Heather McCartney denies she’s a ‘gold digger’
From Nicoel Smith

LOS ANGELES—Heather Mills McCartney, who is in an acrimonious divorce with pop legend Paul McCartney, has told a US television show she had married the former Beatle for love and was not out for his fortune.
“If I was a gold digger ... I would have a lot of money in my bank account,” she told the celebrity news show “Extra” in her first television interview since the couple split up.
“I’m a good mother, I’m a good person,” said Mills, who has a three-year-old daughter, Beatrice, with 64-year-old McCartney. “I fell in love for the right reasons. I loved unconditionally, and it just didn’t work out.”
“I was just madly in love, blinded by love and totally, totally madly in love,” the 38-year-old ex-model said in the interview broadcast late Tuesday, excerpts of which were on the show’s website. The couple announced in May they had agreed “with sadness” to split up after four years of marriage.
But the divorce has turned into an acrimonious affair played out in the media, with leaked divorce papers last month claiming McCartney mistreated his second wife.
McCartney has said through his lawyers that he would “vigorously” defend the allegations. In turn, Mills McCartney has announced plans to sue two British newspapers over “false, damaging and immensely upsetting” statements concerning her divorce.
In the “Extra” interview, Mills McCartney said she had been concerned that she would be vilified over the divorce.
“When all this happened, I just thought everybody would blame me,” she said.
“So I sort of had my head down and people would come up and go, ‘How are you?’ I don’t get any kind of ‘ew’ in the street from people. Nothing. I get nothing but support; people want to come up and give me a hug”.
Meanwhile, Original handwritten lyrics by former Beatle Paul McCartney and a guitar owned by legendary rock musician Jimi Hendrix are among the featured items in a major New York auction of rock and pop memorabilia.
Love letters and personal notes by Bob Dylan and a previously unheard interview recording with the late Beatle John Lennon will also be sold at the Christie’s Rock and Pop Memorabilia auction on December 4.
McCartney’s working lyrics written in 1968 for the Beatles song “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” from the “Abbey Road” album, is expected to fetch the highest price with an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000, according to Christie’s.
“McCartney lyrics rarely appear on the market and have not appeared for about six years,” said Christie’s spokeswoman Helen Hall, adding other items ranged from those once belonging to rock band The Doors to pop singer Madonna.
A Fender Stratocaster guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix for two years before his death in September 1970 could sell for $80,000 to $120,000. The right-handed guitar was modified and restrung for the left-handed Hendrix, but it is unclear if he actually played it, according to Christie’s.
Other Dylan items on offer include a demonstration copy of the 1963 album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” with track listings amended in Dylan’s handwriting, estimated at $8,000 to $12,000.
A 60-minute taped interview that Lennon gave freelance journalists in 1974 where he discusses a range of topics from questions of a Beatles reunion to his run-ins with the Nixon administration could be sold for $25,000 to $35,000.