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Heather goes to Hollywood

Тема: Пол Маккартни - Heather Mills (Хэзер Миллз)

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Heather goes to Hollywood
Автор: Ая   Дата: 06.09.02 23:22:46
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Heather goes to Hollywood
The Mail
August 31, 2002
by Natalie Clarke

She's been called a "fantasist" and a "gold-digger." Now she's seeking
fame and fortune in America with a concerted campaign of
self-publicity. But will the Yanks really fall for Lady McCartney?
During a modeling career remarkable only for the extreme naffness of the
outfits she wore - in particular, the 'sexy' lingerie - HM could hardly
have dreamed of this. Her face is currently gazing out from huge
advertising hoardings across America as the face of Inc, an upmarket
clothing range sold in legendary NY department stores Macy's and
Bloomingdale's.

The hair is sleek, the look chic and unfussy - the very opposite of
those embarrassing Eighties pictures. The contract is yet another
triumph for the woman who has prevailed against adversity for much of
her life to become Lady McCartney, the beautiful young bride of the most
famous living Beatle.

It is also just one part of this fiercely ambitious woman's campaign to
conquer America. Heather, friends say, is bitterly aware that in Britain
she will never, despite all her dedicated charity work - over which
questions continue to be raised - be able to erase the spectre of the
'opportunist' and 'adventuress' labels that have always shadowed her.
Also in her mind is the knowledge that in Britain she will, despite her
marriage to 60-year-old McCartney, never truly be accepted on to the
celebrity A-list, not least because on that list is Sir Paul's daughter
Stella McCartney and her fashionable friends such as Madonna and Gwyneth
Paltrow.
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Автор: Ая   Дата: 06.09.02 23:24:23   
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In an interview with the New York Magazine this week, Heather, 34 made
the bizarre claim that Stella had "issued a press release saying how
much she liked her new stepmother" - a claim quickly denied by Stella's
publicist.

In truth, the enmity between Stella and Heather is as strong as ever ?
and the celebrity A-list in Britain isn't big enough for the both of
them.
That perhaps is why Heather has set her sights on America, where, in her
mind, she has a "clean slate" and where, she hopes, she will became as
idolized and revered as her legendary husband.
After spending much of the early part of this year in the States, the
pair flew out to America again last week and will remain there for the
next couple of months. Heather is accompanying her husband on his rock
tour, but has no intention of playing second fiddle to him. She has her
own plans.

Among other things, she has given an interview to Vanity Fair magazine;
she is re-releasing her autobiography, Out On A Limb, re-entitled A
Single Step, complete with gushing new chapters on the McCartney
romance; and she is planning to find time in her busy schedule to give
"counseling" to victims of the September 11 atrocities.

She has also appeared on two television talk shows, Good Morning America
and The Today Show, in her drive to raise her profile.

Bit despite the PR frenzy, America, it would seem has not taken Lady
McCartney to its heart either. Americans, too, are slightly suspicious
of a woman who is so assertive that she gives her husband advice on how
to make his songs sound better. (And amazingly, he listens).

"When Heather and Paul to go to parties," a source explains, "everyone
is keen to see Paul because he's extremely popular over in the States.
But as soon as someone is introduced to him, Heather practically pushes
him out of the way and starts banging on about herself and her charity
work. It can get a bit tiresome - people are wary of her."

And of course, by now, all of America has read the stories about
Heather's colorful past. She was arrested for stealing jewelry as a
teenager, and her ex-husband Alfie Karmal, believes she is a fantasist
who should carry a "Buyer beware" sticker, and so on.

Soon, America will be able to read Heather's own version of her life
story. Interestingly, the new version of her autobiography will not go
on sale in Britain. We're probably not missing out on much. It's
unlikely that all the really interesting aspects of the Mills/McCartney
romance will appear in the book.

How, for example, just weeks before the wedding, the pair had a furious
row at a Florida hotel, culminating in McCartney screaming at Heather:
'I don't want to marry you,' and hurling the -15,000 ($22,500) sapphire
and diamond engagement ring out of the window and into the tropical
undergrowth below.

Only after a painstaking search lasting several hours by hotel staff was
the ring retrieved and returned to its owner by one of the security
guards.
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Автор: Ая   Дата: 06.09.02 23:25:13   
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The pair kissed and made up ? although both were said to be 'ashen
faced' the next day ? and the wedding did indeed go ahead, at Castle
Leslie in Ireland in June. But even the big day was not without its
tensions.

Stella, vehemently opposed to the match to the last, was seen by guests
with her father just an hour before the ceremony, saying to him -
begging is perhaps a better word ? "You don't have to do it Dad. You
don't have to go through with it."

All of McCartney's children, Heather, 38, his step-daughter from Linda's
first marriage, Mary, 33, Stella, 30 and James, 25, are said to be upset
about the relationship with Heather which began a little over a year
after the death in 1998 of his beloved wife Linda at 56 from breast
cancer.

They felt it was too soon, and that their mother's memory had been
betrayed. But they also felt uneasy about the age gap and Heather's
checkered history ? and suspected she was a gold-digger. Stella's
attempt to persuade her father to draw up a pre-nuptial agreement was in
vain.

