Heather Mills said Monday she has received 24.3 million pounds in her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney, or $48.7 million.

McCartney arrived at court on Monday to learn how much of his huge fortune he must hand over to Mills.

The Associated Press reported that a British judge awarded Mills 16.5 million pounds in a lump sum settlement.

Reuters reported that McCartney was ordered to pay Mills 24.3 million pounds after an acrimonious divorce battle.

McCartney, 65, married the former model and charity campaigner Mills, 40, in 2002, but they split four years later, blaming media intrusion into their private lives. They have a 4-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

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The estranged wife of pop legend Paul McCartney is to receive 25 million pounds in a hard-fought and long-awaited divorce deal, a newspaper reported Friday.

The judge who presided over a final round of talks last month between McCartney and Heather Mills has sent details of his proposed ruling to both sides, and they have raised no major objections, the Evening Standard reported.

The official verdict will be handed down on Monday, said the paper, citing a source close to the case which has dragged on for two years. “The judgement has been made,” he said.

“The parties involved received their copies this week. On an analysis of the case law Mills was always going to receive around 25 million pounds. It’s fair to say the judge has not erred from that.”

The musician married Mills in 2002, four years after his first wife, Linda, died from breast cancer. They announced an “amicable” split in May 2006, but their dealings since have been anything but friendly.

McCartney, 65, and Mills, 40, have been in discussions ever since to decide how much former model turned charity campaigner Mills would receive from his estimated 825-million-pound fortune.

It is unclear if the ruling includes provision for the couple’s daughter Beatrice, who was born in 2003, the paper added, saying that a summary of the judgement is expected to be made public.

“The judgement is very thorough. He has gone into every detail to make sure neither party can have grounds for appeal. It’s fair to say the judgement is very long,” said the source.

There has been speculation that the deal could be the highest divorce settlement in Britain, outstripping the 48 million pounds businessman John Charman was told to pay his former wife last year.

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Heather Mills’ father has attacked her decision to drag her divorce from Paul McCartney through the courts, accusing her of being “greedy”. A judge is due to return a decision on March 17th on what settlement Mills will receive, two years after their four-year marriage ended in 2006.

But Mark Mills claims his 40-year-old daughter should have settled months ago after the former Beatle made his first big money offer.

He says, “He’s offered her multi-millions. She should take that and stop what she’s doing. It’s plenty. “She’s being greedy. How much does she need?”

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Former model and ex-wife to Beatle Paul McCartney, Heather Mills is set to be crowned one of the world’s sexiest women in a new poll.

Mills shocked bosses at FHM by racking up more than 1,000 votes a day in their online poll to name the world’s 100 most attractive women.

The magazine claims that her popularity has been heightened by her very public divorce from McCartney. Chris Bell, FHM’s deputy editor, says, “Heather Mills has always been vilified as a gold-digger with a dubious past. But readers have realized she’s about to become the world’s most eligible and richest women.

Heather Mills is currently number 95 on the top 100 list, ahead of Paris Hilton, Gwen Stefani, and Kirsten Dunst.

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The weeklong divorce hearing between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills has ended.

The judge will be working out a settlement over the next several weeks, the Associated Press reports.

Mills, 40, and McCartney, 65, split in 2006 after four years of marriage.

According to reports, Mills is seeking up to $100 million of the former Beatle’s estate, which is estimated at as high as $1.6 billion.

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Heather Mills is likely to leave the UK once her divorce from Paul McCartney is finalized, according to her father.

The former model is currently appearing at London’s high court on the third of five scheduled days of hearings regarding a financial settlement with her estranged husband.

And according to her father Mark Mills, she is likely move to either the US or France after a deal has been reached with the former Beatle.

“She won’t stay in this country. She knows everybody hates her and she does not care,” he said.

“I think she’s very low at the moment and would leap at the chance to get away from it all and take her daughter Bea with her.

“I think she’ll go abroad and then just slowly fade away into obscurity.”

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Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills have been banned from discussing their divorce proceedings with the media, after a judge slapped them with a gag order. The former couple began the battle over their financial settlement in court on Monday. Heather is said to be representing herself in her fight for her share of his $1.6 billion fortune.

The judge imposed the court order at the beginning of the hearing to prevent details of their divorce settlement from being leaked to the media.

A court source says, “The judge made it clear at the start of proceedings that the hearing was being held in private and that all evidence should remain strictly confidential. All parties were warned about leaking information. Anyone caught revealing confidential details of the court hearing, set to last five days, is likely to be found in contempt of court and fined.”

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