Mel B showed up in court in Los Angeles today for the latest round in her controversial fight with her ex nanny, Lorraine Gilles.
Former Spice Girl Mel, 42, arrived at Van Nuys court with TV shrink Dr Charles Sophy by her side.
Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr Sophy was Mel and ex husband Stephen Belafonte’s marriage therapist before they split.
He’s also Medical Director for the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services and has been chaperoning Mel’s daughter Madison during supervised visits with her father Belafonte.
Mel was seen wearing glasses with her short dyed hair swept back and she was dressed in a figure-hugging blue and white dress, a white buttoned formal jacket and white kitten heels.
Gilles arrived at the court accompanied by husband Michael Bleau wearing natural colored trousers and a white sleeve-less blouse.
Mel B, 42, showed up at Van Nuys court on Friday alongside Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr Charles Sophy, who had served as her and Stephen Belafonte’s marriage therapist
Courtroom showdown: Mel was seen wearing glasses and was dressed in a figure-hugging white dress, a white buttoned formal jacket and white kitten heels. Lorraine Gilles looked down while wearing natural colored trousers and a white sleeve-less blouse
Gilles, who has been at the center of the Mel and Belafonte’s divorce battle, was accompanied to the court hearing by husband Michael Bleau
Mel and ex Belafonte are embroiled in a bitter divorce amid allegations that the pair had threesomes with the nanny.
The former couple are also battling for custody over their daughter, Madison, six, and Belafonte has requested visitation rights to see his step-daughter Angel, 10 – a product of a brief relationship Mel had with movie star Eddie Murphy.
Movie producer Belafonte is scheduled to be a witness today in Mel B’s legal quest for a restraining order against 25-year-old German nanny Gilles whom she claims has been harassing her and ‘conspiring’ with Belafonte by threatening to release explosive and embarrassing sex videos of her.
Mel is also due to be called as a witness by her lawyer Larry Bakman, who showed up armed with eight boxes of legal papers on two hand carts.
Earlier DailyMail.com revealed exclusively that a bombshell video filmed by America’s Got Talent judge Mel showing her ex Stephen Belafonte having sex with another woman has been submitted as evidence in the couple’s divorce battle.
The sordid recording will be entered into court in among more than 2,100 exhibits Belafonte’s legal team plan to present at the domestic abuse trial later this month.
The video is described in the paperwork as: ‘Video clip, date currently unknown (Petitioner filming sex between Respondent and female).’
The Petitioner in the case is Mel B, while the Respondent is Belafonte.
Both Mel B and Belafonte have admitted to having threesomes with their German nanny Lorraine Gilles (center) among others
Mel B is alleged to have shot a video of husband Stephen Belafonte having sex with another woman, although the identity of the mystery woman involved has not been revealed
The identity of the mystery woman involved in the sex tape isn’t known, but both Mel B and Belafonte have admitted to having threesomes with Gilles among others.
DailyMail.com understands that the sex video, in which Mel is allegedly the cameraman, is intended to dispel the star’s allegations that Belafonte forced her to have threesomes with other women.
Mel has claimed in court papers that her ex forced her to ‘participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women.’
The singer suggested that during their marriage, she was coerced into trysts that he secretly recorded and later used as ammunition against her, threatening to release as sex tapes ‘if she tried to resist the threesomes’.
Mel says she begged him to delete the tapes.
In the newly filed court documents an amended witness list has also been included.
And Belafonte plans to bring in a rapper called Siya Sherman to testify about Mel’s alleged drug use.
She’s one of 18 witnesses Belafonte’s lawyers plan to call and next to her name it states: ‘Ms. Sherman will testify to her personal observations of the interaction and dynamics between Petitioner and Respondent during the time period of 2012 – 2013, as well as Petitioner’s use of illicit narcotics during the same period.’
An amended witness list includes Australian stripper Siara Diana, 32, who has previously revealed she bedded the pair after catching their eye at a strip club in Kings Cross, Sydney – Siara said Belafonte was a ’gentle giant’ while Mel was the boss in the relationship
It’s believed recording artist Sherman, 30, is a long-time friend of the couple.
Earlier this week DailyMail.com revealed text messages filed in court that showed former Spice Girl Mel, 42, was addicted to cocaine and alcohol.
Also on the witness list is the couple’s nanny Lorraine Gilles – currently embroiled in a defamation suit with Mel – and the singer’s ex-husband, and father of her eldest daughter Phoenix Chi, 18, Jimmy Gulzar.
A stripper who publicly revealed she had a threesome with Mel and Belafonte in Australia is also listed.
According to the paperwork exotic dancer Siara Diande will testify as to the ‘circumstances surrounding the sexual interaction between Petitioner, Respondent and herself, in or about early November 2010’.
Diande, 32, has previously revealed she bedded the pair after catching their eye at a strip club in Kings Cross, Sydney.
Belafonte plans to bring in a rapper called Siya Sherman, 30, to testify about Mel’s alleged drug use
During the threesome she said Belafonte was a ’gentle giant’ while Mel was the boss in the relationship.
She told an Australian news site that Belafonte was ‘really nice and respectful’ and that Mel B ‘didn’t seem to mind’.
‘I got the impression that it is Mel that wears the pants and is the boss in the relationship,’ she said.
Other witnesses listed in the papers include former assistants of the couple, security guards, accountants, an entertainment agent and even a waiter at a high end restaurant in London.
A 16-day trial has been scheduled for September 25 to hammer out Mel’s request for a permanent restraining order against her ex.
A source close to the couple told DailyMail.com: ‘Stephen is ready for the fight of his life to clear his name of the horrific allegations that Melanie has made against him.
‘He never wanted it to go this far, he was happy for an amicable split to get on with their lives and continue co-parenting. Now he’s having to fight for his reputation and the right to see his daughter Madison and step-daughter Angel.’