First girlfriend of Paul
Heather Mills went skiing in Croatia, and a few weeks later Yugoslavia began a civil war. After her trip to India, there was a terrible earthquake. September 11, 2001 she was in New York - the whole world remembers what happened then. Against this backdrop, a plane crash that happened a few months later - a civilian plane fell into New York's Queens district - seems somewhat less significant. But after all, what a coincidence: Heather Mills while in Queens and stayed ... It's no wonder that when McCartney broke up with Heather, Paul's friends said that he was very lucky.
The love story of Paul McCartney seems surprisingly modest. The first "real" girl appeared at him only in 17 years. Her name was Laila, she looked after the neighboring children and several times invited Paul to "sit" with her: "sitting" in the language of local teenagers meant a fuss on the couch. Laila was older than Paul and, rightly considering him a penny, quickly gave the future sir a resignation, replacing him with an experienced neighbor.
Then the first permanent girl appeared: the relationship with Dot Rowan lasted three years. Paul treated her with all seriality - gave a ring and persuaded to repaint himself in a blonde and make a hairdo "babette": the ideal of beauty for Paul was then Brigitte Bardot. Dot went to Paul when the Beatles performed in Hamburg, and soon became pregnant. Paul, as an honest man, proposed to her. The wedding was scheduled for November 1962, but in July Dot had a miscarriage. To transfer this test the young couple could not, and they parted. Now Roone is already a grandmother, lives in a small town in Canada and assures that Paul wrote songs Love of the Loved and PS I Love You about her and for her.
Then came the era of actress Jane Escher. By that time - by May 1963 - the whole of Britain was already in love with the Beatles. However, Paul had to persuade Jane to meet with him. Jane introduced Paul to a well-known physician and music teacher of the famous Guildhall School of Music and Theater. McCartney settled in the Esher house for two years. At that time, the intellectual elite was gathered in this house. There McCartney became acquainted with the philosopher Bertrand Russell and the playwright Harold Pinter. In the studio, located in the basement of the house Esher. McCartney wrote one of the greatest songs of the 20th century - Yesterday Jane inspired him to create the songs of All My Loving. I'm Looking Through You, in which Paul assured: "I see right through you," but in fact it was he for Jane, like an open book, and she spun them as she wanted. By the time Paul had already rasproboval delights of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and did not aspire to marriage. However, Jane managed to get him to announce the engagement - it happened in December 1967. But soon the very same engagement and dissolution: after returning home at an inopportune time, she found Paul in bed with an unknown girl.
It was the American screenwriter Francie Schwartz: their romance with Paul did not last long, but Francie was enough to write a book of memories and become the heroine of the television series "The Beatles Wives". To the credit of Jane Escher, she still refuses to answer questions about that period of her life. Then there was Linda. They married on March 12, 1969 and lived together for nearly thirty years. Four children were raised - Paul now has six grandchildren. Linda did not succeed in becoming a grandmother: she died of breast cancer on April 17, 1998. Exactly one year after her death, McCartney met Heather Mills. Heather Ann Mills could not boast of any long cordial affection. If you believe the autobiography published in 2002 - and the events told in it, were denied by very many who knew Heather closely - who grew up in a dysfunctional family who for some time lived in a doss house, stealing clothes and food in cheap stores and, in the end , tried for theft. Heather met his first true love in 1986. She was eighteen, she worked as a waitress in the London club "Bananas" and twisted love with the DJ from the club, the Greek Denis Karmal. Once he told Heather that his older brother Elfy had recently divorced his wife and therefore feels terribly stupid and insecure. Heather was so sorry for "terribly uncertain" Elphi, who was older than her for ten years and achieved considerable success in business, that he soon led her to get acquainted with his mother. Mom, after examining the hair of her son's bruised peroxide and sticking out of the breast embroidered with sequins, she did not give her blessing. Elfi justified himself: "You'll see, she will be the most famous model in the world!"
