Beatle icon Paul McCartney is praising his late wife Linda's refusal to court publicity, unlike his ex. Heather Mills. In a moving tribute to Linda, who lost her battle with breast cancer, the legend has hailed her determination to keep their private life out of the news as one of her greatest assets. But Mills has developed an famous reputation for dragging intimate details of her private life and marriage to McCartney into the spotlight, most notably when she launched into a bitter rant on British TV show "GM:TV" last November. The former couple reached a divorce settlement last month, when a London court awarded Mills $48.6 million. Writing about Linda exclusively in the British newspaper The Sunday Times, McCartney says, "She didn't go on TV and say, 'This is who I am -- hello,' and try to ingratiate herself. We didn't need to do that -- it was our life, not theirs. We were too busy living it. "When anybody came to the house and met her, they thought she was fantastic. She was just a great person to hang with: very funny, very smart and very talented."
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