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Heather Mills
Heather Anne Mills is an English former model, businesswoman and animal rights activist. She came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was run over by a police motorcycle in London. The accident resulted in the amputation of her left leg below the knee, but she continued to model using a prosthetic limb. She had begun a relationship with Paul McCartney by the end of 1999. They marr…
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business · English former model, media personality, businesswoman, and activist (born 1968) · model · businessperson · merchant · activist · entrepreneur · patron of the arts · fashion model · also Heather Mills, Heather Mills McCartney, Mills, Heather Anne, Lady Heather Mills McCartney, Mills
Born 12 January 1968 · Q266568
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2026· 8 entries
“By the time I came across him, he was already a worldwide celebrity. I wasn”
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“a man that has written nothing but awful things about me for years and would have relished telling the inquiry if I had played a personal voicemail message to him”
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“world centre for the creation of planet-rescuing ideas”
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“her leg was only hanging on by a tiny flap of skin and flesh...miraculously the surgeons managed to insert a metal plate and re-attach it”
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“took guts to represent yourself at the High Court”
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Public attention spiked: 7,641 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 1,651, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 10,471 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.3× the usual 1,651, with 0 article edits.
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2019· 1 entry
Mills bought the 55-acre (22 ha) site of a former Coty factory in Seaton Delaval (10 miles (16 km) north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), which closed in 2018
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2014· 1 entry
Two products sold under the brand 'Wot no Dairy' were recalled, because it was revealed that they contained traces of dairy products and consequently could possibly cause adverse effects for those with dairy product into
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2013· 1 entry
Mills opened a new, enlarged VBites in East Street in Brighton which closed in September 2017
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2012· 1 entry
Was called "Heather Mills" and "Ms Mills" in her testimony to the Leveson Inquiry and its subsequent report, though Lord Justice Leveson had referred to "Lady McCartney" earlier in the proceedings
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2009· 3 entries
Mills bought a vegan food manufacturer, The Redwood Wholefood Company, which she renamed VBites Foods
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Mills reported that a bogus charity had been set up to extract information about her marriage
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After petitioning the Press Complaints Commission in the UK about being lied about in the press, five British tabloids (The Sun, Daily Express, News of the World, Sunday Mirror, and Daily Mirror) publicly apologised to M
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2008· 4 entries
An old video surfaced of Mills wearing a mink coat that she had owned in 1989, but she explained to reporters that she had bought it years before becoming involved in animal rights organisations or vegetarianism
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After her divorce, Mills pledged to give a 'large portion' of her £24.3 million divorce settlement to Adopt-A-Minefield, but as of September 2008, the charity had not received any of this money.
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In 2008, an old video surfaced of Mills wearing a mink coat that she had owned in 1989, but she explained to reporters that she had bought it years before becoming involved in animal rights organisations or vegetarianism.
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A survey commissioned by Marketing magazine showed Mills as one of the top four most-hated celebrity women, along with Amy Winehouse, Victoria Beckham, and Kerry Katona
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2007· 4 entries
Mills's relationship with PETA ended in 2007, when McCartney's daughter Mary was chosen in her place.
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That over 4,400 abusive articles about her had been published
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Mills joined a Viva! film team at a pig farm in Somerset, in February 2007, to publicise the use of restrictive farrowing crates, which are used for sows who are suckling piglets.
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When McCartney's daughter Mary was chosen in her place
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2006· 2 entries
About hearing the message – refused to say who had played him the recorded message of the call, saying he was protecting a source
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In March 2006, McCartney and Mills travelled to Canada to bring attention to the country's annual seal hunt.
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2005· 2 entries
McCartney stated that he felt inspired by Mills, as "Being in love with her makes me want to write songs", such as "Too Much Rain" for the album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005), and "See Your Sunshine" ('She makes me feel glad/I want her so bad') for his album Memory Almost Full (2007).
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Mills became a patron of the British animal rights organisation Viva
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2004· 1 entry
Mills received a "Children in Need" award from the annual International Charity Gala in Düsseldorf; in the same year, the University of California, Irvine gave her their 2004 Human Security Award and created the Heather
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2003· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2003).
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How life was with McCartney, Mills replied, "Great, really great", but also said that she was surprised at how tidy McCartney was: "He always cleans up before the cleaner comes
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The Open University awarded Mills an honorary doctorate for her philanthropic work on behalf of amputees
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When asked by chat-show host Larry King in 2003 how life was with McCartney, Mills replied, "Great, really great", but also said that she was surprised at how tidy McCartney was: "He always cleans up before the cleaner comes.
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McCartney played a concert in Red Square, Russia
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As guest of honour at a prize-giving event, and to support the school against plans for its closure
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2002· 2 entries
Mills accepted damages of £50,000 plus costs from the Sunday Mirror after a false report that the Charity Commission had investigated her about the money she raised for the Indian Earthquake Victims Appeal in 2001
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Mills and McCartney were married on 11 June 2002, four years after his first wife Linda had died of breast cancer.
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2001· 2 entries
From Croatia's prime minister, Ivica Račan for the money she raised to help clear that country of landmines
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(to become Baroness Mills) by the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and a certain 'Lord MacDonald'
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1995· 1 entry
Mills became engaged to British media executive Marcus Stapleton after being together for 16 days; she was then engaged to documentary filmmaker Chris Terrill in 1999, after 12 days in Cambodia, where they were making a
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1993· 1 entry
When she was a model and was run over by a police motorcycle in London
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1991· 1 entry
And Mills was engaged to Raffaele Mincione (a bond dealer for the Industrial Bank of Japan) in 1993
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1990· 1 entry
Karmal paid for her to go on holiday to Croatia with his children and ex-wife (with whom Mills had become friends), but Mills ended up living with her Slovenian ski instructor, Miloš Pogačar, shortly before the Croatian
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1987· 1 entry
Mills went to live in Paris, telling Karmal that a cosmetics company had given her a modelling contract, but instead she became the mistress of millionaire Lebanese businessman George Kazan for two years and took part in
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-01-12.
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