So Nancy Shevell is to marry Sir Paul McCartney, is she? That's the story today at least. Well, actually, the story seems to be made up out of rather less than whole cloth. What has in fact happened is that Nancy Shevell has won her divorce from her previous husband. Whether that means that she's going to get married again is rather another matter.

On the other hand, someone as famously uxorious as Sir Paul might well in fact pop the question to hte newly single Nancy Shevell.

Here's today's stories (or at least some of them) on Ms. Shevell:

 For more background on Nancy Shevell here's what we wrote about her when she was first tipped to be dating Sir Paul:

Nancy Shevell is Sir Paul McCartney's new squeeze. Shevell is
married and separated and from a wealthy North East family….which is
where things get interesting.

First, about Nancy Shevell herself:

Married American millionaireness, Nancy Shevell, who was seen kissing
Sir Paul McCartney, does not wear a wedding ring and has confirmed that
she is legally separated from her husband of 23 years.

Nancy, 47, confirmed the separation from her wealthy lawyer husband
Bruce Blakeman, 52, following the emergence of reports of her dates
with the former Beatle including one liaison at a London hotel on the
day of his High Court divorce hearing.

Previously known as Nancy Shevell Blakeman, she recently
dropped her husband's name and both have been seen without wedding
rings.

Something that I didn't already know is that Sir Paul and Nancy
Shevell have known each other for many years: she was a friend of his
first wife, Linda:

According to a source close to Ms Shevell and her husband, she and
Sir Paul have known each other for more than 10 years and she was a
friend of his first wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998.

Ms Shevell was diagnosed with breast cancer the year after Linda and the two women fought the disease together.

The source said: "Nancy was in her late thirties and no one apart from her closest friends and family knew she had cancer."

Then her lawyer husband, Bruce, made an emotional announcement during a
political meeting on Long Island, where he was a local councillor.

"Bruce was involved in this campaign to set up a centre of
excellence for breast cancer, a clinic called Hewlett House, and he
suddenly said: 'My wife has been fighting it for 18 months.'

Most people were shocked because Nancy is a really dynamic person and no one suspected she was seriously ill."

Shevell is also a prominent Republican in New York State and has been appointed to some official positions:

Nancy
        Shevell is vice president, Administration, of New England Motor
      Freight, Inc. (NEMF) and the Shevell Group of Companies. She is responsible
      for accounts receivable,
        corporate communications, benefits administration, purchasing of supplies
        and equipment, and overall office management.

Ms.
      Shevell joined NEMF in 1983 as manager of Administration and advanced
      to the post of director of Administration before being named to her present
      position in 1986.

She
      is co-chairperson of the Arlene Walters Shevell Endowment Scholarship Fund,
      a family foundation that provides support for self-help groups for parents
      of addicted children and financial support for individuals in accredited
      rehabilitation programs, and is active in numerous other
      charities and public interest organizations.

Ms.
      Shevell holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Arizona
      State University, where she majored in transportation and was the recipient
      of the Fred Hurley Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Transportation.

That she's a Republican might explain some of the ire that the Huffington Post seems to show towards her:

Paul McCartney's new love was once accused of having ties to the MAFIA through her family.

American beauty Nancy Shevell – seen kissing Macca on a string of
intimate dates – has made millions as vice-president of her family's
trucking company.

But the firm, New England Motor Freight, was accused by the US
government of making Mob pay-offs and linked to one of America's most
feared Mafia bosses.

But then trucking in the US has traditionally had such links: no one
really knows which bridge Jimmy Hoffa, the ex-leader of the Teamsters
Union, is holding up at present, for example.

And just for fun, here's some video of Sir Paul's current wife, Heather Mills, defending his dating Nancy Shevell.