In court documents submitted in 2020, Mel B, a former Spice Girl, asked for an increase in child support payments since her income had “dramatically decreased.”
Melanie Brown, a former Spice Girl, saw an increase in child support from Eddie Murphy.
The 47-year-old English singer and the 61-year-old US actor agreed to split $61,000 a month after welcoming their daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown in 2007. She has just turned fifteen.
Murphy was paying $44,000 a month when Brown requested an increase in the payments in court records filed in 2020, alleging Murphy’s income had “dramatically reduced.”
According to court records that Daily Mail was able to receive from Brown’s attorneys, “Melanie has been fortunate in her profession to afford a decent lifestyle for herself and Angel up until lately.
Unfortunately, due of her income’s sharp decline, Melanie must now contemplate modifying child support for the first time.
Murphy, who is characterized in the document as a “extraordinarily high earner,” promised to make the additional payments in an August agreement starting in October of last year and continuing until Angel turns 18 years old. Additionally, he agreed to foot Brown’s legal fees.
Murphy, who is the father of eleven children by different women, didn’t start dating Angel until lately since he claimed fatherhood when Brown fell pregnant in 2006. Soon after, a paternity test confirmed it.
The two began dating following Murphy’s divorce from the actress Nicole Mitchell; however, their relationship ended before Angel was born.
Brown, who divorced Murphy in 2009 and published her memoir Brutally Honest in 2018, discussed their separation.
After talks to purchase a home fell through, the former Scary Spice claimed Murphy was the love of her life but that she had been “spectacularly dumped” after taking some time apart from him to consider their relationship.
After originally denying that he is Angel’s father, Murphy has gradually come to accept it.
I stated to Eddie, “I need a few days off. I need some time to think. Is it true, he questioned. What ought to you be thinking about?, Brown questioned in her book.
Brown claimed that she flew back to Los Angeles a few days after visiting her mother Andrea in Leeds in order to “make it work.”
While she was on the plane, a TV reporter asked Murphy about the pregnancy, to which he replied, “We’re not together anymore, and I don’t know whose that child is until it comes out and has a blood test.”
Brown called the emotion “sick, humiliated, and confused.”
Murphy contacted Brown to apologize for being caught off guard, she alleged, before completely shutting her off. Eddie, with whom I had been profoundly in love, passed away.
However, according to Brown, Murphy and his mother Lillian now have a significant impact on Angel’s life.
It’s strange because ever since his mother has entered my life, she has kept saying things like, “You’ve always been my favorite,” and I keep telling her to stop. Watching Angel spend her weekends with Eddie and getting to know the man she so resembles is one of my greatest joys in life.
She was also candid about her financial struggles after her contentious 2017 divorce from Stephen Belafonte.
“Over the past twenty years or so, I’ve made more than £80 million ($158 million). When I met my second husband, Stephen, I already had a house, a loft apartment in Los Angeles, and a well-established career. When I left him, I had US$936 ($1667) in a bank, according to Brown’s account in her book.
