No sign of McCartney divorce deal

It could have been the greatest divorce court drama in British legal history as the former model fought for her share of the former Beatle's estimated £825 million fortune.

But the only information from Court 34 at the High Court in London was written on the door - Private No Admittance.

Former Beatle Sir Paul left the building with his barrister Nicholas Mostyn QC and the rest of his legal team.

Miss Mills, who is said to be representing herself in court, headed for her car with her private make-up artist in an entourage of seven.

Sir Paul and Miss Mills will be battling over money and access to their child after a marriage that lasted less than four years. They married in June 2002, four years after Sir Paul's first wife Linda, whom he married in 1969, died of breast cancer.

Sir Paul is at risk of now facing the biggest payout in British legal history.

But unless one of them takes issue with the settlement being hammered out behind closed doors in the Family Division of the High Court and goes to the Court of Appeal, the figures and details may never be known to the outside world.

There has been speculation among divorce experts, based on recent big money cases, that the settlement could reach £60 million.

This would exceed the record £48 million businessman John Charman was told by the courts to pay his former wife in May last year.