Mel B Claims Husband Beat, Sexually Exploited Her 
 
 Mel B Claims Husband Stephen Belafonte Beat, Sexually Exploited Her 
 
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 Mel B claims estranged husband Stephen Belafonte was a monster, brutally beating her, extorting her into doing 3-ways with other women and threatening to release sex tapes ... and now she says she and her children fear for their lives. 
 
 Mel B's lawyers got a restraining order Monday, forcing Belafonte to stay away from Mel and her 3 kids and ordering him to leave the family home. 
 
 In her declaration, Mel B tells a horrific story of abuse. Here are some of her allegations: 
 
 -- 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. 
 
 TMZ broke the story ... agents from the Dept. of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms served a search warrant on Belafonte Friday night after his brother made claims Stephen had the gun. Mel claims Stephen kept the gun in a lockbox in the bedroom closet. She says ATF agents did not find the gun. 
 
 In addition to getting the restraining order, the judge ordered Stephen to leave the family home in the Hollywood Hills. He went to the house late Monday afternoon, packed up some of his stuff, and told our photog the allegations were untrue. ||||| Mel B Belafonte Beat Me Physically And Beat Me Down Emotionally 
 
 Mel B Says Husband Stephen Belafonte Beat Me Physically and Beat Me Down Emotionally 
 
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 Mel B says she was emotionally weak when she married Stephen Belafonte, but it soon became apparent ... whenever she achieved success, he would literally beat her down to maintain control. 
 
 Mel B got a restraining order Monday, forcing Belafonte to leave the family home and stay clear of her and her 3 kids. In her declaration, she recounts why she married him. She says, "At the time, I was vulnerable. I was giving birth as a single mother, my self-esteem was very low, and my hormones were out of balance due to the pregnancy." 
 
 She says Belafonte "rushed in to help me in every way," saying in the beginning he was nice and supportive. 
 
 Shortly after they got married, Mel B says things changed dramatically. She says he would tell her she was "worthless, that he made me 'who I am,' that no one knows how really stupid I am." 
 
 She says he destroyed her self-confidence and self-esteem, especially because she was struggling to lose her pregnancy weight. 
 
 Mel B says she lived in abject fear he would make good on his threat to release sex tapes of them he recorded, threatening to ruin her career. She also says he threatened to release the videos to Children's Services in an attempt to have the kids taken away. 
 
 As we reported, she says it got so bad, in December 2014, she tried committing suicide by swallowing an entire bottle of Aspirin. 
 
 She says the final humiliation was when he allegedly began having sex with their nanny, got her pregnant and told her they should all just live together. She says she got up the gumption to fire the nanny and leave him, but he fired back that the nanny would leak damaging stories to the media and Children's Services. She was so scared she re-hired the nanny and stayed with him. 
 
 Even after separating from him in December, she began posting messages suggesting she and Belafonte were working things out. She says what finally gave her the push was her father dying last month. She says Belafonte said, "Suck it up. If he's going to die, he's going to die," and that was the final straw. 
 
 Belafonte tells TMZ he questions the motives of her accusations. ||||| Mel B Abuse by Husband Seen By Many, Authorities Not Called 
 
 Mel B Says Abuse by Husband Stephen Belafonte Seen By Many, Authorities Not Called 
 
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 Mel B says she has been the victim of horrific brutality at the hands of husband Stephen Belafonte for nearly a decade, and lots of people around her saw her injuries but it appears most of them bought her stories that made no sense. 
 
 TMZ broke the story, Mel B got a restraining order Monday against Belafonte, claiming he beat her, choked her and threw her to the ground on multiple occasions. According to the documents, after an alleged beating in 2012 over Belafonte's jealousy of Usher, producers of 'X Factor' (Australia) noticed swelling on her face and asked for a physician. She claimed it was an allergic reaction to shellfish and according to the document, the doctor on set bought her story. 
 
 She was also forced to miss a filming of 'X Factor' (UK) in late 2014 because her injuries were so bad they could not be covered by theatrical makeup. When she finally returned, she still had visible facial and body wounds yet no one sounded the alarm. 
 
 Around the same time, things got so bad, Mel B tried to take her own life by swallowing an entire bottle of Aspirin. She had a change of heart, tried calling 999, but she says Belafonte prevented her from doing so. At some point she says her friend, Randy, came over but Belafonte forced him to leave. Randy called an ambulance but Belafonte turned it away. Authorities were not alerted. 
 
 The next day, her driver showed up to take her to work and saw such extensive injuries he took her to the hospital, where she spent 2 days with security standing guard outside her room to keep Belafonte away. Yet authorities again were not alerted. 
 
