As previously reported, Melanie Brown has filed for divorce from Stephen Belafonte.
What prompted the singer and reality show judge to split from her husband of nearly a decade?
Some allegedly awful behavior, according to a bombshell new report…
Brown’s attorneys were granted a restraining order for their client on Monday, with TMZ having obtained the documents that explain why Mel fears for both her life and the lives of her kids.
In her declaration, Mel B tells a truly heinous story of abuse.
Among her most sordid and scary allegations against Belafonte:
He choked her in November of 2007.
It was the night of the Dancing with the Stars finale, Brown asserts, and she was getting ready at home when her then-husband placed both of his hands around her neck and slammed her down on the hardwood floors.
Any time she achieved a level of success, Brown alleges, Belafonte would “beat me down to let me know he was in charge.”
He punched her in the face in July of 2012.
In this detailed incident, Brown says she was a judge on The X Factor when she was leaving to tape a segment with Usher.
At this, Belafonte punched his wife a closed fist in the face, splitting open her lip.
When she asked how she was supposed to work with the injury, Belafonte supposedly screamed that she should have thought of that before deciding to “flirt with and f-cj Usher.”
He punched and shoved her in August of 2012.
The day after Brown performed at the closing ceremonies at the London Olympics, Belafonte reportedly punched her again with a closed fist and pushed her down on the carpet.
The artist’s face “actually scabbed over the rug burns,” Brown writes, adding that Belafonte then forced her to Tweet that she injured herself by running on 7″ Christian Louboutin heels.
He cheated on her with the nanny and got his mistress pregnant.
Brown says Stephen told her he wanted to have the baby and “all three of us live together.”
She explains that Belafonte eventually demanded the (unnamed) nanny get an abortion. She also claims Stephen paid the nanny in excess of $ 300,000 of Mel B’s money “for alleged nanny services.”
He threatened her life.
After Brown downed a bottle of Aspirin in 2014 to deal with “emotional and physical exhaustion,” she tried to call the authorities for help.
But she says Belafonte hurled her in the bedroom, locked the door and told her “to die, bitch.”
He blackmailed her with sex tapes.
Brown says Stephen is in possession sex tapes of her and often threatened to release them to ruin her career.
He made her participate in threesomes.
Brown added that her soon-to-be ex forced her to “participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women” and he would frequently secretly record the encounters.
She says when she attempted to resist these threesome, he’d threaten to release the sex tapes.
He made it impossible for her to leave him.
Brown says she tried over the years, but Stephen “threatened me with violence and threatened to destroy my life in every possible way … destroy my career and take my kids from me.”
He has a gun.
It’s either a .38 or .357 magnum and it’s against the law because Belafonte is prohibited from carrying firearms as part of a domestic violence conviction stemming from an incident with another woman years ago.
In addition to granted the restraining order in this case, the judge ordered Belafonte to leave the family residence in the Hollywood Hills.
He went to the home late Monday afternoon, TMZ reports, packed up most of his belongings, and told a photographer in the vicinity that these allegations are untrue.
