Mills Stiffs Fellow Amputee

Beatle's ex ignores pledge to pay for new legs
By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser Staff
Posted May 12, 2008 1:25 PM CDT
Mills Stiffs Fellow Amputee
Heather Mills leaves the central London's Royal Courts of Justice, following the announcement of the judgment of her divorce with Sir Paul McCartney, Monday March 17, 2008. A judge has awarded Heather Mills a total of 24.3 million pounds (US$48.7 million; euro30.88 million) in the financial settlement...   (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Heather Mills has reneged on a well-publicized promise she made to pick up the $20,000 tab for artificial legs for a Russian woman who lost her limbs in a train accident, the News of the World reports. After the photo op and documented promises 4 years ago, the 28-year-old mother was left to beg from a skateboard on the Moscow streets.

"Heather rang us and emailed us repeatedly with promises to pay for Maria's legs,” a British couple said of their attempts to help Maria Rybkina get new legs. "But every single promise she made fell flat." (More Heather Mills stories.)

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