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TV documentary slings mud at Mrs McCartney: Times of India
London, May 08: Money can`t buy me love, the world`s greatest living Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney - or at least his legal team - is apparently poised to chorus all over again, as the sexagenarian`s new wife is humiliatingly and controversially dubbed a celebrity-seeking `gold-digger`, sometime `pleasure wife` to wealthy Arab businessmen, compulsive liar and serial fantasist.
London, May 08: Money can’t buy me love, the world’s greatest living Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney – or at least his legal team - is apparently poised to chorus all over again, as the sexagenarian's new wife is humiliatingly and controversially dubbed a celebrity-seeking ‘gold-digger’, sometime ‘pleasure wife’ to wealthy Arab businessmen, compulsive liar and serial fantasist.
Heather Mills McCartney, 26 years younger than Sir Paul, and a former model, has reportedly been ‘exposed’ by a series of former lovers, friends and family in a TV documentary expected to be watched (Wednesday night) by millions of dismayed and open-mouthed Britons.
The allegations come just months after Mills was accused of siphoning off charitable funds she raised for the Gujarat earthquake. She won her point that time round. But this time, say commentators, some of the dirt may stick. Allegations about the woman to whom the Beatle breathed a romantic "love me do" less than a year ago are thought to remove the fairytale gloss of Sir Paul’s second marriage.
Acid-tongued observers say the TV programme is very damaging. Some say it may only show that a Beatle is not meant to re-marry, following on from Lennon’s disruptive second marriage and Paul’s controversial union with Mills.
The programme titled ‘The Real Mrs McCartney’ offers a 65-minute rundown of Mills’ life as a good-time girl with no discernible income, but a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, a snazzy sports car and a luxury flat in upmarket central London.
According to reports, the most damaging claims come from Ros Ashley, a former "pleasure wife" for rich Arabs, who says she introduced the 18-year-old Mills to a number of wealthy Lebanese businessmen.
This took the woman who was later to marry into modern rock royalty into an ill-gotten world of casinos, luxury hotels and private jets.
Ashley tells the cameras that the future McCartney bride’s "ambition was to meet a wealthy man - whether Arab, English, Spanish, whatever would give her wealth and status".
She further reveals that she first met Mills in shady Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi’s London hotel suite.
Later, she married an older, wealthy man, went into therapy for "compulsive lying" and acquired a reputation for physically violent and destructive behaviour every time she split up with a lover.
The programme reportedly shows Mills's former sister-in-law describing her as "very destructive… like a praying mantis when it comes to men…uses her sexual charms quite brilliantly".
The allegations are understood to have incensed Sir Paul, whose lawyers have been in contact with Channel 4.
The Beatle who once jokily used the well-worn words of the song, "I love her yeah, yeah, yeah" to declare his love for Mills, married her in a 17th-century Irish castle less than a year ago.
Heather Mills McCartney, 26 years younger than Sir Paul, and a former model, has reportedly been ‘exposed’ by a series of former lovers, friends and family in a TV documentary expected to be watched (Wednesday night) by millions of dismayed and open-mouthed Britons.
The allegations come just months after Mills was accused of siphoning off charitable funds she raised for the Gujarat earthquake. She won her point that time round. But this time, say commentators, some of the dirt may stick. Allegations about the woman to whom the Beatle breathed a romantic "love me do" less than a year ago are thought to remove the fairytale gloss of Sir Paul’s second marriage.
Acid-tongued observers say the TV programme is very damaging. Some say it may only show that a Beatle is not meant to re-marry, following on from Lennon’s disruptive second marriage and Paul’s controversial union with Mills.
The programme titled ‘The Real Mrs McCartney’ offers a 65-minute rundown of Mills’ life as a good-time girl with no discernible income, but a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, a snazzy sports car and a luxury flat in upmarket central London.
According to reports, the most damaging claims come from Ros Ashley, a former "pleasure wife" for rich Arabs, who says she introduced the 18-year-old Mills to a number of wealthy Lebanese businessmen.
This took the woman who was later to marry into modern rock royalty into an ill-gotten world of casinos, luxury hotels and private jets.
Ashley tells the cameras that the future McCartney bride’s "ambition was to meet a wealthy man - whether Arab, English, Spanish, whatever would give her wealth and status".
She further reveals that she first met Mills in shady Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi’s London hotel suite.
Later, she married an older, wealthy man, went into therapy for "compulsive lying" and acquired a reputation for physically violent and destructive behaviour every time she split up with a lover.
The programme reportedly shows Mills's former sister-in-law describing her as "very destructive… like a praying mantis when it comes to men…uses her sexual charms quite brilliantly".
The allegations are understood to have incensed Sir Paul, whose lawyers have been in contact with Channel 4.
The Beatle who once jokily used the well-worn words of the song, "I love her yeah, yeah, yeah" to declare his love for Mills, married her in a 17th-century Irish castle less than a year ago.