Eric, can we be surprised by this? I think not. SHe will get half of his wealth. I imagine she will go out and buy a few fur coats afterwards (just kidding). I feel sorry for Paul, but I read his children warned him before the marriage (and rightly so).

Paul was on the rebound and really not ready for marriage but no doubt he was lonely (all the lonely people...). I'm sure he won't make the same mistake again (though, if he's interested, Anna Nicole Smith is available).

What celeb marriage will be next?

Tom & Katie?
Brad & Anglina?
Vince & Jen?

Oh, right, these couples aren't even married yet. Maybe this is a wake-up call to them all.

Maybe he's amazed at the way she took half his stuff
Maybe he's afraid of the alimony

Suss, I'm sure he's going to get bilked big time. Yesterday all his troubles seemed so far away. Now, without a pre-nup it seems they're here to stay, but I'm sure he still believes in yesterday.

That's just wrong you two, just wrong. We all know that the taxman gets all his money anyway.

Do we know there was no prenup?

Got to get you out of my life...

Sorry, everyone else was playing. I wanted a turn, too.

I don't know enough about her to assume she's a golddigger. I admit that if a former Beatle asked me to marry him, I might accept :->
Hope everything is amicable, esp. for the kid's sake.

i was going to make a tasteless joke along the lines of when this divorce goes to court, she'll have a leg to stand on if there's no pre-nup, but i have chosen not to.

Guess she won't need him, guess she won't feed him... in about a month.

In all seriousness, this news saddens me. Mills doesn't have to be a golddigger in this situation, though. Perhaps the truth is just what they say - the high-profile/media exposure thing killed them. I'm sure that's often the case in their world. Maybe they'll reconcile and, er, get back to where they once belonged. Hope so. In any event, I wish them and Beatrice the peace and privacy they seek and every happiness.

I can't help but wonder if they had a shot even if they weren't publicly scrutinized. There are celebrity couples that make it work despite the publicity, like Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, or Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe...and...well, that's about it ... but if love is meant to be, then it will happen, regardless of the situation. Right? Right?

Okay. Just let me be idealistic for a little bit.

I was feeling wistful and didn't include the money part: Paulie is worth about $1.5 billion, and there is no prenup because he refused one. She will do reasonably well for herself.

Chelsea, you forgot Filliam H. Muffman.

$1.5 bil, Eric? Uh, man, that's just...so sad. Paul might be thinking, "Hmmm, happiness is a warm gun" but he'll not get away with it, and there's not a chance that Heather "will shoot her mind out in a car" because she'll definitely notice the light has changed in order to drive over to divorce court.

Paul better get his band on the run and helter skelter across the globe on a world tour to make up for the loss. He just better leave the songs "And I Love Her" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the playlist.

Half a bill is an expensive piece of tail but Sir McCartney will still be all right.

All crudeness aside, I am sure media pressures didn't help but McCartney has been a famous guy for awhile and held one marriage together until death did them part. Media scrutiny can't have helped but it seems a bit rubbish to blame them for the divorce.

Ms. Snyder, the truth is that the answer to your uestion is no. Love isn't always enough. One can forge a successful marriage without love and one can be unable to maintain a relationship with someone you love deeply and passionately. Love is wonderful. Enjoy it and cherish it if and while you have it, but "love conquers all" is a myth.

"Now that we love,
Now that the lonely nights are over,
How do we make love stay?"

The challenge, as sung by Dan Fogelberg, as stated by Tom Robbins. Rich, poor, famous, ordinary, everyone can lose at love even with the best of intentions. And most of us have, even those fortunate enough to end up with their soulmate (or with NOT their soulmate). Sir Paul is actually one of the lucky ones - he lost Jane Asher, he's apparently losing Heather Mills, but did he score bigtime with Linda, getting the privilege to spend 20-odd years with her. Many if not most of us will NEVER have what he had with Linda (and perhaps not what he had with Heather Mills before it became unmaintainable). And who knows who might be in the offing? (Or if he needs someone to be there to need and feed him?) No doubt he'll work it out in whatever way suits him, and so with Mills. I hope so.

