Mel B splashes cash to silence ex nanny
Skint Spice’s last-ditch bid to stop trial
DESPERATE Mel B has spent thousands of pounds on legal fees in a bid to gag her former nanny.
The former Spice Girl’s legal team have filed five motions urging a judge to dismiss the libel case taken out by Lorraine Gilles.
Mel, 42, alleged Lorraine was one of the main causes of the breakdown of her marriage to movie producer Stephen Belafonte.
She claimed the 25- year- old German blonde had an affair with her husband and an abortion after he got her pregnant.
Lorraine denies the claims and took legal action. Now Yorkshire-born Mel’s team are urging Judge Dalila Lyons to rule the case null and void at Los Angeles Superior Court.
The action is expected to have cost the America’s Got Talent judge tens of thousands of pounds in fees.
Aggressive
But the move could save her millions if the judge rules in favour of the former Scary Spice.
The aggressive fightback from Mel comes as she struggles with mounting debts and tax demands. It has been revealed she has blown her £38million Spice Girls fortune. An LA legal source said: “Mel has spent thousands of pounds on lawyers to try and shut down the nanny.
“The paperwork of over 400 pages is costing her big, but demonstrates how she is determined to not let this case go ahead.
“She knows a full-blown trial could cost her vast amounts in legal fees alone. If she loses it would be unthinkable for her financial status.”
Mel has told the judge her accusations about Lorraine were no smear campaign as she did not act in “reckless disregard”.