HEATHER Mills was today awarded £24.3
million in her bitter divorce from Sir Paul McCartney - and immediately announced she was to fight on.
Miss Mills said she was "so pleased it's over" before revealing that she is to continue her legal battle as early as tomorrow by challenging the publication of the ruling.
The judgment said she had sought £125 million and been offered £15.8 million by Sir Paul.
The judge decided on a lump sum of £16.5 million and assets of £7.8 million.
Speaking on the steps of the High Court, she insisted she was "very very happy" with the decision.
The judge found that the total value of all the husband's assets, including his business assets, was about £400million. There was no evidence at all before him that he was worth £800million.
The judge found that although Sir Paul and Heather had met in 1999 and formed a relationship, they did not live together until their marriage on June 11, 2002.
The couple separated in April 2006. The length of the marriage was just under four years.
The judge refused to permit either side to raise as an issue the alleged conduct of the other on the grounds that it was irrelevant.
The judge, in undertaking the exercise prescribed by Section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, decided that the needs of the wife were a factor of major importance.
The lump sum of £16.5million is made up of a sum of £14million as the capitalised figure for the wife's income needs, which the judge assessed as £600,000 per annum, and a sum of £2.5million for the wife to buy a property in London.
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