Heather's fur demo clash
By TONI JONES
Sun Fashion Writer
and EMILY SMITH
US Editor
SIR Paul McCartney’s wife Heather limped in agony yesterday after her false leg was knocked loose in a clash with Jennifer Lopez’s minders.
Animal rights activist Heather was delivering a horrific DVD, showing racoons being skinned alive in China, to the New York offices of J-Lo’s fur-trimmed clothing line Sweetface.
Guards told her: “Get out of here, you are not invited.” They tried to hustle her away — and her prosthetic leg twisted.
Photographer Richard Corkery said: “She was obviously in pain but she found a fire exit to hide in and re-adjust her leg. I saw her limp away from the offices as J-Lo’s men were still shouting at her to get out. They were even saying, ‘Call the cops, call the cops’.”
Heather, 37 — who lost her leg when she was hit by a police motorbike in 1993 — said: “The next stage is I’ll find out where she lives and show up there. And I’ll get hold of her at her premieres.”
Heather has been using the shows of New York fashion week to highlight animal cruelty.
Animal rights group PETA said singer and actress J-Lo was a target because of her clothing range.
A spokesman said: “Heather McCartney Mills took it upon herself to go to the Sweetface offices yesterday.
“J-Lo said in a recent interview, ‘If somebody wants to educate me about fur they can do’. Heather wanted to be the person to do that.”
Heather said: “PETA has tried for years to educate her about fur — at first gently and quietly, and now like this. She needs to find some warmth inside her and penetrate that warmth in her heart.”
The former model has already been thrown out of another store for wearing a flat-screen TV showing animals being skinned. The agent for 35-year-old J-Lo declined to comment.
SIR Paul yesterday vowed to stand by his photographer brother Mike, who last week appeared before Chester JPs to deny groping a waitress during a family party at a pub in the posh Wirral suburb of Parkgate.
Sir Paul said the 61-year-old father of six was a “devoted family man” — and “I am completely behind him”.
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