McCartney Ordered to Pay Ex $48.6M

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Posted Mar 17, 2008, 08:41 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, Heather Mills, will get $48.6 million in a divorce settlement.

Mills is already holding assets worth $15.6 million, and she’ll get the rest of the award in a lump sum payment of $33 million, the Associated Press reports. She will also get $70,000 a year in child support for their 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice, as well as money for the child’s nanny and school fees.

According to a Forbes magazine ranking, the award is the seventh-largest for a celebrity divorce, the Telegraph reports.

The family court judge who heard the case, Hugh Bennett, valued McCartney’s assets at about $800 million.

Mills spoke to reporters after the decision, saying McCartney’s lawyer had handled the case badly and had called her names, Reuters reports. Mills had fired her legal team and represented herself, the Telegraph reports in a separate story.

"I am so glad it is over," Mills said.

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