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Melanie Brown, aka Mel B, may have to file for bankruptcy if she can’t convince a judge to increase her child support from Eddie Murphy.
The Spice Girls singer has reportedly claimed she’ll go bankrupt if ordered to pay $500,000 to her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte. She requested an increase in child support from Eddie to offset her increased living expenses due to the Covid outbreak.
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Mel B, who is mom to the comedian and actor’s 13-year-old daughter Angel Iris Murphy, has asked the court to allow her access to Eddie’s financial records.
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The 45-year-old English singer (pictured with Belafonte in 2014) was “devastated” when Eddie announced they were no longer a romantic item on a Dutch TV show in 2006.
“I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a test,” he said about their unborn daughter.
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Eddie continually denied Angel was his until a paternity test confirmed he was the father in 2007.
The 59-year-old comic previously agreed to pay Mel $25,000 -a-month in child support, as well as cover Angel’s health insurance and her educational costs.
Mel B was ordered by a Los Angeles judge to cover $400,000 in legal fees and $100,000 in accounting fees for her ex-husband following their 2017 divorce.
According to MailOnline, Mel told L.A. Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas she is having financial difficulties.
She wrote: “I will effectively be insolvent and will in all likelihood have to file for bankruptcy. I simply do not have the ability to pay such an exorbitant sum.”
She told the court she’s been unable to work due to the coronavirus lockdowns.
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Angel (far right) is one of Eddie’s nine kids, who range in age from 22 months to 31.
Mel shares her eldest daughter Phoenix, 21 (left), with ex-husband Jimmy Gulzar, and daughter Madison, 9 (2nd from left), with Belafonte.