American retailer J. Crew is banning fur from its product line. Heather Mills McCartney, the wife of rocker Paul McCartney, has been waging a public battle along with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the $800 million a year chain's use of fur.

"It's very, very exciting," McCartney told the New York Daily News, adding she cried when she heard the news Wednesday. A J. Crew spokesman said PETA had no bearing on the retailer's fur ban, which he called "a business" decision, the newspaper said. "The bottom line is that it doesn't matter how it came about," McCartney said, "the who, what and when -- the important thing is that they made the right decision."