Heather Mills, wife of Sir Paul McCartney, has been accused of failing to register her charity.
The Washington-born former swimwear model has been attacked by a New York columnist for failing to register her charity for the victim of landmines for six years.
The Charity Commission in the UK confirmed she only registered the organisation in 2000 after it contacted her.
The Heather Mills Health Trust recycles prosthetic limbs and sends them to landmine victims in war zones around the world.
The wife of the former Beatle, who lost her left leg below the knee after an accident with a police motorcycle, toured the country collecting unneeded limbs. In two years, the charity has helped 10,000 amputee children.
Her solicitor Stephen Taylor said she had been advised it was not worth applying for registration because it was a costly and time-consuming process for what was, at the time, a one-off project
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