McCartney’s then girlfriend, the actress Jane Asher, helped him select High Park from a pile of properties for sale, and visited it with him.īut it was Linda, Lady McCartney, who took the place to her heart, renovating the three-bedroom farmhouse while Paul installed a recording studio. The year was 1966, Eleanor Rigby was playing on the nation’s radios and the lad from Liverpool was enjoying his first season as a millionaire. It is thought to have been bought initially to minimise the young McCartney’s exposure to tax. That High Park Farm survives in Sir Paul’s portfolio is due mainly to sentiment. The judge calculated McCartney’s fortune at half that and awarded Mills £24 million.ĭuring the hearing, the extent of Sir Paul’s property empire became known, including the obligatory repertoire of superstar homes in London, Manhattan, the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, as well as his farm in Sussex and house in Arizona. Miss Mills demanded £125 million from her former husband, claiming his fortune amounted to some £800 million. Such fortunes are rarely subject to detailed public analysis, but a light was shone on the singer’s wealth in 2008 when he faced his second wife, Heather Mills, across the floor of the High Court in London to hammer out a divorce settlement. It is believed that the musician initially bought the farm to minimise his exposure to tax
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