Don’t feel sorry for Mel B.. she can look after herself
First husband Jimmy on divorce
THE first husband of Mel B says people should not feel sorry for her over her bitter divorce battle.
Jimmy Gulzar, whose marriage to the former Spice Girl lasted two years, said Mel, 42, had always been able to look after herself.
He said: “Does she really think all these men are wrong and she isn’t? We are talking about a woman who had three chil- dren with three different men.” Jimmy, 49, fathered Mel’s daughter Phoenix, now 18, after they met when he was a dancer for the Spice Girls. He said: “The birth of our daughter was like a fairy tale, my biggest high.” But the couple hit problems and she dumped him on the phone before a holiday, saying, “You’d better call a lawyer”.
Jimmy was awarded €600,000 but claims the divorce nearly broke him. He said: “I was said to be the bad guy – ‘Gold Card Jimmy’ who couldn’t keep her satisfied. It was horrible, the power of celebrity. What good is cash when you’re emotionally dying?” Mel went on to have daughter Angel Iris, now ten, with actor Eddie Murphy and in 2007 married producer Stephen Belafonte, 43. The couple are fighting over access to daughter Madison, five. He denies her allegations of mental and physical abuse, including coercing her into threesomes with other women. Mel is being sued for libel by her German ex-nanny Lorraine Gilles, 26, who she accused of being a “home wrecker”. Mel’s spokesman did not respond to a request to comment. halina.watts@mirror.co.uk