Divorce Support Forums: McCartney "settlement": $125,000,000!

This isn't alimony, from what I understood, it was a property settlement. And it's what he thinks is fair. Actually, I understood that he initially offered 35 million pounds & after negotiations settled on 50 million pounds, which is closer to $101 million than to the $125 reported by JBar.... but ...

I dont' know whether she contributed to it... maybe she did. Maybe he wanted her doing charity work & following him around the world & having his baby rather than resuming to work & earn for herself. Maybe he simply wants his baby to be raised in a home where a particular standard is met. Maybe he decided that 5% of his holdings are what he'd give to charity this year & he's decided that his baby's mother is his favorite charity this year.

My point is that we don't know the details other than that the press has skewered her & that HE, her stbx, has come to her side to defend her on some of these issues. Truly, the negotiations fell apart only when someone reported that she was demanding 25% of his holdings rather than 5%, and from waht I understand, the parties are both saying that this is NOT what was going on... but the british tabloids can't leave it alone.

I just mean that we don't know all the details and if HE is OK with this settlement, who are WE to interfere & judge it? Why should we be vilifying the woman who will be raising his child? Poor kid, had he been born to saint Linda (I liked Linda, but good grief!)... the kid would be raised with everyone fawning all over her... but this one was born to the vile young woman who defiled thier Sir Paul, so Paul's youngest will be raised in a house that their press considers inferior, by a woman they consider inferior, and she will probably be inferior, herslef, no matter what she does in life.

If I were a member of the super-rich class, living a life of leisure & seeking trophy spouses, I'd maybe expect to pay a portion of my own sole & separate estate if the time came that I wanted to rid myself of the trophy. Not that it's what you & I, poor working stiffs, would feel is fair, but that's how THEY live, and who are we to criticize?

This settlement is an anomoly, it's newsworthy, it's ODD. And it's being made among people whose lives & values we cannot even pretend to guess at or put ourselves in their place. It just doesn't work to pretend that we know whether or not this is fair.

Oh, and if your'e looking at whether or not her contribution to his life in this past 6 years might have cused a 5% increase in his net worth... you BET... if he had his net worth invested in what most people do... stocks, homes, etc... then his net worth probably doubled in this past 6 years, and it's QUITE likely that a meager 5% of that 100% increase might be attributable to her efforts in some way. We don't know. We're not part of the negotiations, so we have no right to criticize it. And it's an odd, unusual and newsworthy situation, so we have no reason to fear it.

The british tabloids may be all about commenting on things they know nothign about, but why should we think we know enough to take up thier banner & proceed with thier criticisms of the settlement? It makes no sense. It's interesting, newsworthy, but what makes any of us think we have any reason to criticize it?