Karmal paid for dancing classes, lessons in the school of models, plastic surgery to reduce the bust, and a year later Heather was not recognized. Heather announced to Elfi that she got a contract for a model in Paris - and actually went to the living Lebanese millionaire Georges Kazan, whose mistress was there for two years, until she had the idea to call Casan's legal wife and declare that she intends to become "The next Mrs. Kazan". The furious Kazan sent Heather back to London, and she persuaded Elfi Karmal to marry her and buy her a model agency. In 1990, Elfi sent Heather to improve his health at the ski resort in Croatia, where she had an affair with a ski instructor, which led to a divorce from Elfi Karmal. The agency, which did not bring her any income, she sold for nothing. The next two years, Heather worked in an escort service for wealthy clients and from time to time participated in risky photo-sessions, such as shooting for the book "Joy of Love." But she was thinking about the future, and so, returning to London, quickly surrounded banker Raffaele Mincion. It happened in early 1993, and on August 8 Heather Mills came under the wheels of a police motorcycle. Injuries were severe. As a result, doctors were forced to amputate her left leg almost to the knee. Heather received from the police authorities 200 thousand pounds of compensation, another 180 thousand she earned, selling her story to one of the British tabloids. Heather invested most of this money in the Heather Mills Health Fund: this foundation, designed to provide prostheses for victims of anti-personnel mines, has become the basis of her further dizzying career in humanitarian beer.
In 1995, there were reports of this engagement - alas, not held - with the British publisher Marcus Stapleton. and in 1999 Heather announced an engagement with documentary filmmaker Chris Terrill. With Stapleton, she was only known for sixteen days, with Terrill - twelve: Heather bragged to her friend that she had "only a week to take the man to the altar." However, this engagement did not take place either - in April 1999, at a charity reception, Heather Mills met with Paul McCartney. This happened in the reception hall of the luxurious hotel Dorchester, where the ceremony of awarding prizes "Pride of Britain" was held. McCartney presented the prize to activists of the animal rights movement. Mills - a reward for courage - in that year she received a girl who lost her arms and legs, but continued to study at the university. As one of McCartney's friends recalled later, "when Heather ascended the stage. Paul turned pale. I looked where I was. not looking up, he looked. and realized: this woman somehow subtly reminded Linda in her youth ... "The same height, the same honey hair, the same determination under external vulnerability. And - what was very important for Paul - devotion to humanitarian ideas: Paul was told that this woman is actively fighting against the use of anti-personnel mines and helping their victims, that she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations and even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Their meeting occurred exactly one year after the death of Linda. This year Paul spent as if in a dream: yes, he continued to work, he communicated with children, with friends, attended charity events, released the album Run Devil Run. opened in Germany the first exhibition of his paintings - at the exhibition were presented and photographs taken by Linda, but all saw that from it - as one friend put it - "like air was released." At the ceremony "Pride of Britain" Paul did not dare to talk to her. Their first conversation took place a few months later - by phone and in the presence of then-boyfriend Heather Chris Terrill. After that, Heather began to regularly call McCartney and inform him about the affairs of the fund. Then she, along with her sister Fiona, who lived in Greece and owned a small recording studio, recorded a song, the proceeds of which were to go to the fund. Paul McCartney decided to support a good undertaking and record backing vocals, for which in November 1999 he invited Heather and Fiona to his estate in Sussex. The next day Paul drove the sisters to a party his friends had arranged for him, and the yellow press was full of headlines: "Paul McCartney found a new love!" Paul refused: "If I invited these two ladies somewhere, it does not mean that I'm going to someone of them to marry. " Heather supported him: "Well, you! We're just friends". Heather and Paul called back: she assured him that he had nothing to do with the hype in the press, he reassured her: "Yes, do not pay attention! They always marry me on someone. " As time went. Heather and Terrill were preparing for the wedding. Finally Chris Terrill arranged a stag party. The next morning, Heather kissed him gently in a sick head and went to the airport to greet Fiona arriving at the celebration. From the airport, she telephoned Terrill and briefly reported: "Between us it's over." In December, Paul, along with his daughter Stella and son James, went on a short vacation to the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. During the day Paul hired a boat and traveled to a neighboring island, where he was met by a "mysterious blonde" ... January 12, 2000 Heather was 32 years old. However, she transferred her birthday on January 29. Then it became clear why - "a special guest", the presence of which Heather hinted invited, was busy: in mid-January, he went to Cuba to "get acquainted with local musical traditions." Reception Heather gave in his house, rebuilt from an old barn in Hampshire. That evening, she was particularly good: a flowing scarlet dress, a light glow of the "English rose", underlined by the wavering light of the candles. The dishes were served exclusively vegetarian. A special guest arrived at ten in the evening. "Oh, this is my darling," Heather announced to the crowd and went out to meet Paul McCartney on the lawn. Everyone saw how they embraced, kissed and walked into the house, holding hands.
