The singer, who took legal action against Eddie to establish he was the father of their four-month-old daughter Angel Iris, is planning a bigger wedding later in the year.

Her spokeswoman released a statement saying: "Melanie Brown confirmed today that she and long-term friend Stephen Belafonte were married at the Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on Wednesday June 6 2007.

"The couple, who are both 32, had wanted to keep the ceremony out of the public eye as they planned a more formal wedding for friends and family later in the year.

"Melanie and Stephen felt that they ’were at a good point in their lives and wanted to make a private commitment to each other’. They have been good friends for many years."

Eddie ’fathered Spice Girl baby’ - Aug 2 2007
An attorney for Spice Girl Mel B has said that a DNA test has shown that Eddie Murphy is the father of her four-month-old baby.

Murphy has shown "shocking and appalling" conduct since the test, Melanie’s Brown’s attorney Gloria Allred said in a statement.

The test "established paternity but paternity has not been legally acknowledged," she said.

Brown, who was known as Scary Spice, dated Murphy last year .

The 32-year-old singer gave birth to Angel Iris Murphy Brown on April 3. She listed Murphy as the father on the birth certificate.

Murphy took the DNA test in June, Allred said.

Murphy, 46, has five children from his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy, who filed for divorce in 2005.

Brown also has an eight-year-old daughter.


Mel ’didn’t like Eddie’s lifestyle’ - July 25 2007
Mel B has revealed that she and Eddie Murphy were in conflict over his lifestyle before he publicly dumped her.

The star once again insisted that their three-month old baby, Angel Iris, was planned and that the couple had wanted to tie the knot.

She learned their relationship was over while she was pregnant last December, when the 46-year-old star told a Dutch TV show: "I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test."

But the 32-year-old has now said that the actor must have been "hurt" by something she said for him to have publicly humiliated her.

A DNA test has since confirmed that the baby is Eddie’s.

She told Essence.com: "This was a completely planned pregnancy. This wasn’t some random ’Oops I fell over and I’m pregnant’."

Asked why she thought her ex denied the baby was his, she said: "I’m a very independent woman so if you’re trying to control me, that’s not going to happen."

She said the pair planned to move together to Malibu but "somehow things got confused along the way because there were certain things that went on in his house with his lifestyle that I wasn’t prepared to be a part of".

Scary Spice said they had a "trippy discussion" and "both refused to budge", but she thought the pair would iron out their differences on her return from London.

The singer added that "what I said must have hurt" the Beverly Hills Cop star, "because the guy doesn’t speak about his relationships".


Scary to wed? - July 19 2007
Mel B apparently wants to marry her new boyfriend.

Scary Spice has been dating film producer Stephen Belafonte since her split with Hollywood star Eddie Murphy.

And now she has told the Sun: "He’s the love of my life and I’m going to marry him."