{"id":774299,"date":"2026-09-18T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774299\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:38:11","slug":"mel-bs-ex-husbands-defamation-suit-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774299\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel B’s Ex-Husband’s Defamation Suit Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mel B<\/a> scored a legal victory earlier this month … because her ex-husband’s defamation case against her has been dismissed — for now, at least.<\/p>\n

According to court documents obtained by TMZ, a Florida judge dismissed the case last week … finding Mel doesn’t have enough ties to the Sunshine State to justify litigating the case there.<\/p>\n

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Basically, the judge ruled that just because people in Florida might’ve read the claims in Mel’s book — which Stephen Belafonte<\/a> claimed caused him to lose business deals and otherwise harmed his reputation in the state — it wasn’t sufficient for Florida to handle the proceedings.<\/p>\n

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Worth noting … the case was dismissed without prejudice — so Belafonte could look to refile the lawsuit in a different court. So even though Mel B won the battle, the war could still rage on.<\/p>\n

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ICYMI … Belafonte filed a lawsuit against Mel B back in 2024, a few years after she released her memoir “Brutally Honest<\/a>” — in which she accused him<\/a> of repeatedly abusing her. She’s repeated these claims multiple times since.<\/p>\n

Belafonte has denied allegations that he abused Mel … calling one alleged 2012 incident — in which she claims he struck her with a closed fist for flirting with Usher — a “complete fabrication.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mel B scored a legal victory earlier this month … because her ex-husband’s defamation case against her has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}