War of the Maccas continues on…the lengthy article update.

Here’s the latest from the UK Daily Mail.  It looks like our loveable, and cuddly Sir Paul has grown a set of steel ones, and put his foot down in the coming divorce proceedings.  Here’s what the Daily Mail has to say about the sad state of the Macca marriage…

When they first split, Paul was devastated and Heather was set to walk away with £200m. But now he’s fighting back – dictating every detail of their break-up while she falls apart 

Nothing more starkly illustrates how changed Sir Paul McCartney has become towards his estranged wife than his current domestic arrangements.

Heather stays at his country estate with their daughter Beatrice on such days as it suits him to reside at his London townhouse. When he gives notice that he is travelling down to East Sussex to spend time with two-year-old Beatrice, Heather must on no account be anywhere on the property by the time he arrives.

She is effectively banished until Sir Paul returns to London.

So Heather must return to her £2 million beachfront property in Hove, even though, depressed, worn down and humiliated by the relentless raking up of details of an allegedly highly colourful past, she finds life there a torment.

She has been publicly humiliated, reviled, her reputation torn to shreds, those shreds scrunched up and trodden on. Her house is encircled by paparazzi, all waiting patiently for the moment Heather finally ‘loses it’; passers-by stare at her out cycling with appalled fascination, as they would a freak at the circus.

There is no escaping her notoriety. Except, perhaps, at the Peasmarsh estate.

Sir Paul’s 160-acre refuge offers complete privacy. Heather, 38, has offered to stay in any one of a number of residences on the grounds, and to keep out of his way, but he has refused.

Curiously, McCartney’s people deny Heather is on the property at all.

Furthermore, she no longer has the security of a car and driver, except when she has Beatrice with her.

Heather, stripped of the privileges to which she became accustomed as Lady McCartney, has to drive herself around nowadays, which in these troubled times makes her feel vulnerable.

Does she not have a joint account with access to some of her husband’s millions so she can hire her own driver?

Apparently not. Indeed, friends say that until just a few months ago, Heather had a mortgage on her house in Brighton and was making monthly payments with her own money from after-dinner speeches, although he has recently paid off the mortgage.

Espionage

“The Peasmarsh estate is a big place,” says a friend. “There are a number of residences where Heather could stay. It does seem unnecessary to force her out every time he is there when the one thing Heather craves right now is some privacy.”

She is becoming increasingly anxious and paranoid. And not, it must be said, without some justification. The bloody battle of McCartney vs McCartney has taken on a life of its own.

Last weekend it entered James Bond espionage territory when it transpired that someone has bugged McCartney’s private phone line at Peasmarsh. The listening device picked up a conversation between McCartney and his daughter Stella, whose loathing for Heather is unsurpassed within the McCartney clan.

During the highly charged conversation, Stella is said to have told her father that she believed Heather had consistently lied about her past.

She also discussed with him recent stories claiming Heather worked as a prostitute in her early 20s. Heather vehemently denies the claims and says she plans to sue – just as soon as her divorce is finalised. Stella is also thought to have made a contemptuous remark about Heather’s charity work.

Somehow this tape found its way into Heather’s hands. She in turn presented it to her husband to listen to. As well as being hugely embarrassed, he felt deep discomfort at this breach of security in his own home.

It is a criminal offence to intercept calls, whether made on a landline or by mobile, punishable by up to two years in jail. Both Heather and Sir Paul’s publicists declined to comment further on this strange business.

Another friend of Heather’s says she was not particularly surprised by the savageness of the contents. “It was upsetting but not surprising. Heather has always tried to be friendly to Stella, but it has been clear for some time that there is animosity there.”

This peculiar incident casts new light on another odd story that was doing the rounds in showbusiness circles around the time the McCartneys announced their separation: that someone within the McCartney camp had hired a private detective to trail Heather and revisit her history.

It seemed rather fantastical at the time, but given the very comprehensive character assassination to which Heather has since been subjected, one wonders whether such conjecture was entirely wide of the mark.

‘Heather dreads the days when Sir Paul comes back to his estate’

“Heather certainly believes someone is out to get her,” says a source.

But who, exactly? There is no suggestion that Sir Paul hired someone to delve into his wife’s background. Rather, the gossipers speculated that it was someone within his circle of whom Heather had made an enemy.

Stella might seem high up on the list of suspects. But she adores her father and would know that revelations that damage Heather also hurt and humiliate him.

It would not be her. We may never know who, if anyone, is behind any such campaign.

Whatever the truth, there is no doubting Heather is feeling very jittery right now. She is profoundly depressed, wounded and fearful for the future. “She is sobbing her heart out most of the time,” says a friend. “It is very, very hard for her.

“She is worried no one will want to have anything to do with her charity work, that no one will give her modelling work. She has dedicated the past ten years of her life to charity work, but that is all forgotten or ignored. She has no idea what her future holds.”

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Source: UK Daily Mail