Who hasn’t heard of the embittered divorce proceedings between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills? Nastiness ensued as Mills asked for a healthy sum of money for her four years with the music icon (was it really only four years - it seems so much longer, doesn’t it). She was awarded less than one-fifth of her original settlement demands. During the divorce battles, though, tales of McCartney’s real estate holdings have been making the rounds.

According to This is London, McCartney’s properties span the globe. And as fabulously wealthy as Sir Paul is, these luxury properties are no slouches.

The properties This is London mentioned include:

A town house in upmarket St. John’s Wood (London)

A mid-town Manhattan apartment

A house on Long Island

A home in Beverly Hills

Peasmarsh, a 1500-acre estate in East Sussex, where he spent a lot of time with his beloved first wife, Linda

A country retreat in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland

Additional homes in East Sussex, Essex, Somerset and Merseyside

There has been speculation on the ownership of the house in Beverly Hills. But some of Real Estalker’s sources insist that Sir Paul owns the place and it’s just in a trust in someone else’s name. (Apparently these days it’s not just all the gold in California that’s in Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name.) The obscenely rich Sir Paul intends to live quietly, though, spending much of his time at Peasmarsh or St. John’s Wood. Poor man. It seems he just can’t find the companionship he once had with his dear, departed Linda.