Mel B’s dramatic divorce has just taken another turn for the worse with accusations she intimidated a witness who planned to testify against her.
The former Spice Girl filed for divorce from husband Stephen Belafonte and was granted a temporary restraining order after accusations of extensive domestic violence.
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Rapper Siya was allegedly planning to testify against Mel B’s claims that Belafonte had physically abused her and well as support his allegations that it had been the pop star who initiated the married couple’s threesomes, TMZ reports.
Siya has now accused Mel B of sending her texts over the weekend threatening her to not to go ahead with her testimony. The rapper went to police with the allegations and authorities are now opening a felony investigation.
This is just the latest blow to X Factor judge who been engaged in a bitter divorce battle for months.
Earlier this year, documents emerged showing Mel B must pay her Stephen Belafonte $40k a month in spousal support, despite her accusations of domestic violence.
Judge Lawrence Riff also ordered the former Spice Girl to pay her ex-husband $140,000 in legal fees via a written judgement.
Brown obtained a temporary restraining order against Belfonte in April after detailing multiple instances of alleged physical assault and blackmail.
The judge said the compulsory spousal support payments would only be until an evidentiary hearing in September in which Brown hopes to prove her ex was abusive – claims Belafonte categorically denies.
In a statement released shortly after Brown’s accusations surfaced, Belafonte labelled the allegations as “outrageous and unfounded”.
According to TMZ, Mel B also claims he forced her to “participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women” while he secretly filmed the encounters. When she resisted the three-ways, Belafonte would allegedly threaten to release the sex tapes in an effort to ruin her career.
Despite trying to leave many times, Mel B alleges he “threatened me with violence and threatened to destroy my life in every possible way … destroy my career and take my kids from me.”
The divorce proceedings continue.
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