Cheaper To Keep Her

You know, I usually don't give a crap about such things, but the eminent divorce of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills really bugs me. Reports say that even before they were married, McCartney's kids spotted her right off as a goldigger (for one thing, she wasn't hangin' with no broke niggas) and now MSNBC has recently quoted her as saying, "Paul knows why I'm with him, If I were after money, I would have gone after someone with much more."

Ok, hold on here.

Sir Paul is worth approximately $1.56 billion (that's with a "b").
How many guys richer than that are going to want a 38-year-old, one-legged wife?
I mean, the potential sexual novelty is worth something, but I think one thousand five hundred sixty million dollars is about top price for that option, don't you think?

Now they say the former Beatle never had a pre-nup? C'mon, that had to take some pre-emptive doing on Mills' part.

According to an interview given by Paul some years ago, he and Linda (his former wife of thirty years) never spent a night apart in all the time they were together.
That, as any married couple will attest to, is an amazing statistic. Even moreso when you consider that this marriage began when Paul was one of the fab four and continued through his stint with Wings, and then all that solo touring across the planet.

It also illustrates how close this couple was. He must have been absolutely devastated at her passing.

Enter Mills.

Are you hopping to the same conclusion as I am here?

Mills now stands to get a quarter of Paul's estate in the divorce. That's about $1.9 million for every week for the four years they were married. Anna Nicole Smith should be so lucky.

There goes the opportunity to right one of the greatest wrongs ever committed.
No, not by killing Ringo Starr and giving his riches to Pete Best--but that's close.
I'm talking about Paul having the opportunity to buy back the Beatles song catalog from Michael Jackson.

Jackson is currently in desperate need of money and the catalog is valued at about $200 million. If it weren't for Mills, Paul could easily regain rightful control, and still be a billionaire. All would once again be right in the rock world.

Alas, now it may never be.