On the morning of 11 September 2001, Sir Paul McCartney and his fiancée Heather Mills were sitting in the first-class compartment of a commercial aeroplane at John F. Kennedy Airport, about to fly to London. As their aircraft taxied for take-off, the couple saw the familiar outline of Manhattan blemished by a pall of smoke rising from the World Trade Center.
The captain asked everybody to remain calm as he found out what was happening. Passengers instinctively started calling family members on their cell phones. They were all still sitting there 17 minutes later when a second terrorist-guided aircraft slammed into the South Tower of the Trade Center, shortly after which came news of a third plane hitting the Pentagon and that, as a result, all commercial flights were grounded. When they had disembarked, Paul and Heather were driven back to Long Island where, like most people, the couple sat watching television coverage of these extraordinary events.
Paul? He’s a mix of Peter Pan and Captain Hook. The Beatles? Never liked them. (E- Mills)
Linda had always been happy to be Paul’s consort, never trying to overshadow him. With Heather there was the sense of a rival ego. Ever since she first sold her story to the British tabloids, she had revelled in media attention, albeit pretty second-rate stuff. Now she swaggered on an international stage. In fact Heather soon bored of sitting at home with Paul in Amagansett and left him there to fulfil ‘urgent charity commitments’ in the U K.
At Felice’s Restaurant, run by an Italian family who had also known and loved Linda. They couldn’t stand Heather. ‘I don’t want to talk about her!’ says restaurateur Alda Lupo Stipanoe, throwing up her hands in dismay when Heather’s name is mentioned. ‘Nothing like the first wife. The first wife was a lady.’ Staff in the town library likewise found the new Lady McCartney impossible. ‘He is very charming. She was a complete bitch - rude, sense of importance, everything he isn’t,’ comments one librarian. Amagansett is where the next alleged domestic row occurred, according to the divorce papers.
When she returned to Long Island a few days later, Heather suggested to Paul that he ‘do a charity concert’ for 9/11. Paul wasn’t immediately keen. His new album, Driving Rain, was due out and he didn’t want to give the impression he was using the disaster to sell records.
Heather told him not to be so silly. ‘Write a song about freedom,’ she suggested, picking a touchstone word used repeatedly by President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
English Press never quite like Heather Mills, this is what The Daily Mail Wrote about Her on a sarcastic fake investigation
A private investigation commissioned by members of Paul McCartney's family into the past of the former Beatle's ex-wife has revealed the shocking truth that Heather Mills McCartney is in fact the dread female pirate Captain Esmerelda Timbershins, suggesting her marriage to the aging rocker was nothing more than a case of dry-land larceny of the grandest scale.
Timbershins' true history paints an entirely different picture than the facade she projected as McCartney's wife, socialite and philanthropist. Although her early years remain shrouded in mystery, it is now known that Timbershins was born Ruth Dawkins to a retired prostitute and used car dealer in Portsmouth, England, where she lived until the age of 15 when she won a fishing boat from a Chinese man in a poker game and sailed away from home to Indonesia, retaining the man and his family until she became her own capable captain, shot them all and pushed them overboard. In the years that followed, Timbershins assembled a motley crew of derelicts and began preying on cargo ships and private crafts in the Straits of Malacca and throughout the Bay of Bengal where she quickly cultivated a reputation as one of the most fearsome and bloodthirsty pirates the area has ever known.
Noted Rudolph Schmidt, who undertook the investigation, "To be certain, Mrs. McCartney, that is, Captain Timbershins, was anything but the saint she pretended to be after coming ashore to swindle Paul. That was all just her craft. Timbershins couldn't care less about the starving, abused creatures of the world. Her crew was known to have pillaged and sunk several United Nations ships attempting to provide relief for flood victims in Bangladesh in 1994, and on another occassion, upon discovering dozens of refugees in the stores of a cargo ship bound for America, Timbershins ordered the children and elderly thrown into the ocean before sailing to Kuala Lampur to sell the rest into slavery."
According to Schmidt, Timbershins' account of how she lost her leg was the first untruth he encountered, spurring the rest of the investigation.
"Timbershins said her leg was amputated at the knee as a result of trauma she sustained from being hit by a motorcycle, but this is patently false. There is no record of the purported accident. In fact, her leg was eaten by a shark sometime in the early 1980s, resulting in her current moniker," the report reads.
