg and getting my ass chewed off by a seal is where I draw the line."
Like so many others I'm trying—really trying—to picture exactly what would sit say, an inch before that line.
Posted by: Pattern Recognition | 19-Mar-08 11:12:38 AM
Ever seen a barracuda's teeth up close?
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Posted by: Paulo | 19-Mar-08 3:18:26 PM
Considering the fact that there were no children as result of that marriage and considering the Heather Mills’ age entering into that marriage and duration of that marriage I cannot fathom why would a judge even consider such award?? Ms. Mills did not forgo an opportunity to better herself by devoting and sacrificing her precious time on the face of this planet by spending it with Paul McCartney.
It used to be that women in position of Heather Mills were frown upon as gold diggers and chastised by society. Now it seems that gold digging is perfectly acceptable and considered as thinly disguised form prostitution.
If this was a rationale behind judge’s decision result still puzzles me. If Paul McCartney’s marriage to Heather Mills was just a form of long term prostitution contract than payoff should be determined based on maximum earning potential of Heather Mills as a high priced escort if she could cut that grade and should have nothing to do with Paul McCartney’s ability to pay otherwise we are talking about socialism and redistribution of wealth based on ideology rather than facts of the case.
It is no small wonder that radical feminists love socialism so much.
http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/Socialist-Feminism-02.html
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/socialist/
Posted by: Karol Karolak | 19-Mar-08 3:25:07 PM
I can't believe she got $48 million...I never thought she had a leg to stand on. :)
Posted by: Markalta | 19-Mar-08 3:53:59 PM
Surely Paul knew when he married her that he was going out on a limb...
Posted by: ebt | 19-Mar-08 3:59:55 PM
Her name was Heather but she was always "Peg" to Paul!
Posted by: Markalta | 19-Mar-08 4:09:58 PM
I can't believe she got $48 million...I never thought she had a leg to stand on. :)"
"Surely Paul knew when he married her that he was going out on a limb..."
"Her name was Heather but she was always "Peg" to Paul!"
Good one. That reminds me, didja hear the Canadian Forces have experienced a few missteps in Afghanistan this month, but otherwise it's been a blast?
HAHAHAHAA! Get it? Missteps? Blast?
What?
Posted by: Hyuk Hyuk | 19-Mar-08 4:41:59 PM
IF Heather had any intelligence beyond a common twit she would have settled for having it all done in private in the best interest of the child.
Paul's first marriage was a good partnership by all accounts, hopefully he's learned from this disaster.
If Paul or twit Heather have a story to tell they should have the sense to consider the daughter they produced from that disaster.
Posted by: Liz J | 19-Mar-08 6:14:08 PM
No way she`d appeal that verdict , She`d have as much chance as a one - legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Posted by: daveh | 19-Mar-08 8:10:47 PM
Maybe Gov. Spitzer has some money saving advice for poor ol Paul.
Posted by: JC | 19-Mar-08 9:49:59 PM
Hey, Hyuk, are you trying to make some kind of stump speech here?
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Posted by: Paulo | 21-Mar-08 11:23:00 AM
As I search every single thing about child support and the unfairness, I HAD to tell you guys that I was ROFL with your responses to this...you guys are amazing! Thanks for making me laugh...
Anyway, crazy woman...it's disgusting the laws allow such women to get away with so much. Makes me sick.
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