Early and Personal Life
According to The Independent, his father Kenneth Mills, was a senior spy. At the end of World War II, Kenneth Mills was running MI5's operations from Gibraltar. Later, he was transferred to Jamaica and—according to a family legend—personally foiled an attempted revolution in Cuba.
Privately educated, Mills went to University College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister in 1968.
Mills has three children from his first marriage, including journalist Eleanor Mills, formerly editor of The Sunday Times News Review section and later editor of The Times Saturday edition.
In 1979, David Mills was married to Tessa Jowell, who had previously been married to social scientist Roger Jowell. Mills and Jowell had a son and daughter. In 2009, the couple owned houses in Kentish Town in north London and in Warwickshire.
In March 2006, after Jowell had claimed that Mills had not told her, until four years after the event, that Mills had been given £340,000 for his work for Silvio Berlusconi, the couple "agreed to a period of separation". However, questions have been raised as to the extent of this separation given that Mills and Jowell "appear, to all intents and purposes, very much a married couple."
Mills is the brother-in-law of Dame Barbara Mills QC, former Director of the Serious Fraud Office (1990–1992), Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998) and Adjudicator for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
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