 She returned again to 'X Factor' (UK) with visible facial and body wounds, which producers attempted to cover up. Again, authorities not called. 
 
 When she was back in L.A. she told 'X Factor' "employers" she had attempted suicide to escape from the abuse at the hands of Belafonte. She says they offered assistance to get her away from Belafonte, but it appears authorities were not contacted and she went back to living with him. 
 
 Mel B says throughout the years, Belafonte would harass and intimidate her agents, producers and co-stars, and they complained to her he was "abusive and demanding," and he was adversely affecting her business ... but again, it appears authorities were not contacted. 
 
 Belafonte tells TMZ he questions the motives of her accusations. ||||| CLOSE Citing sex and alcohol addiction, Mel B told British tabloid The Sun she'll be entering a rehab facility in the U.K. Wochit 
 
 Mel B opens up about attempting suicide in 2014. (Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix, Getty Images) 
 
 Melanie Brown is opening up about her 2014 suicide attempt. 
 
 In an excerpt from her memoir, "Brutally Honest," the former Spice Girl admitted to taking "nearly 200 aspirin pills" in an attempt to escape her tumultuous marriage to producer Stephen Belafonte. 
 
 "I'll be wearing a beautiful dress, my hair and make-up will be perfect. But if you want the absolute truth, I don’t care about any of it. My life is a mess and I want out," she wrote in an excerpt published in Britain's The Sun. 
 
 On Dec., 11, 2014, the night before filming the U.K.'s "The X Factor," Brown said she started popping over-the-counter pills in her London home bathroom after returning from dinner with Belafonte. 
 
 "As each pill goes into my mouth, I ask myself: 'Are you sure?' And I take another one. Ten, 20, 50, 100. 'Are you sure?'" she wrote. "One hundred and 20. 'Are you sure?' 150. 'Are you sure?'" 
 
 She continued: "Behind the glitter of fame, I felt emotionally battered, estranged from my family. I felt ugly and detested by the very man who once promised to love and protect me, my husband and manager Stephen." 
 
 Related: Mel B clarifies rehab reports: 'No, I’m not an alcoholic. No, I’m not a sex addict.' 
 
 Brown claimed her husband at the time was threatening her career and family with a "library of sex tapes." 
 
 After writing her daughters a suicide note and taking the 200th pill, Brown wrote: "As soon as I’d swallowed that last pill, I knew I didn’t want to go anywhere. …Suicide was not the answer. I had to make my life count."Brown said she suffered many bruises on her face and shoulder after hitting a jammed door while attempting to get help. The singer was hospitalized with liver and kidney damage, calling the moment she faced her daughter Phoenix "the saddest moment of my life." 
 
 Related: Heidi Klum and more fellow 'AGT' judges speak out in support of Mel 
 
 Simon Cowell (second, right) poses with hosts of "America's Got Talent" Heidi Klum (left), Howie Mandel and Mel B (right) during a ceremony honoring Cowell with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 22 August 2018. (Photo: MIKE NELSON, EPA-EFE) 
 
 She appeared days later on "The X Factor" with her injuries visible. 
 
 "I would stand proud in this stunning white dress, the marks of my agony all over me. … I needed all those bruises to be seen," she wrote. "I’ve sent my message to Stephen. There’s no going back. I’m going to leave him, get a divorce. I’m going to be free." 
 
 Brown and Belafonte divorced last year following a lengthy battle in which Brown accused her ex of beating and threatening her throughout their 10-year marriage. 
 
 "Brutally Honest" is out Nov. 27. 
 
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– Mel B filed last month to divorce husband Stephen Belafonte, from whom she's been separated since December; now the Spice Girl has leveled serious abuse allegations against him. She got a restraining order against Belafonte on Monday that bars him from her and their three children, TMZ reports, and in the declaration, she says he's been physically abusing her, including choking her and punching her, since at least 2007. She says he also sexually abused her, forcing her to participate in three-ways that he sometimes taped, and that he has threatened to release the tapes to hurt her career—or to release them to Children's Services in an attempt to get her parental rights taken away. She says that in 2014 she attempted suicide by taking a bottle of aspirin, but then tried to call emergency services. Belafonte blocked her from doing so, she says, and locked her in the bedroom while telling her to die. She claims that every time she tried to leave, he threatened to destroy her life and take the children. She says that he got their nanny pregnant and suggested all of them live together, though ultimately, she claims, Belafonte demanded the nanny terminate the pregnancy. She says multiple people saw evidence of the physical abuse over the years, but never reported it. Belafonte denies the allegations.