A friend of Heather, the writer Pamela Cokerill, who helped her work on her autobiographical book, said: "I've seen a lot of couples in love and I can say with all responsibility: this is love." True, another girlfriend Heather claimed that there was not much love: "Heather called me and said that she was going to present an ultimatum to McCartney - either marry me, or go out." Journalists, however, believed Miss Cockerill: this fifty-three-year-old woman, who wrote more than one autobiography for the British stars of theater, film and business, had a lot of life experience. True, Sheather later confirmed that the ultimatum was after all, but of a different kind: she would never marry him if he did not give up his terrible habit: "He was constantly smoking grass. For him, hammering a jamb was like giving a cup of tea to others. And I did not want him to lie to our children later, when they grow up and start asking if he used drugs. " In this version of the "ultimatum" everything is strange. Firstly, Heather Mills constantly insisted that she could not have children, since even when she was married to Elfi Karmal she had two ectopic pregnancies, besides, as a result of the catastrophe, her organs were injured. Secondly, if McCartney, who in his youth really dabbled with marijuana, "constantly smoked the grass," then, as he was and is under the scrutiny of the paparazzi, it would certainly be known. But all these explanations were later, and while McCartney was bathing in love and attention of a woman for a quarter of a century of his younger, a woman worthy, respected, beautiful, in the end! And he wanted to spit on the hints of friends, as if Heather Mills had great disagreements with the truth and that the truth for her was a very loose concept. Children - except the youngest daughter of Stella, who was younger than Heather for only three years - did not dare speak to his father about his novel. Stella, already then a famous designer and the only one of all the children of McCartney in no way dependent on him financially, rebelled openly. She even got a letter from Heather Mills to one of her girlfriends, in which she reported that she was going to "marry an old man with tits more than me." McCartney Stella did not believe, and even for a while stopped talking to her.
In 2001, he recorded the album Driving Rain. organized in New York a concert in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack, participated in charitable events, and was accompanied everywhere - as once by Linda - by a new friend of Heather Mills. She did not let go of his hand for a second, and when someone tried to piss on it, they say, this lady got you strong, - McCartney severely rebuked the offender: "Do not you understand that it's difficult for her to walk? She, like anyone, needs support in life. " He did not mind at all when Heather was distracting the attention of the press to himself: he did not need this attention at all, and its foundation and its good beginningswere constantly supported by the public. Especially since the public was not in a hurry to support Heather, about which, as her weight was more often seen next to McCartney, the newspapers were more likely to bring to the light something that, as Heather had hoped, had long been forgotten. Namely: that her first husband, Elfi Karmal, agreed to marry her only after she had undergone a course of treatment from "pathological lies". That she does not even have a secondary education, not that she has a "certificate of excellence", which she often spoke about. That she did not run away from her despot father at all and did not live under a bridge in a cardboard box. That at seventeen she almost got the case because of the fact that she stole several gold trinkets in a jewelry store, where she worked part-time. That, contrary to what she wrote in her autobiographical book, she was not kidnapped by a pedophile at the age of nine, who "then committed suicide." The most unpleasant of all was the story told to one of the tabloids by the former Heather counterpart in the escort business: Heather was the most ordinary, albeit expensive, prostitute, and among her clients were prominent figures such as Saudi billionaire Adnan Hashoggi and Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer. But Paul McCartney saw in her only a victim: "This is the fate of all my girlfriends: I remember well what kind of filth watered Jane Asher, how they mocked Linda, this holy woman." On July 23, 2001, having risen to the knee by all rules, he asked for Heather Mills hands and handed her an engagement ring with sapphire and diamonds. Which Heather after a few days lost, but, thank God, then found - on the golf course. Sir Paul would have thought about a bad idea, but he never believed in signs, and almost a year later. On July 11, 2002, Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, who became Lady Heather Mills McCartney, played a wedding. The wedding took place in the church of St. Salvatore in the territory of a 17th-century castle rented for this occasion in Ireland. The bride - in a lace dress and with a bouquet of two white peonies surrounded by eleven (a rose of the south, named after her future wife - walked to the altar to the melody of the song "Heather." From the church, the young came out to the sound of the wedding march, which McCartney still in 1966 he wrote for the comedy "On the Family." True, the song "Heather was also not new - McCartney once wrote it in honor of his eldest daughter, Linda, also called Heather." At a wedding reception at which vegetarian dishes were served and collection champagne, present Three hundred guests were seen - among them were Ringo Starr, George Martin, Eric Clapton, Twiggy, Elton John, and many other celebrities, including Paul McCartney's children, including the obstinate Stella.Hizer Mills claimed that Stella had issued a special press release, release, which approved the choice of his father.Stella existence of such a document denied - and indeed, no one has ever seen it.