A pre-nup wouldn't help. They have a kid. Even with a pre-nup, Heather can demand, say, $10 million a month for "child support" (which often goes to the mom).

what happened to Jennifer Lopez wasn't she supposed to get married a while ago.

whoa, J-Lo is so 1999

and Victor, way back in #1, no, we probably shouldn't be surprised by this

Paul McCartney has such a sweet media persona, I just want everything to turn out hunky dory for him, but at his age I'm doubting he's going to run out of money or anything. And I imagine he wants to be able to share his wealth with her if he still loves her, what else is he going to spend that money on in the next 10-20 years? Fancy stuff to put in his coffin?

Paul James McCartney was born June 18, 1942. Kind of gives new meaning to these words he wrote in 1968:

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.

Mr. Lana, see #8.

Without that pre-nup, you're nowhere, man.

That's it, that's all you get.

Just curious: do any of you married folk here actually have a pre-nup? It seems like everyone talks about how important it is, yet no one gets it.

I mean, after all, isn't every writer here at BC just one Great American Novel away from being a Megabuckster? :o)

Natalie is correct.

Plus, let's realistically look at the age difference. It's like generational.

Inevitable.

Now gee, there's a surprise.

For a guy who claimed that Linda McCartney was the love of his life, I was somewhat shocked when I first heard about him finding some fresh meat fairly soon after her death.

I guess Stella will be happy, apparently her and Heather didn't get along too well.

Personally I think they divorced because she couldn't hack his awful hair dye job. You'd think he'd be able to afford a half-decent one, sheesh.

we don't have a pre-nup - funny concept

So to the question of will you still need me when i'm 64 the answer is no?

Sahm, pre-nups are probably more important for Billionaires than for hundredaires like me. Actually, I don't think my financial worth is in whole numbers- at least not positive, black, whole numbers.

I am in double-digits at least!

Directed towards Victor - I think it's actually 'James Paul' McCartney - I'm pretty sure that his given name is actually his middle name. If I'm incorrect, you've permission to shove Heather's fake leg down my throat.

I think it's hilarious that Sir Paul has gone on record to hail that Heather is not a gold-digger! I wonder if he'll still feel that way a year from now. I am sick of hearing stars blame the media for their issues! Divorce, child endangerment, violence, wardrobe malfunction - what next, the war in Iraq?? Why not just say that their feelings have changed for one another or that their differing agendas are no longer compatible? Or why not take a page from Tom Cruise and say that their planets fell out of alignment?

Snark, right you are. I inverted it. At least I got the James right, right?

I can just picture it now. Paul's kids told him, "Make sure you have a prenup."

To which he replied, "Prenups? We don't need no stinkin' prenups!"

"But, Daddy," they implored, "she'll get your money."

At this point, Paul probably grabbed his guitar and sang, "I don't care too much for money; money can't buy me love."

I really feel sorry, Sir Paul, that it didn't work out.

regarding the leg: isn't it good, Norwegian wood

That's so wrong.

*snicker*

Shame on me.

I had refrained from lyrical references, but then I saw her standing there

Well she may be a lover but she ain't no dancer.

Jillian.... good zing!

When I was a young girl I thought Paul was the most beautiful pop star in the world and I admired his devotion to Linda but Heather is from a different time though she is a nice looking girl.

If you listen to the song, Silly Love Song backwards, It says "YOU SOULD HAVE SIGNED THE
PRE-NUP",

She was argumentative..ah, he expected her to see his sirness,,no respect from the child bride. Poor thing, locks her out.. what an example for him to present to his child. She is being typlified as a gold digger . what about his kids..I am sure they had some vested interest.After all none of them have an honest job ( no they couldn't have gotten those jobs on the basis of their father).He is being shown for what he is an archaic throwback who did not expect a mind.And he won't be in the poor house.

If he beat her why didn't she just hit him over the head with her fake leg?

It seems obvious to me, while following Heather's recent accusations of abuse, coupled with her history of tantrums and rants against the press or any other person/group viewed as being "against her", that Heather suffers at least from borderline personality disorder. This disorder is characterized by explosions of inner rage, low self esteem and a consumate need to receive attention, negative or otherwise. I hope for Heather, her daughter, as well as Mr. McCartney's sake, that the court would be able to set some limits to her behaviour and protect her child from being raised in an angry, chaotic environment. I find the whole thing quite sad.