Mills, who refuses the discrimination claims against her, told the tribunal yesterday:

"Sara won't look at anyone in the eye because she is lying."

Mills, who employed Trumble when she was working as a masseuse for as little as £20 per week, starting speaking about herself in third person and continued:

"Overly helpful Heather, I offered her some way to help her better herself as I thought she had huge potential. I wasn't demanding and that's always been my problem... she actually worked the least hours of all my staff, I was the softest on her of all my staff."

Trumble accepts that while Mills bought her car, took her on holiday with other members of staff to celebrate her 39th birthday and was even invited by Mills to Sir Richard Branson's private Caribbean island, she suffered changes to her employment terms after taking maternity leave.

Despite Mills's generosity, she did deny Trumble £4,000 for breast implants shortly after the birth of her daughter.

Mills added:

"I do not accept that I discriminated against Sara in any way or that I treated her unfairly. I therefore have drawn the regretful conclusion that Sara has made these allegations against me purely to make money."

Says Heather, who was seeking £125million from Paul McCartney for four years of marriage but had to make do with just £23.5million instead.

The tribunal continues...