Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney had a bitter row over their four-year-old daughter Beatrice over the festive period, it has been claimed. The pair - who ended their short-lived marriage 18 months ago - reportedly had a series of furious rows over Christmas, the first when they met to exchange daughter Beatrice.
Mills - who is reportedly planning to sell her East Sussex mansion in order to foot her huge legal bill, accused her estranged husband of stringing out the settlement talks to "starve her out".
She also claimed he was trying to buy his daughter's affection by shelling out £15,000 on extravagant Christmas gifts for the youngster.
Sources close to the McCartney family claim the arguments had made for a miserable Christmas.
"It all started off at the handover of Beatrice," one source told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. "Paul said to Heather, in what she evidently thought was a sarcastic tone, 'Happy Christmas'.
"Heather replied, 'Happy f***ing Christmas?'. And with that, she laid into him - saying she thought he'd ruined Beatrice's Christmas by not settling the divorce by now.
"She told him that she was on the edge, at her wits' end and really feeling under pressure financially." The source claimed that Sir Paul, 65, had advised Heather to raise money by re-mortgaging the £3.5million house he had bought for her. "It was at that point that Heather started pleading with him that she was desperate for it not to go to court, because she couldn't afford good lawyers. She said that it could turn very nasty if that happened.
"Paul came back saying it had all gone too far to go back now.
"He criticized her again for that notorious rant on GMTV, saying that broke the agreement they had."
The source continued: "Heather came back telling him he was just trying to starve her out.
"She was ranting. saying how mean he was being in the so-called season of goodwill. Tensions flared up again when Beatrice received her presents from her father."
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Paul showered Beatrice with a top-of-the-range sound system, a karaoke machine, a miniature car, Barbie dolls, dress outfits, a large selection of classical and pop CDs, an electric guitar and a keyboard player.
"Heather felt that Paul had really gone to town on the presents just to show her up," the source continued.
"Against Heather's presents of books about natural history and clothes and some pretty, girly things for her, Paul's presents really stood out."
The source also said that Heather, dubbed Mucca by British tabloids due to her porn past, also felt that the music legend's choices of gifts were inappropriate.
"She was saying what a terrible role model Barbie was for Bea.
"And she was saying how annoyed she was that Paul appeared to be trying to push her into music.
"The truth of it, of course, was more likely that Paul just wanted to make it a Christmas to remember for Bea."
Former glamor model Heather, the source said, hit back by suggesting she might want to move with Beatrice to the U.S. - where offers "have been pouring in".
The source added: "Heather knows how to push Paul's buttons."
Mills - who reportedly held a £30k New Year's party at her East Sussex estate, is also said to have brought into the discussion her urgent need for hip surgery, which might delay their divorce proceedings.
The couple are due to go to court in February unless they settle [out of court] before then.
Reps for both Heather and Sir Paul refused to comment last night.
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