By Staff
When he's 64 next month, the man who famously sang, “I don't care too much for money because money can't buy you love,” will be single again, separated after a four-year marriage.
Their June 2002 wedding in Northern Ireland cost $3.2 million.
He better hang onto that thought.
Maybe I'm amazed, but Sir Paul McCartney wed Heather Mills without a pre-nuptial agreement, exposing his $1.5 billion fortune.
Their separation was announced May 17.
Mills ought to walk away with a bundle big enough to buy back the Beatles catalog from Michael Jackson.
McCartney posted a message on his Web site expressing ire over suggestions that Mills married his money, although “Baby, You're a Rich Man” wasn't the only Fab-ulous song that was new to this anti-landmine and animal welfare advocate.
Earlier Wednesday the couple issued a joint statement insisting their split was amicable, blaming media intrusions for making it difficult to sustain their relationship.
Beatrice Milly was born in October 2003.
McCartney remarried four years after breast cancer claimed the love of his life, Linda.
They married in 1969 and kept such a low profile raising three children, photographer Mary, designer Stella and musician James, that Paul eventually had to speak out in Life magazine to beat back rumors he had been dead since the height of Beatlemania.
Check out the clues on album covers and spin some records backward.
A Detroit radio station caught the intrusive media napping when it broke that story.
The media is so intrusive that a wire story trotted out a “family spokesman's” 1998 quote that Paul and Linda “never spent a night apart in the 30 years that they have loved one another.”
Not unless you count the time Paul spent in the slammer in Japan for drugs.
Could Linda have been smuggled inside with the intrusive media camped just outside?
So intrusive are the media that I didn't even know McCartney dismissed longtime publicist Geoff Baker until I was reading about the separation.
The one time I remember seeing them on the “news,” even with several channels devoted to celebrity nonsense, was when they traveled to Canada to draw negative publicity to seal hunting - with the complicity of the intrusive media.
Did you know?: It costs the U.S. mint 1.23 cents to make a penny? And 5.73 cents to manufacture a nickel, according to USA Today.
Seventies end: Farewell to “The '70s Show” and Point Place, Wis.
Warmest April ever: For the 48 contiguous states, the average temperature registered 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal last month, the National Climactic Data Center reported May 16, making it the nation's warmest April since record-keeping started in 1895.
How 'bout those Tigers?: Pinch me. Detroit boasted the best team in baseball May 19.
May 20, when they blew a 5-1 lead, but came back to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in the 10th, Comerica Park was packed.
Eight of the past nine teams with baseball's best record on June 1 reached the postseason, the notable exception being the 2002 Boston Red Sox (36-15).
The Bosox won 93 games, but finished second in the American League East.
Imagine, rookie pitcher Joel Zumaya, born Nov. 9, 1984, wasn't even alive when the Tigers won their last World Series.
Quips, quotes and qulunkers: “President Bush employed the classic ‘melting pot' metaphor, but changing the character and culture of America through uncontrolled immigration - legal or not - would drop a glacier into the pot that would never melt.”
26 percent: Approval ratings of Tony Blair, 53, the most unpopular Labour Party prime minister since World War II.
Voters think he stretched the case for war in Iraq.
India makes carmakers drool: General Motors, Ford, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Honda and Hyandai are among the foreign auto companies angling for a share of one of the world's fastest-growing car markets.
Last year, 1.2 million cars and light trucks were sold in India.
That number is expected to increase by about 9 percent annually over the next five years, according to J.D. Power and Associates, a global market research firm based in Westlake, Calif.