In this file photo Paul McCartney (L) and his now ex-wife Heather Mills McCartney arrive at the fourth Annual Adopt-A-Minefield Gala in Los Angeles, October 15, 2004. McCartney on Wednesday declined to comment on reported claims by Mills McCartney that he physically attacked her during their tempestuous four-year marriage.. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonLONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney vowed on Wednesday to defend himself in court against accusations published in a British newspaper that he physically attacked his estranged wife Heather during their four-year marriage.
"Our client will be defending these allegations vigorously and appropriately," McCartney's lawyers Payne Hicks Beach said in a statement.
"Since the breakdown of his marriage Sir Paul McCartney has maintained his silence in not commenting on the media stories believing that it was best for all concerned, particularly his children, for there to be some dignity in what is a private matter," the statement said.
"Our client would very much like to respond in public and in detail to the allegations made recently against him by his wife and published in the press but he recognises, on advice, that the only correct forum for his response to the allegations made against him is in the current divorce proceedings."