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Heather Mills will have to buy her own Hamptons home.

In the weeks since a British judge handed down a decision in the bitter divorce battle between Sir Paul McCartney and estranged wife Heather Mills, copies of the judgment have been leaked and have surfaced on the internet. Included in a copy of the judgment found on the Smoking Gun Web site are details of the former Beatle’s assets, including some real estate here on Long Island that Mills sought to obtain in the divorce settlement.

According to the document, in 1998, several months after his late wife Linda’s death, McCartney purchased a home on Pintail Lane in East Hampton. By August 1999, McCartney had taken Mills on vacation to the wood-frame home. That home, according to the document, and another in Manhattan, were among the assets that Mills sought to obtain.

But the judge did not grant Mills's request.

“In my judgment, her case overlooks the fact that all of the husband’s properties were acquired before their marriage, in some cases long before…I see no justification whatever for the homes on Long Island or in New York City.”

Paul McCartney’s links to the Hamptons go back to the early days with his late wife, Linda Eastman. McCartney told the court that prior to his marriage to Heather Mills, his need for a security detail was minimal. “There was an off-duty police officer who provided night cover when I was at Long Island, and on trips to and from the airport ... this was how I lived with my first wife and four children.”

According to McCartney, things changed after his marriage to Mills and the birth of daughter, Beatrice, in 2003. Mills then insisted on a heavy increase in their security detail to shield her from paparazzi. In 2005, he told the court, he spent about $70,000 on security in the United States alone.

In September 2006, the Daily Mail published details of McCartney’s Hamptons real estate holdings, including eight acres of land that surround the house, puchased under the corporate name Oakleaf Investments.

For more on McCartney's longstanding connection to the Hamptons, see here.