Mel B Obtains Restraining Order Against Her Estranged Husband

Mel B has obtained a restraining order against her now estranged husband, Stephen Belafonte, and this is based on some disturbing claims in her court declaration. According to the 41-year-old former Spice Girl, Stephen beat her, got their nanny pregnant and extorted her to take part in threesomes throughout their ten year marriage.

The restraining order forces him to stay away from her and her three children, also ordering him to leave the family home.

Mel, who filed for divorce from the producer last month, alleges that the abuse began during the first year of their marriage back in 2007. In 2014, cracks began to emerge when he was accused of physically abusing Mel after she appeared on The X Factor UK with bruises and scratches on her face and arms. Stephen then denied all suggestions of abuse and supposedly patched things up with her.

In her declaration shared by TMZ, Mel B tells a horrific story of abuse.

— November 2007, the night of her “Dancing with the Stars” finale, as she was getting ready at home, she says Stephen placed both of his hands around her neck, began choking her and slammed her down onto the hardwood floors. She says this was the pattern … when she achieved any measure of success, he would “beat me down to let me know he was in charge.”

— July 2012, while she was taping ‘X Factor,’ she was going to tape a segment with Usher, and Belafonte flew into a jealous rage, punched her with a closed fist in the face, splitting her lip. When she asked how she was supposed to work with the injury, he said she should have thought of that before deciding to “flirt with and f*** Usher.”

— August 2012, the day after performing at the closing ceremonies for the London Olympics, he punched her with a closed fist and pushed her down on the carpet. Her skin was burned from being pushed against the carpet and her face “actually scabbed over the rug burns.” He then forced her to tweet out she injured herself by running on 7″ Christian Louboutin heels.

— Mel B claims Stephen got their nanny pregnant. She says he told her he wanted to have the baby and “all three of us live together.” She says Stephen ultimately demanded the nanny get an abortion. She also says Stephen paid the nanny in excess of $300,000 of Mel B’s money “for alleged nanny services.”

— She also says in 2014, she was overcome with “emotional and physical exhaustion” and took an entire bottle of Aspirin. She tried calling 999 and he blocked her, throwing her in the bedroom, locking the door and “telling me to ‘die, bitch!’

— She says Stephen has sex tapes of her and repeatedly threatened to release them to ruin her career.

— And, she says, he forced her to “participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women” and he would often secretly record the encounters. She says when she tried to resist the 3-ways, he’d threaten to release the sex tapes.

— Mel B says she tried to leave him many times, but he “threatened me with violence and threatened to destroy my life in every possible way … destroy my career and take my kids from me.”

— Mel B says Stephen has a gun at home … a violation of law since he’s prohibited from carrying firearms as part of a domestic violence conviction involving another woman. She says the gun is either a .38 or .357 magnum