前“披頭士”成員麥卡特尼正式離婚

The ill-fated marriage of former Beatle Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills came to a formal end during a 30-second hearing at London's High Court on Monday.

Justice Hugh Bennett said the petition for divorce by Mills was granted on the grounds that the couple had lived apart for two years.

Neither McCartney nor Mills were in court for the decree nisi.

Bennett said: "On the petition for divorce presented by Miss Heather Mills, I pronounce the decree nisi of divorce on the grounds of two years' separation.

"Sir Paul McCartney has consented to the decree being granted on these grounds."

The brief hearing contrasted with the protracted and bitter fight over the divorce settlement earlier this year.

In March, the judge blasted Mills, branding her evidence as "inconsistent and inaccurate."

He ended up awarding Mills 24.3 million pounds -- a fifth of the sum she had been seeking. That still gave her the equivalent of about $34,000 for each day of the four-year marriage.

McCartney married the former model and charity campaigner in 2002, four years after his first wife Linda died of breast cancer. They have a daughter, Beatrice.

前“披頭士”樂隊成員保羅•麥卡特尼與其感情不和的妻子希瑟•米爾斯於本週一正式離婚。當天倫敦高級法院的庭審僅用了30秒鐘。

法官休•本尼特說，鑑於麥卡特尼和米爾斯已分居兩年的事實，米爾斯提出的離婚訴訟請求獲准。

麥卡特尼和米爾斯當天都沒有出庭。

本尼特宣佈：“根據希瑟•米爾斯女士提出的離婚訴訟請求，基於夫婦兩人分居兩年的事實，經法院裁定，准許兩人離婚。”

“麥卡特尼爵士已接受這一判決。”

這次結案庭審十分簡短，與年初時的庭審現場形成鮮明對比，當時兩人因離婚協議問題吵得不可開交，庭審遲遲不決。

在3月份的審理中，本尼特法官裁定米爾斯提出的證據“前後矛盾、不合情理”。

最後他裁定，米爾斯將得到2430萬英鎊的離婚贍養費，儘管這僅爲她所要求數額的五分之一，但這已相當於麥卡特尼在結婚四年中每天向她支付3.4萬美元的費用。

在第一任妻子琳達因乳腺癌病逝四年後，2002年，麥卡特尼與前名模、慈善活動家米爾斯結婚。兩人有一個女兒比阿特麗斯