Former nanny: I was seduced by Spice Girl
SPICE GIRL Mel B instigated a sevenyear sexual relationship with her children’s nanny when the woman was a ‘naive and a curious 18-year-old’, according to a new lawsuit.
Lorraine Gilles, now 26, claims that she had sex with Melanie Brown and threesomes with the star and her husband, Stephen Belafonte, in the latest twist to the couple’s bitter divorce battle. The nanny claims Mel B was her primary lover and her only encounters with Belafonte were when the singer invited him into bed for threesomes.
Ms Gilles, a foreign exchange student when she met the couple in an LA restaurant in 2009, alleges Mel B would record the sexual encounters. Mel B and Belafonte’s divorce battle began last month when the singer claimed her husband had assaulted her at least three times during their marriage.
The lawsuit by Ms Gilles is a response to earlier claims made by Mel B in court documents. The singer originally alleged that Belafonte hired Ms Gilles as their nanny in 2010, and was ‘paying her inordinate amounts of money’ after their relationship became sexual. Brown, 41, claimed that in 2014 Belafonte got their nanny pregnant before using Mel B’s money to pay for an abortion. Mel B won a restraining order against Ms Gilles earlier this month, claiming the nanny had copies of their sex tapes.
In her response to these claims, Ms Gilles says she was wrongly branded a ‘homewrecker, prostitute and extortionist’. She also provides what she claims is a true account of her relationship with Mel B and Belafonte. She claims the Spice Girl ‘seduced a naive and a curious 18-year-old foreign exchange student . . . with alcohol, fame, and casual sex’.
Ms Gilles, who was fired in 2016, admits having ‘group sex’ with the couple within days of their meeting. But she insists she and Mel B soon ‘developed a friendship and sexual relationship’, according to the court papers.
Ms Gilles arrived in the US from Germany in 2007.
She is suing for libel, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and is seeking unspecified damages.
Lawyers for Mel B and Belafonte did not respond to requests for comment.