Sir Paul McCartney is ruing the day he married Heather Mills after seeing lurid pictures of his estranged second wife being splashed in the British tabloid press.
LONDON: Sir Paul McCartney is ruing the day he married Heather Mills after seeing lurid pictures of his estranged second wife being splashed in the British tabloid press.
“He is deeply depressed and unhappy, consumed by anguish and regret, and is in no way ready to face the world,” said a friend of the former Beatle, 63, who is holed up at his Sussex farmhouse. “He bitterly regrets marrying Heather and dragging his children into this awful situation.”
A tabloid carried a picture of a virtually naked Mills in a steamy clinch with a half-naked man on its front page, with the headline ‘Lady Macca Hard Core Porn Shame’, causing Sir Paul great embarrassment. The picture is part of a series of pornographic pictures taken for a 112-page German book, Die Freuden Der Liebe, or The Joys of Love, published in 1988.
Mills’s lawyers admitted the 38-year-old former model had taken part in the shoot but argued it was not pornographic. “This photo shoot, undertaken approximately 20 years ago, was for the purpose of a lovers’ guide to caring relationships and instructive sex like many other books on the market,” said lawyer Coyle White Devine. “The photo shoot was not for the gratification of viewers.”
He said Mills did not have sex with the male model and added, “It is widely known that our client is a former model and has done nude shots in the past.” Apparently, McCartney had believed that Mills had only been a topless model before he married her and had no idea she had participated in hardcore pornography too.
Rumours of Mills’s murky past had emerged around the time she and McCartney started dating but were played down by the couple. “Until now he always believed her when she said all the stories about her past were rubbish,” McCartney’s friend said, “but now he knows they are true. He is utterly devastated.”
The McCartney-Mills divorce is expected to be bitterly fought with Mills, dubbed a gold-digger by the tabloid press, trying to get all she can out of the pop icon’s £825 million fortune. But the pictures will go against her and her desire to retain custody of the couple’s two-year-old daughter Beatrice.
McCartney had not signed a pre-nuptial before the marriage because he considered it unromantic.
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