HEATHER Mills McCartney will sue two British newspapers over "false, damaging and immensely upsetting" statements concerning her divorce from pop legend Paul McCartney, her lawyers have said.
The national Daily Mail and London's Evening Standard will be hit with legal proceedings, law firm Mishcon de Reya said, adding that legal action would also be taken against The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling daily.
Mills McCartney, 38, was being vilified in the media and stalked by photographers, her legal representatives said in a statement.
Her time and resources are not infinite. She cannot sue - for now, at least - every single newspaper that has published false, damaging, and immensely upsetting statements about her, it said.
She should not thereby be taken to have accepted that these statements are true.
It would appear that the media has concluded that there are no limits to what may be said about, or done to, our client.
The McCartneys' divorce was all over the front of British newspapers last week after Mills McCartney's legal papers were apparently leaked.
The document alleged that Beatles star McCartney had been physically violent towards her and acted in a vindictive, punitive manner during their four years of marriage.
McCartney said through his lawyers that he would vigorously defend himself in the divorce proceedings.
Mills McCartney's lawyers also said it was entirely false that she had been offered a $74.142 million divorce settlement by her husband.
The 64-year-old musician has an estimated $2.04 billion fortune.
The truth is that no settlement offer, in any amount, has been made.
She is pursued everywhere she goes, her lawyers said.
She is stalked by press photographers, who congregate outside her home and chase after her in cars - regardless of her safety or the safety of her daughter.
Meanwhile Britain's domestic Press Association news agency, which was anonymously faxed the leaked documents last Tuesday, said they believed it had been sent from a small newsagent's shop in central London.
PA did not run the story because it was unable to authenticate the document and had other legal concerns with it.
McCartney married former model Heather Mills in 2002. In May this year they said they had agreed with sadness to go their separate ways.
They have a two-year-old daughter called Beatrice.
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