In 2004 she published a memoir of her love affairs with some of the most famous names in Hollywood, including Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Howard Hughes.

Hughes quit Hollywood in 1994, but is said to have left behind boxes of notebooks and computer files containing film ideas and screenplays after his death last year.

Justice Hugh Bennett said the petition for divorce by Mills was granted on the grounds that the couple had lived apart for two years.