Mel B’s ex-husband, Stephen Belafonte, is taking the previous Spice Girls vocalist to court, charging her of character assassination and trying to “create him extreme psychological distress and damage his track record.”
According to court records gotten by ET, which were submitted on Wednesday in Florida, Belafonte declares that the former America’s Got Skill judge— whose actual name is Melanie Brown– has actually “invested the bulk of the last years participating in an intentional and considerable project” to libel him and wreck his life and occupation.
” Ms. Brown has actually quit at absolutely nothing to wrongly bill [Belafonte] with criminal activities and terrible offenses, consisting of physical poundings, rape, economic misuse, psychological misuse, sex trafficking, and unlawful weapon belongings,” the records declare.
Mel B wedded Belafonte in June 2007 and filed for separation in March 2017. Belafonte has actually had key protection of their 12-year-old child, Madison, given that 2019.
Mel B is likewise the mother of 2 various other kids– 25-year-old child Phoenix az Brown, whom she shows to ex-husband Jimmy Gulzar, and 17-year-old child Angel from her quick connection with Eddie Murphy.
Belafonte declares that Mel B initial sullied him “with a deceptive case of residential physical violence in 2017,” however that she disregarded the case prior to he “had his day in court” to protect himself.
Prior to her separation from Belafonte obtaining finalized at the end of 2017, Mel B had actually filed a short-lived limiting order versus him declaring both physical and sexual assault, which she declares to have actually started not long after they were wed in 2007. Belafonte refuted the allegations, and Mel B disregarded the demand.
Belafonte’s suit better declares that Mel B’s affirmed “project of misuse” proceeded with the re-publishing of her 2018 narrative, Brutally Honest.
Belafonte suggests that guide– that makes countless allegations of misuse versus Belafonte– is an instance of exactly how Mel B has presumably “leveraged her thirty years of popularity to assault Mr. Belafonte in a destructive and vengeful worldwide smear.”
” Ms. Brown has actually been benefiting off of her public exists as she depicts Mr. Belafonte as a ‘beast’ on worldwide tv and media looks and in her paradoxically called publication,” the records assert. “[Her] unrelenting strikes have actually been determined to make sure optimum protection of her incorrect stories and specific optimum damages to Mr. Belafonte’s track record and mood.”
The suit declares that Belafonte did not formerly file a claim against Mel B “in order to safeguard his young child from a dragged out and public lawsuits.”
Additionally, Belafonte declares that– given that he has actually had protection of Madison, that deals with him in the USA– Mel B “has actually hardly kept a connection” with their child. He declares Mel B has actually just seen her when in the previous 4 years, “despite the fact that she has actually flown to the USA, for occupational looks and insulations, on several celebrations.”
Belafonte is demanding “no much less than $5 million” in offsetting problems, in addition to punishing and excellent problems, and is looking for a test by court.
ET has actually connected to associates for Mel B for remark.
Back in March, Mel B spoke with BBC about the shame she really felt after leaving The golden state and taking a trip hundreds of miles to her home town of Leeds, to ensure that she can relocate right into her mother’s cottage following her split from Belafonte.
Mel B has actually asserted countless times that Belafonte abused her physically throughout their marital relationship. Nonetheless, surpassing her previous declarations, Mel B talked with the BBC about what she called “economic misuse” also.
” I had not been simply mentally and literally over used, there was all the economic misuse, as well. I really did not understand that I really did not have as much cash as I assumed I had. So I actually needed to consume modest pie, deal with my mum,” she informed BBC.
Despite getting on a sold-out excursion with the Seasoning Ladies when she determined to relocate home, Mel B claimed that she needed to find out to live “frugally” in the years after their separation– consisting of purchasing on a budget plan and just lately having the ability to pay for a home by herself.
Separation documents reveal that the vocalist was purchased to pay Belafonte $350,000 as component of their negotiation and $5,000 a month in kid assistance for their child.
Belafonte, a movie manufacturer, has repeatedly denied her claims given that she initially spoke up, calling them “horrendous and misguided.”
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