Mel B accuses Stephen Belafonte of multiple abuses
LOS ANGELES: Singer Mel B has accused her estranged husband Stephen Belafonte of multiple abuses and impregnating the nanny.
In late March, the ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge filed for divorce from her husband of nearly ten years citing irreconcilable differences and requesting joint custody of their six-year-old daughter, Madison, reported E! Online.
Amid a new restraining order request against Belafonte, the star has accused the 41-year-old producer of a variety of abuse and threats over HYDERABAD: Academy Awardwinning composer AR Rahman never realised that he was born for music and it was his mother who predicted that he would be a music composer. The music director said his mother made a choice and motivated him to make a career in music.
“I never knew that I was born for music. My mom made the choice and she kind of predicted that I will be a music composer. The day I realized that music would be my passion and future was when I went to my studio that had no equipment.”
“It was just a shell; just a sound proof room with an AC that smelled new. I felt one day I will have all types of equipment all over this place that I can’t afford now.” Rahman, who participated in a panel discussion here on “Creativity in Innovation,” alongside fellow Oscar winner Resul Pookutty, said his only aim was to practice and learn music.
“Around 1986, I stopped playing for other composers. I felt practicing the course of their marriage, including physical assault and battery, verbal threats and surveilling.
Mel B described in her declaration, “when something good would happen for me, he would beat me down to let me know he was in charge.”
She alleged in the declaration he often demeaned her with negative comments about her intelligence or appearance, specifically after giving birth.
Mel B claimed that Belafonte impregnated their nanny and initially wanted to father the child while the three of or learning about music was my investment. I didn’t care about opportunities. “If you are good enough, people will come to you. You have to raise your standards and prove that you are passionate. Then you don’t have to go behind people. I felt it’s a jinx to go behind people.”
“Sound mixing as a craft was not known until I won an Oscar for ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ It took 81 years for an Asian to win an Oscar in sound. For me, it took fourteen years,” he added. them lived together. The songstress detailed one suicide attempt in 2014 when she took an entire bottle of Aspirin while overcome with “physical and emotional” exhaustion while in the United Kingdom, but regretted her actions and tried to call 999 for help.
According to Mel B’s declaration, though she tried to leave Belafonte several times starting from their first year of marriage, he “threatened me with violence and threatened to destroy my life in every possible way... destroy my career and take my kids from me.”