Sir Paul McCartney Is Putting The Kids First In Marriage Number Three

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Obviously Sir Paul McCartney has not taken the valuable life lessons that one learns at the knee of Great White to heart and has chosen to ignore the sage advice of ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’.

Don’t judge me because I look to rock lyrics for guidance. Just don’t. Anyway.

Paul McCartney has opted to not sign a pre-nuptial agreement before marrying his girlfriend Nancy Shevell despite having to fork over more than 48 million in the divorce settlement with his last wife, the waste of space known as Heather Mills.

Dude really thinks all you need is love. Isn’t that romantic?

*sigh* I guess one can afford to be confident in relationships when one is estimated to be worth over 700 million dollars.

Excuse me while I dream about what I’d do with 700 million dollars. OK, I’m back with visions of closets dedicated to shoes and pool boys named Raul dancing in my head. Anyway.

On further reflection of Sir Paul’s decision to not protect his assets, it does appear that this situation is completely different from his massive mistake of marrying ol’ Gold Digger Mills McGee. First and foremost, his bride Nancy Shevell is independently wealthy and there isn’t one whiff of money-grubbing behavior to be found. Nancy is also reportedly not an attention-whore which is probably what bothered me most with his marriage to *spits on floor* Heather Mills. Sorry, I must do that every time I say her name or I gag. Heather Mills obviously loved hooking up with one of the most famous men in the world and I know I wasn’t alone when screaming ‘what the hell are you thinking Paul?’ anytime I saw a story about their relationship. I had the entire British press on my side and they are a particularly vicious pack of trolls.

Another factor that makes this marriage seem completely different is the fact that Paul’s children approve of his new bride. Rich and famous or poor and unknown, having a child’s approval makes a relationship stronger. When you marry someone with children — even adult children — you get an instant family, no need to add water! And if the instant family doesn’t mix, well it ain’t pretty.

According to reports, the only agreement that Paul and Nancy have signed prior to the upcoming wedding is a single page note that basically says if the marriage doesn’t work out, she cannot touch any of his children’s trust funds. I’m glad he is protecting the children’s money even if he is leaving his assets open to a spanking, I mean beating.

So what do you think: is Sir Paul crazy not to have a prenuptial in place or just crazy in love?

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  • Molly

    Inexplicable! And I love anyone who lives he life by Great White!

    Do you think he did the math and thought, “I’ll live this much longer an can afford to lose half my shit one more time?”

    • http://www.motherbumper.com katie | motherbumper

      What I find most mind blowing is when he lost that 48 million to *spit* Ms. Mills, that was less than 15% of his money pile. 15% too much mind you but still… 15% of my money pile is 15 cents.

      • norm

        15% of my money pile is about negative fifteen thousand dollars. WHOO MORTGAGE.

  • Andrea

    What I don’t understand is why he’s getting married at all. I get that they love each other and want to be together, but what’s the point of marriage at their age? It’s not like they’re going to have kids (and, yes, I know that kids are not the only reason to get married). I say this as a happily married woman with 2 young children. I love my husband and my life with him, but if something were to happen to him and I was single again, while I hope that I would fall in love and be in a long term relationship again, I cannot see any reason to go through the hassle of a legal marriage a second time. McCartney and Shevell are wealthy, so they aren’t worried about medical insurance, pension, or social security rights. They can easily have attorneys draw up papers so that they have rights to make medical and other decisions if and when the time comes. Why bother?

    • http://www.soiwrote.com G.G.R

      Asking an attorney to draw up papers sounds so boring compared to “We’re in love – let’s have a party!!!”

    • http://anniegirl1138.com annie

      Being married and just living together isn’t the same thing. I remarried about 15 months after my first husband died. We were in our early forties with kids between us and I suppose no incentive to legalize things at “our age” b/c we weren’t going to have more children, and we could have just lawyered up and gotten “documents” to protect us – but isn’t that really the same thing as marrying minus the party and pledged commitment?

      What annoys me is Sir Paul’s seeking approval from his kids, whom I am betting didn’t seek his input when the paired up b/c grown kids will inflict their mates on you and expect you to suck it up in silence but not the other way around. We were considerate of our children’s initial reservations but we drew the line at their getting any input and all is well. Sometimes you just have to be the parent and expect them to behave like you didn’t raise them in a trailer park.

      • Jilliana

        I’m sorry, I tried to drive by this comment, but I can’t.

        First off, we don’t really know that his kids foisted their spouses on anyone. Secondly, while your situation worked for you, it didn’t include a lengthy and high-profile divorce that put your family in an even bigger and more uncomfortable spotlight than usual. Given Sir Paul’s rather dubious choice of a second wife, perhaps asking his kids was a way of acknowledging past mistakes. Is it really ever a bad thing for a parent to involve their kids in their second/third/tenth marriage?

        As it is, I think it was probably just a formality anyway, since the couple has already been together for four years.

        • http://anniegirl1138.com annie

          No we don’t know about his kids’ relationship but my point was the adult kids don’t ask and therefore don’t really have the right of first refusal when their parents remarry. Sir Paul certainly had a poor second marriage but that doesn’t give his kids any rights in the next one – although one would hope he thanked them at least for whatever support they gave him. We have this idea as a society that our kids should have input into our lives that borders on the not particularly healthy for anyone involved. His situation doesn’t make him a very accessible example in any case but it highlights the odd idea we all seem to have about our parents lives somehow being our property too. We grow up and have lives of our own and should allow our parents the same. jmo

          • Mona

            Well, maybe his kids get extra special input because they were so set against Heather Mills. SO they seem to have at least a good sense of things as far as that went…

          • http://swanfeet.wordpress.com/ ladyphlogiston

            seems to me they can *give* their input without him seeking it. In my experience people tend to do that whether you want them to or not.

            I have heard that having a lawyer draw up papers for medical and financial decisions doesn’t work as well as it should – that it sometimes gets ignored by doctors and whatnot because they aren’t married so it “doesn’t count.” I don’t know if that’s true or common; it’s just one of the arguments I’ve heard for gay marriage. It does seem to be true that marriage is a shortcut for many of the legal changes they might want to make.

            and for all I know, she may just want a big poofy wedding dress :)

  • DianaCLT

    Is it just me, or does the next Mrs. Paul McCartney look eerily like John Lennon?

    • http://www.motherbumper.com katie | motherbumper

      OH MY GAWD! I knew she reminded me of someone. Woah, now that is a whole mess of Freudian something-majigger right there.

      • DianaCLT

        LMAO! I know, right?!?