Sir Paul McCartney

Profession: Musician
Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 1942
Associated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney

However, unless one of the McCartneys takes issue with the settlement being hammered out behind closed doors in the Family Division of the High Court and goes to the Court of Appeal, the figures and details will never be known to the outside world.

There has been speculation amongst divorce experts based on recent big money cases suggesting that the settlement could reach £60 million, exceeding the record £48 million businessman John Charman was told to pay his former wife in May this year.

But lawyers agree there are many imponderables which could limit Lady McCartney’s payout, including the shortness of the marriage and fact that the bulk of Sir Paul’s fortune was amassed decades before the couple met - she is just 40 while he will be 66 this year.

They have a three-year-old daughter, Beatrice, whose future will also figure large in the negotiations.

Suzanne Kingston, a family law expert, said: "Current estimates suggest that Heather is likely to receive anything from £50 to £100 million as her final settlement."

Macca calls for seal protection - Feb 1 2008
Paul McCartney has criticised Canada’s annual seal hunt and asked animal lovers around the world to pressure the European Union to ban seal products.

The EU is accepting public comments on the proposed ban until February 13, and the former Beatle said it’s a chance for people everywhere to help end the commercial slaughter of seals.

"Like me, you’ve probably seen the horrifying images of helpless baby seals being beaten and shot for their fur," he said.

"Wounded seals left to suffer in agony. Conscious pups sliced open. And the reason for their pain? So that someone can sell their fur."

Macca and his estranged wife Heather Mills travelled to the harp seal nursery on the Gulf of St Lawrence in 2006 to protest against the annual hunt.

The traditional spring hunt is important to the livelihood of Canadian seal hunters and aboriginal peoples. Fishermen sell seal pelts mostly for the fashion industry in Norway, Russia and China, as well as blubber for oil, earning about 78 US dollars per seal.

The music star said a ban on the trade of all seal products in the EU could spell the end of many commercial seal hunts. He said that, if the hunt does end, governments should find employment alternatives for seal hunters and compensate them for lost income.

"A European Union ban on all seal product trade would force nations where seal hunting has taken place to invest in real alternatives - jobs that will provide safe and sustainable futures," he said.

Macca joins campaign to save post office - Jan 22 2007
Sir Paul McCartney has waded into the row over the closure of his village post office, the ex-Beatle’s brother said.

Macca backed a campaign by locals in Lower Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, to retain their community’s 100-year-old post office.

Sir Paul was described as "indignant" about the plan to shut the Lower Heswall branch, according to his younger brother, and fellow Heswall resident, Mike McCartney.

Mr McCartney, former frontman of The Scaffold, said: "Paul sent me a text saying that it was wrong and supporting us. He has the same indignation we feel. It is terrifying. For all the elderly people, the retired and the disabled it’s a severe setback.

"It is an important part of our community, Paul visits the post office when he’s here, just like other people."

Sir Paul bought his detached property in Heswall in the 1960s, originally for his father Jim, who died in 1976. In 2000, he brought Heather Mills to the village, confirming speculation that the couple were an item.

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Biography

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 1942 to James and Mary McCartney. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute.

At the age of 15 he met John Lennon. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they formed the most successful group in the history of music--the Beatles.

Since the Beatles, Paul has released 21 albums and staged three world tours, while evolving into classical composition, film-making and actively campaigning for ecology and animal rights After the Beatles split up in 1970, Paul embarked on a solo career before forming the group Wings with his wife, American Linda McCartney, which had some success but never to the scale of the Beatles, That has never yet again been seen, (even now)

His solo period during the eighties culminated with charity performances at Live Aid and for The Prince of Wales Trust, leading him to get back on the road again. Since 1990, Paul McCartney has traveled over 800,000 miles in concert through 22 countries, setting, along the way, the Guinness world record for the largest stadium crowd in the history of rock and roll--184,000 in Rio de Janeiro. During the same time, he also established the "MTV Unplugged" vogue and then performed his acoustic show in clubs and pubs around Europe.

In 1991, Paul staged the performance of his first classical work, "The Liverpool Oratorio", which has since been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide. In 1995--the 30th anniversary of his most acclaimed song, "Yesterday"-- Paul’s second classical work, "A Leaf," was performed at a benefit concert he organized for the Royal College of Music at St. James Palace. Paul composed a major orchestral work, commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of EMI Records.

In recognition of his work for all music, Paul was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the U.K.’s highest musical honour. Aside from his music, Paul McCartney campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He and his wife Linda are the new patrons of the British Vegetarian Society. He is also the chief patron of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, a new school similar to New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, which will open in his hometown in 1996. Paul has also developed his interest in film-making. His first production, "Daumier’s Law," won the top prize in 1992 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.

His latest short feature, "Grateful Dead, A Photofilm," will be entered in the London Film Festival at the invitation of the British Film Institute. He was also knighted by the Queen and made a ’Sir’ Paul and Linda had three children between them as well as Linda daughter from a previous marriage, which Paul adopted as his own. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, she was only 56.

All of their children are a success in their own right Stella McCartney is head designer at Gucci after a very successful stint as head designer for Chloe and daughter Mary is a successful photographer just as her mother Linda was before her.

Three years after the death of his first wife Paul met Heather Mills at a charity event where Mills was raising financial assistance for the Heather Mills Trust, a foundation providing artificial limbs to war victims across the globe. Mills, a former swimsuit model, lost her left leg below the knee in 1993 after being hit by a police motorcyclist.
March 2008