Paul McCartney and Heather Mills went to court in London this week to hash out the largest divorce settlement in British legal history. The ex-Beatle, who is worth $1.6 billion, has reportedly offered his estranged wife $50 million. Mills is said to be seeking at least $100 million. Mills is representing herself after firing her lawyers and will likely cross-examine McCartney personally over his earnings since their 2002 marriage—a strategy that legal experts said could make her look greedy. Mills’ former publicist, Phil Hall, insists she isn’t in it for the money: “She simply feels there is an injustice here, that her life was wrecked by Paul McCartney.”
The family and friends of actor Heath Ledger laid him to rest in his native Australia last weekend, then plunged into the ocean at his favorite beach in Perth as a tribute. Ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams was among 50 mourners who ran into the water fully clothed or in their underwear, and then stood arm-in-arm, watching the sunset. Earlier, Williams brought everyone to tears by reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, which begins, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Ledger recently died of an accidental drug overdose.
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