Mel B channels Scary Spice in leopard print jacket as she promotes autobiography... which ex Stephen Belafonte plans to sue against
Her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte is planning to sue her over the 'horrific lies' in her new book.
Yet Mel B showed she wasn't bothered by any legal woes as she stunned in a sexy black dress with stiletto heels at a signing for Brutally Honest at Waterstones in Bluewater, Kent on Wednesday.
The pop sensation, 43, channelled her Scary Spice days as she teamed the plunging dress with a leopard print bomber jacket.
![Relaxed: Mel B showed she wasn't bothered by any legal woes as she stunned in a sexy black dress with stiletto heels while she signed for her new book Brutally Honest at Waterstones in Bluewater, Kent on Wednesday](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6759982-6439443-image-a-2_1543432235568.jpg)
Relaxed: Mel B showed she wasn't bothered by any legal woes as she stunned in a sexy black dress with stiletto heels while she signed for her new book Brutally Honest at Waterstones in Bluewater, Kent on Wednesday
Teaming the sultry look with a heavy eye make-up, the Wannabe hitmaker opted for a smokey eye and looked every inch the star with Hollywood-style eyelash extensions.
It comes after she was supported by bandmate Melanie Chisholm at the launch of her book Mortimer House in London on Tuesday evening.
The feisty star oozed glamour in a slogan £777 sequinned dress bearing the slogan 'I Am Not Sorry I Am Not For Sale' as she cuddled up to Mel C.
![Sultry: Teaming the sultry look with a heavy eye make-up, the Wannabe hitmaker opted for a smokey eye and looked every inch the star with Hollywood-style eyelash extensions](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6759984-6439443-image-m-12_1543432801071.jpg)
Sultry: Teaming the sultry look with a heavy eye make-up, the Wannabe hitmaker opted for a smokey eye and looked every inch the star with Hollywood-style eyelash extensions
Sporty Spice, meanwhile, kept things casual in a leather jacket and skinny jeans teamed with edgy Fila trainers.
The main theme of Mel's explosive memoir is the star's roller coaster ten-year marriage with her ex, Stephen Belafonte.
Mel accuses the music producer of years of emotional and physical abuse, driving her to the brink.
But Belafonte calls out the book as all 'lies' and challenges his ex to produce a single bit of evidence to prove he was violent or abusive.
He doubles down on the challenge by vowing to give his ex wife his share of their $7million marital home - IF she can produce a shred of evidence.
He references the night of December 14, 2014, days before Mel appeared at the UK X Factor grand final with what appeared to be marks or bruises on her body.
![Looking good: Mel C, meanwhile, kept things casual in a leather jacket and skinny jeans teamed with edgy Fila trainers](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/27/21/6715470-6435357-image-a-184_1543353751048.jpg)
Looking good: Mel C, meanwhile, kept things casual in a leather jacket and skinny jeans teamed with edgy Fila trainers
He explained to MailOnline: 'She has said I put her in the hospital and I beat her so bad that she was in there for six or seven days. That's an open and shut case. You show the hospital records, the judge says wow and then I am the scumbag that she says I am because she has the proof.
'But what she did was very tricky. She made all these allegations and then she won't show the hospital records.'
Belafonte said Mel's legal team fended off several exhaustive requests from his lawyers to see the records, citing HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) laws.
![Icon: The pop sensation, 43, channelled her Scary Spice routes as she teamed the plunging dress with a leopard print bomber jacket](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6759988-6439443-image-a-14_1543434058165.jpg)
Icon: The pop sensation, 43, channelled her Scary Spice routes as she teamed the plunging dress with a leopard print bomber jacket
'The judge can't even compel her to do it,' he said. 'So what she does is makes the allegations and then pulls back.
'But I stand behind it 100 million percent. I would give my interest in the house to be sold 100 percent to Melanie - show the hospital records.'
He added firmly: 'She can't show them because Melanie went into the hospital that day (Dec 14, 2014) for a drug overdose.
![Candid: In Brutally Honest, Mel admits to being hospitalised after overdosing on 200 aspirins in a failed suicide bid on that 2014 date](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6759992-6439443-image-m-16_1543434080266.jpg)
Candid: In Brutally Honest, Mel admits to being hospitalised after overdosing on 200 aspirins in a failed suicide bid on that 2014 date
'Melanie has covered up her drug addiction time and time again and throwing me under the bus is kind of the way that she's done it.'
In Brutally Honest, Mel admits to being hospitalised after overdosing on 200 aspirins in a failed suicide bid on that 2014 date.
She also admitted to abusing alcohol and cocaine, drinking heavily and snorting six or seven lines of the white powder before her X Factor appearances.
![Best buds: The singer dazzled in a £777 sequinned dress bearing the slogan 'I Am Not Sorry I Am Not For Sale' as she cuddled up to her fellow Spice Girl, Mel C at the book's launch](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6715202-6439443-Best_buds_The_singer_43_dazzled_in_a_777_sequinned_dress_bearing-a-17_1543434108353.jpg)
Best buds: The singer dazzled in a £777 sequinned dress bearing the slogan 'I Am Not Sorry I Am Not For Sale' as she cuddled up to her fellow Spice Girl, Mel C at the book's launch
Belafonte adds that in the book, while Mel regularly alludes to violence, she does not include details of several beatings she alleged she received from her ex in court papers during their bitter divorce last year.
