Heather Mills McCartney locked out of Paul’s home

LONDON (Reuters) – Heather Mills McCartney laughed off
being locked out of estranged husband Paul McCartney’s London
home, her spokesman said on Tuesday, but her divorce battle
with the former Beatle appears to be turning sour.

On Monday, police were called to McCartney’s London
residence when Mills’ security guard climbed over the wall of
his premises wall to let her in. The locks on the gates had
been changed.

“One of the security people inside called the police,”
Mills’ spokesman said. “They turned up and she went off for a
drive around the block with the kid.”

Mills had arrived at the home with her two-year-old
daughter Beatrice, the couple’s only child.

“She was laughing about it,” Hall said, when asked about
newspaper reports that Mills was angry at being locked out.

But he confirmed that McCartney had frozen their joint bank
account and had sent a “legal letter” to his wife to complain
after three bottles of cleaning fluid were taken from his
Sussex home to clean Mills’ nearby office.

McCartney’s spokesman was not immediately available for
comment.

Although the couple described their separation as amicable
when it was announced in May, McCartney cited her “unreasonable
behavior” in divorce papers and Mills responded by vowing to
file counter-claims in Britain and the United States.

Lawyers believe McCartney could lose up to one quarter of
his wealth, estimated at 825 million pounds ($1.5 billion), as
a result of a divorce.

The couple married in 2002 having met in 1999 at a charity
event a year after the death from breast cancer of McCartney’s
first wife Linda.

Mills has been the target of lurid allegations in British
tabloids since separating from McCartney, but he has strongly
denied she married him for his money, saying in May there was
“not an ounce of truth in this.”