Spice Girl Mel B is ‘teetering on the brink of bankruptcy’ and cannot afford the $500,000 a Los Angeles judge ordered her to pay ex-husband Stephen Belafonte, according to court documents found by DailyMail.com.
If LA Superior Court doesn’t ‘modify’ the order, Mel, 45, told the court in a written declaration: ‘I will effectively be insolvent and will in all likelihood have to file for bankruptcy.
‘I simply do not have the ability to pay such an exorbitant sum.’
She pleaded with Judge Mark Juhas to lower the $400,000 in legal fees, plus $100,000 in accounting fees she was ordered September 18 to pay ‘forthwith’ to Belafonte, from whom she was divorced three years ago.
Mel – whose estimated earnings from last year’s reunion Spice Girls tour of the UK range from $2 million to $10 million – claims that she has been unable to work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her lack of income, plus her $2.5 million debt to the IRS, the $15,000 a month she pays Belafonte in spousal support, the $7,300 she pays in child support for their nine-year-old daughter Madison, plus her own legal fees, have left her virtually broke, she says… even though she estimates her expenses for the next year will be around $700,000.
via Daily Mail
