The truth behind Sir Paul's success
Long past the heyday of The Beatles, Paul McCartney offered a lift one day to a young film-maker, telling him to throw a sackful of letters on the front seat into the back of the car. ‘Go ahead and read one,’ he told David Litchfield. ‘They’re all the same.’ Litchfield leafed through the letters with growing disbelief. Every single one was from a woman who claimed she’d slept with McCartney — and had subsequently given birth to his child. ‘Some of [the letters] are really impressive,’ McCartney told Litchfield. ‘They come with lawyers’ letters and exact details of when and where — and I start racking my brains and thinking to myself: “Maybe I did once have sex with her.”’
The year was 1983. The ex-Beatle had by then been happily married for 14 years — yet still the claims were pouring in. Even the historical ones could prove troublesome. That very year, a woman called Erika Hubers had gone before a Berlin judge, claiming that McCartney had fathered her daughter, Bettina, during The Beatles’ visits to Hamburg in the early Sixties. The former waitress wanted £1.75 million — but a blood test proved that he couldn’t be the father.
Still unconvinced, Hubers alleged that McCartney must have used a stand-in for the test, and he was told to retake it. In the meantime, the judge ordered him to pay his supposed daughter £175 a month. Again, the blood-test exonerated him. For Hubers herself, this meant financial ruin — until McCartney stepped in to settle all her legal costs. Whether he’d ever slept with her or not, he’d long since lost count of all the women who’d flitted through his life. Since his late teens, sex had always been on offer.
By: Phillip Norman
Source: Daily Mail
