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The estranged wife of pop legend Paul McCartney is to receive £25 million ($62.18 million) in a hard-fought and long-awaited divorce deal, a newspaper reports.
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 was to be handed down yesterday, the paper said, citing a source close to the case which has dragged on for two years. "The judgment 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. 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. They announced an "amicable" split in May 2006. Their dealings since then have been anything but friendly.