In court documents filed in a bid to win a temporary domestic violence restraining order against Belafonte, Mel branded her ex a 'monster' and told a horrific story of abuse.
She claimed he tried to choke her and threw her to the ground during one rage in November, 2007, the night of her 'Dancing with the Stars' finale, she alleged Belafonte 'punched her and split her lip' after becoming jealous while she filmed a segment with Usher for the X Factor back in 2012 and in August the same year, the day after performing at the closing ceremonies for the London Olympics, she alleged Belafonte punched her with a closed fist and pushed her down on the carpet.
Her skin was burned and her face 'actually scabbed over the rug burns,' she claimed.
Yet despite this apparent 'pattern' of violence not a single one of these allegations is included in the memoir.
Belafonte says the former couple do NOT have a non-disclosure agreement -meaning there's nothing to stop Mel from telling all.
![Loving life: Mel B put on a giddy display while promoting her explosive autobiography Brutally Honest - which her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte plans to SUE against for its 'horrific lies'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6715200-6439443-Loving_life_Mel_B_put_on_a_giddy_display_while_promoting_her_exp-a-18_1543434118443.jpg)
Loving life: Mel B put on a giddy display while promoting her explosive autobiography Brutally Honest - which her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte plans to SUE against for its 'horrific lies'
Regardless, he is already planning to sue the singer for defamation of character over many of the false claims he says she's made in the book. 'She claimed some horrific, horrific things.'
So, he says, his question to Melanie is, why didn't she include what was in her initial deposition now.
'I don't know why she's not telling the world of all the things that she filed (in her deposition). That is very confusing.'
In a second interview with Daily Mail TV, the 43-year-old business man said his former wife went to great lengths to protect her public image while partying, having promiscuous sex and doing drugs, while his reputation is in tatters from the myriad of 'horrific' allegations of domestic violence and abuse she made against him.
'I do not know who I was married to, at all. It is a person who had the capability of probably slitting my throat if it protected her as an addict,' he said.
'What she has said to protect her own image, to play the victim was nasty and horrific. I'm dumbfounded.'
![Bad break-up: Stephen Belafonte has responded to ex-wife Mel B's claims that he drugged her, forced her into threesomes and secretly filmed their trysts](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/16/6755124-6438501-image-m-34_1543423353225.jpg)
Bad break-up: Stephen Belafonte has responded to ex-wife Mel B's claims that he drugged her, forced her into threesomes and secretly filmed their trysts
Belafonte says it's 'disgusting' how Mel reveals all about her cocaine use and her insatiable appetite for sex in her new book Brutally Honest.
'She blames me for her cocaine use, she blames me for the sexual stuff, it's just disgusting,' he explains.
'I don't know why a person who cares about their daughters, who is girl power, would ever in a million years want this to be out there for your younger daughters to read.'
![Damaged image: The 43-year-old businessman says the former Spice Girl went to great lengths to protect her public image while partying, having promiscuous sex and doing drugs - while his reputation was destroyed](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6748660-6439443-The_43_year_old_businessman_says_the_former_Spice_Girl_went_to_g-a-19_1543434660274.jpg)
Damaged image: The 43-year-old businessman says the former Spice Girl went to great lengths to protect her public image while partying, having promiscuous sex and doing drugs - while his reputation was destroyed
In the book, Mel talks of having a threesome - which she admits was her idea - with her husband and another woman early in their marriage.
But she claims she woke the next day in 'shock' when she recalled how Belafonte had filmed the encounter.
'Remembering that it had been videoed I jolted awake, a video, a sex video,' she wrote.
She added: 'I felt as if I was falling in slow motion down a black hole like a little girl in a nursery rhyme.
![Scandal: Belafonte has called accusations that he and nanny Lorainne Gilles (center) threatened to release the sex tapes, 'crazy' and said he would never want to subject their daughters to scandal](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/28/19/6701846-6439443-Belafonte_has_called_accusations_that_he_and_nanny_Lorainne_Gill-a-20_1543434664315.jpg)
Scandal: Belafonte has called accusations that he and nanny Lorainne Gilles (center) threatened to release the sex tapes, 'crazy' and said he would never want to subject their daughters to scandal
'What if the video gets leaked,' I thought, "What have I done?"'
In court, Mel used the existence of 64 sex tapes to claim Belafonte had drugged her and secretly filmed their steamy sessions in a bid to hold them over her head.
But defiant Belafonte, who has broken his silence after two years, hits back: 'She said that I had sex tapes, she had the world thinking that I filmed pornography, you know, sex tapes of my wife without her knowing.
'My wife was filming me. I want to show the videos of her filming me. She's completely dressed and turns the video on herself and talks about, "hmm it's so sexy" and continues filming me with another person having sex.'
By November 2017, as part of a mediation settlement, Mel claims in her book that she agreed to drop domestic violence charges against Belafonte if none of the sex tapes were played in open court.
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