Heather Mills is allegedly planning to move to the United States, now that the lengthy and bitter divorce from Sir Paul McCartney has ended.

Former model and current animal rights activist Heather Mills plans to leave her native England behind and move across the Atlantic, hopefully to Los Angeles and hopefully to a crowd that likes her.

Mills recently made her first major public appearance since her $48.6 million (£25 million) divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney. She was in Las Vegas this weekend, a member on the judging panel for the Miss USA Pageant.

She was booed though by parts of the audience once she appeared on the red carpet.

Britsh paper the Daily Mail quotes her as saying, “In England, people don't like me. But I'm going to move to America, Los Angeles hopefully. I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise I'll be better off in the States.”

Mills reportedly spent the evening conversing with Hollywood publicist Elliot Mintz, who helped Paris Hilton build her own fame, thus kindling speculation that the former Lady McCartney intends to win Americans on her side and that she wants Mintz on her team.

The 40-year-old has previously claimed Sir Paul would not allow her to live in America with their 4-year-old daughter Beatrice.

As to the unfriendy response at the pageant, she replied, “I really enjoyed myself. It was a great contest. If there was some negative reaction, what can you do? There will always be people like that.”

Earlier that week, Mills was on British television morning show GMTV and she once again lashed out at her former husband. Claiming that the veteran musician is dating three women at the same time, Mills wished them “the best of luck,” adding, “Better them than me.”

Mills did not come out of the divorce smelling of roses. The general public’s opinion of her as gold-digger and fantasist were reinforced by the judge who handled the divorce settlement.

Justice Hugh Bennett wrote in the High Court ruling that Mills made “exorbitant financial demands” and was “not just inconsistent and inaccurate, but also less than candid.”