Melanie Brown, known by her stage name Mel B, has multiple sources of income that support her lavish lifestyle.
She started her career in 1994 when she formed The Spice Girls with Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Beckham.
The pop band became very popular in just a few years and their first huge hit “Wannabe†was #1 hit in 37 countries back in 1996.
During the first five years of the band, The Spice Girls earned more than half a billion dollars!
Melanie B also released a few songs as a solo artist. Her song “I Want You Back†that she recorded with Missy Elliot was also a big success back in 1998.
Apart from her singing career, Mel B also starred in more than ten movies and she participated in many TV shows.
In 2018 she signed a deal to be a judge in America's Got Talent for $250,000 per month, but she will leave the show in 2019 after six successful seasons.
However, she will remain a regular panelist in the British TV show Loose Women.
Melanie also published two books which bring her some additional revenue.
Her wealth is currently estimated at $68 million.
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Year | Net worth |
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2022 | $68 million |
2021 | $65 million |
2020 | $60 million |
2019 | $57 million |
Mel B has a very intriguing love life!
Her first famous boyfriend was Fjölnir Thorgeirsson who is a businessman from Iceland. He was dating Scary Spice from 1996 to 1997.
Mel B got her first child in 1999 with Jimmy Gulzar who is a successful dancer. The couple was married from 1998 to 2000.
After the divorce, Mel B dated a three years older woman whose name is Christa Parker. According to Christa, the relationship lasted from 2002 until 2006.
But it was not Mel B's first homosexual relationship, as she previously had a girlfriend whose name is Christine Crokos. Christine is a movie producer.
Later, Mel B was in a relationship with Eddie Murphy, from 2006 to 2007 and she got her second daughter with the famous actor in 2007.
Just a few months after giving birth to her second child, Mel B entered a new marriage with Stephen Belafonte who is a film producer. She got her third daughter with Stephen in 2011, but the marrieage lasted only until the 2017 when the couple divorced.
The divorce from Jimmy Gulzar cost Mel B $2.7 million!
The settlement with Stephen Belafonte was "only" $350,000 and $5,000 per month in child support for their daughter. You can read more about the financial settlement of Mel B’s divorce on her accountant's blog.
Mel B claims that she is very happy now in her relationship with Gary Madatyan who is a professional hairdresser who worked with many celebrities. The couple is together since 2017. You can see Mel and Gary on the photo above.
Parents: Although there were some rumors that Mel B is Armenian, she is not. Her father, Martin Brown, is from Nevis, an Island in the Caribbean Sea, and her mother Andrea is English.
Siblings: Mel B has a sister whose name is Danielle Brown.
Famous cousin: Mel B also has a famous cousin. He is Christian Cooke and he is an actor who was born in 1987.
Kids: Mel B has three kids with three different partners.
Her daughters' names are:
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Mel B is selling her $8 million mansion on Cordell Drive in Los Angeles in which she lived with her kids and ex-husband Stephen Belafonte.
Cars collection: Mel B owns a lot of different cars. Her cars collection includes Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Range Rover and an armored Cadillac Escalade ESV. She even owns a private airplane.
Mel B doesn't sell T-shirts and similar stuff, but she wrote two books so far:
Then and now: On the photo above you can see how Mel B looked when she was a kid.
Mel B has a few tattoos on her body, but the most interesting one is the tattoo on her ribs which was devoted to her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte:
Stephen, till death do us part you own my heart
In December 2017, Mel B had a surgery in order to cut off a part of her flesh on which her ex-husband's name was inked.
I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.
It wasn't experimentation. I fell in love with a woman for five years. An experiment doesn't last five years.
People call me lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual, but I know who's in my bed and that's it. I have a huge libido and a great sex life.
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
Yes, I do have a big ego... and I am in love with myself... Because if you don't love yourself how can anybody love you back?
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.
Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.
We always knew Victoria was going into fashion, Mel C was going into music, Emma went into radio, and I wanted to do a bit of everything.
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