The young went on a honeymoon to the Seychelles, and. as if in a fairy tale - though not in nine months, but in a year and five months. October 28, 2003, they had a daughter Beatrice. Both before and after the birth of Mills, following the example of Linda, accompanied Paul everywhere - on tours in the US, Japan, Mexico, on the European tour of 2003 - on May 24, McCartney first performed in Russia, on Red Square, and President Putin personally drove a stellar couple with a tour of the Kremlin.
Therefore, the joint statement of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills on May 17, 2006 that they want to part, sounded like a bolt from the blue. The statement said: "We did our best to make sure that our relations were reliable and strong, despite the pressure that we experienced in our daily lives. Therefore, we must regretfully inform you that we decided to go through life in our own way. We part friends, we are still close people, but it became increasingly difficult for us to maintain normal relationships in conditions when our privacy was constantly being intervened when we had to protect the right to rest and the normal life of our child. " July 29 of the same year Paul McCartney filed for divorce. In fact, their parting did not surprise either Heather's friends or Paul's friends. From the very beginning, the marriage was not a fairy tale: first of all Heather did not like "life in the hut", even if it is as comfortable and rich as Paul McCartney's estate in Sussex. And it's not even that Linda's spirit was there: Heather wanted a bright, secular life, she wanted to shine, give receptions, and she did not understand why Paul did not like living either in his huge London house, or in the chic, bought already during their life together in an artdeco mansion near Brighton, where many rich and famous lived. In conversations with friends, she called Paul "an old man, constantly complained that outside the scene on which Paul shines, they do not communicate with anyone:" The maximum that he needs is to go to the local pub with his road manager. " She did not want to understand that the desire to protect herself from strangers is not just the mania of Paul McCartney - it's his way of life, otherwise he would just not survive. Linda and I had enough of each other, and in their secluded world there was only a place for children.
This he also expected from Heather. But she believed that, having received the ex-Beatle, she would receive the whole world in addition. The same peace and quiet that Paul tried to surround her, she was not enough. She tried to resist, tried to insist on his own, and he was simply tired of this noise and din. However, until the very last moment she believed that Paul was still in her power, and even when they were - before the joint statement - for two weeks broke up and he told her that she wanted a divorce, she was firmly convinced that he "would come to his senses and will return. " When he did not change his mind, the mud tubs poured on Paul McCartney's and his family's heads. To begin with, Heather blamed Stella for breaking up - she always set her father against her. More - more: McCartney, it turns out, drank, drank, beat her, tried to cut it with a broken glass. Someone believed in these tales - at least until in the newspaper The Times former fiancé Heather Chris Terrill published an open letter to the ex-Beatle. The letter was called "Obschezerennye". Terrill congratulated McCartney on joining the "club of men whom Miss Mills outsmarted." "I know how she did it," he wrote. - Of course, it was harder to get you, and she coped with me for only twelve days - exactly the same time we were shooting a film about the victims of anti-personnel mines in Cambodia. But, I'm sure she did the same with you, the same as with me: she is a real sorceress, and any man she wants to enchant instantly falls under her influence. How does she do it? Just. She indulges him in everything, she looks at him from the bottom up, she pleases his ego ... With you she was a vegetarian, with me with pleasure she tasted chops.
Once we sat at her house and watched television peacefully: by that time the marriage date had already been fixed. There was a phone call. I picked up the receiver. "Ask, please. Heather, "said the voice. I recognized him - like every Beatleman, I would recognize him among thousands of other voices. "You to the phone - it seems, Paul McCartney." You offered 150 thousand pounds sterling for her charity fund ... "Judge Bennett, who led the divorce proceedings, also did not believe what Heather was saying. At the trial, McCartney was represented by a lawyer, once engaged in the divorce of Prince Charles. Heather Mills hired an attorney's office, which once represented Princess Diaggu, Heather demanded 125 million pounds from McCartney. Conspired to 24.8 million pounds and 35 thousand annual payments to the nanny and school for Beatrice. And on May 12, 2008, Sir Paul McCartney once again became free. His open letter to Chris Terrill ended with the words: "Well. Paul, I hope you will be all right. They say time heals. We both felt the same feelings for the same outstanding woman, and both, to some extent, from these feelings were affected. But Heather is not a gold digger. I think she's one of those who desperately want recognition and are terribly upset when things do not go as they would like. This affects the men who are next to her, but it hurts and she herself. The irony is that she has many virtues that could bring her this recognition, so she really has no need to invent anything. I saw her talking to people affected by the mines, saw how she actually helps them. In it, of course, there is something to be reckoned with. Thank God, I can listen to my favorite "The Beatles" again.