However, it seems that the two Heathers have plenty to talk about, if
Lady McCartney's recent estimate that they're on the phone "for 40
minutes every day" is anything to go by.
But friends say that the more the children have tried to warn their
father against Heather, the closer it has pushed him and Heather
together. And there is no doubt that he is absolutely besotted with his
new wife.

The children going on at him about Heather only made him more determined
to marry her," says one friend. "Heather is extremely cunning and uses
the animosity to her advantage. She says things like, 'Why is everyone
against us? It's us against the world, and we have to be strong
together.' She gets Paul behind her every time because he feels sorry
for her."

A fascinating insight into Heather's character emerged after the
wedding, when there was a furor over her lace gown. The designers,
Caroline Eavis and Annie Brown, had agreed to make it free of charge in
return for publicity from the couple, which they didn't get. That came
only after the complained to the newspapers.

Why someone about to marry a man with -713 million ($1.7 billion) in the
bank should need a freebie wedding dress is baffling; but goes some
way, friends say, to explain Heather's motivations.
"She had a difficult childhood and it was a struggle after her mother
walked out," explains one. "Heather has never managed to shake off her
fear of having no money. That's why she loves a freebie. She gets a
real sense of satisfaction when she manages to wangle something for
herself. There will always be a bit of the wheeler-dealer in her, even
though she's married to a multi-millionaire."
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Автор: Ая   Дата: 06.09.02 23:26:12   
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Stella, for one, found the wedding dress debacle "highly amusing." "It
was said at the time that Stella was upset that she didn't get asked to
make the dress but that's rubbish," says one friend. "Stella didn't
want to get involved at all." The unhappy episode appears to have been
resolved after Heather offered to pay the -10,000 ($15,000) cost of the
dress.

So after the pre-wedding traumas, how is married life treating the
couple? Paul, say friends, "remains as 'under the thumb" as ever, but
it would seem the relationship remains volatile. The two are said to
have fierce rows over what friends call Heather's "megalomania" ?
usually resulting in Heather storming off, leaving McCartney' to stew
for a few hours before returning. By the time she gets back, he's so
grateful that she hasn't been kidnapped - he is obsessed with security -
that all the harsh words spoken before are forgotten.

"Paul doesn't think it's necessary for Heather to be so high profile,
and they argue a lot over it. When they row, she goes off on her own and
switches her phone off," says one friend.
"Paul's terrified she might get kidnapped, so he's just overwhelmingly
relieved when she comes back and they kiss and make up."

There are whispers that a recent row was even more heated than usual and
ended with Heather disappearing for two days before returning to her
husband, by now beside himself with worry. McCartney's spokesman Geoff
Baker says he has "heard nothing" about such an incident.

But in public, at least, they present a united front. In the weeks
before McCartney's first tour date, his wife will be keeping herself
busy giving "counseling" to victims of the September 11 atrocities, and
their relatives.

Her heart is, no doubt, in the right place, but some suspect her motives
are not entirely altruistic. "She sees herself as a cross between
Princess Diana and Hillary Clinton," says one critic. "She revels in the
glorification of herself."

This may or may not be a fair criticism, but Lady McCartney's erratic
way of handling her charity, The Heather Mills Health Trust, which
provides prosthetic limbs for amputees (Heather having lost part of her
left leg after being hit by a policy motorcycle in 1993) does nothing to
keep her detractors at bay.
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Автор: Ая   Дата: 06.09.02 23:27:18   
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Why, columnists have been asking, did Heather fail to register her
charity for six years after its inception in 1994 ? and only then after
a journalist inquired why she hadn't done so? How is it that the review
of the first year's accounts of the Trust list just -102,210 ($153,315)
in income, nearly -50,000 ($75,000) shy of McCartney's much publicized
-150,000 ($225,000) donation of late 1999?
Heather's explanation for failing to register the Trust with the Charity
Commission is that she did not feel its money should be wasted on
administration.

Although registration with the commission is free, she said she had been
quoted thousands of pounds from firms specializing in setting up
charities. The price, she claims, would have equaled the cost of
fitting 150 people with an artificial limb.

As for the alleged shortfall in the first year accounts, Heather says
the annual returns reflected only the period after March 20, 2000, when
the trust was officially accepted by the Charity Commission, and that by
then much of the money had been given away.

Heather's explanation as to why she did not register her charity is all
very laudable, but the fact remains that her charity's expenditure and
activities for six years are completely unaccountable.
On Wednesday of this week, the Mail asked Heather's solicitor, Stephen
Taylor, of Sheridans Solicitors, how much she raised during those six
years and what the money was spent on. By Friday, the response was "I
haven't had a chance to talk to Heather because she's away."

All these rumblings are doing Heather no favors in America, where her
publicity drive continues unabated. Next week, the October issue of
Vanity Fair goes on sale. Inside is a glamorous photo shoot and
interview with Heather. For a woman who has dragged herself up to where
she is today, it must be a dream come true.

There is, though, just one cloud on the horizon; for while there will
be a gorgeous blue-eyed blonde staring out from the cover, it won't be
Heather's face, but that of Madonna, who is of course in the inner
circle of Stella McCartney.

Losing out on the prestige of the Vanity fair cover to someone in her
stepdaughter's camp will be a particularly bitter pill for Lady
McCartney to swallow.
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