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Mel B has obtained a restraining order application against estranged husband Stephen Belafonte, alleging he beat her, got their nanny pregnant and exhorted her to take part in threesomes throughout their ten year marriage.

The 41-year-old former Spice Girl made a string of explosive and disturbing claims in her court declaration which forces Stephen to stay away from she and her three children.

The catalogue of historic allegations of abuse listed by TMZ include Belafonte 'punching' and 'choking' her, 'splitting her lip' and 'pushing her down on a carpet'. 

Bruised: Mel has catalogued a history of violence against estranged husband Stephen Belafonte in a court filing as she obtained a retraining order against him on Monday 

Mel, who filed for divorce from the producer last month, alleges the abuse began the first year of their marriage back in 2007.

According to the U.S. website, she claims: 'Stephen placed both of his hands around her neck, began choking her and slammed her down onto the hardwood floors' while she was preparing for U.S. talent show Dancing With The Stars.

In the documents, Mel alleges that the abuse became part of a 'pattern'. When she became successful, Stephen 'would beat me down to let me know he was in charge.' 

She also alleges Belafonte 'punched her and split her lip' after becoming jealous while she filmed a segment with Usher for the X Factor back in 2012. 

After asking how she could appear on television with the obvious injury, Belafonte allegedly told her 'she should have thought of that before deciding to flirt with and f*** Usher.' 

Damaged: Mel has previously posted pictured of her bruised face

Troubled: Mel B, pictured with Stephen Belafone last July,  made a number of disturbing and explosive allegations on Monday as she filed for a restraining order against her husband

Furthermore, Belafonte 'punched' Mel and 'pushed her down on a carpet' the day before she and the Spice Girls performed at the Olympic closing ceremony. 

Mel claims her injuries were so severe her skin was burned from the carpet, adding that she was then forced by her estranged husband to 'tweet that she injured herself by running in heels.'

So 'overcome with emotional and physical exhaustion,' an embattled Mel reveals she overdosed on a bottle of Aspirin back in 2014.

Disturbingly, Belafonte allegedly stopped her from calling the emergency services, with Mel stating he locked her in the bedroom and told her to 'die b****.'

Bruised: Mel's appearance on the X Factor back in 2014, sparked concern among fans with Belafonte taking to Twitter to deny he was a 'wife beater' 

Severe: Mel has now catalogued her injuries as a result of her estranged husband's violence 

Tweet denial: Stephen was forced to slam accusations he was a 'wife beater' back in December 2014

Along with allegations of continued violence, Mel says Stephen got their nanny pregnant and even suggested 'all three of us live together' with the new baby. 

Although the nanny eventually had an abortion 'she was paid $300,000' according to the filing.

And amid recent claims by Belafonte's brother Jeremiah that the couple had an 'open and loose relationship,' Mel states that Stephen made her 'participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women.'

Worse still, having secretly recorded the trysts, Mel says he threatened to release the sex tapes 'if she tried to resist the threesomes.'

Mel says she had previously tried to leave him but 'he threatened me with violence and threatened to destroy my life in every possible way... destroy my career and take my kids from me.'

Meanwhile, days after Stephen's home was searched for firearms, Mel's court filing suggests he does keep a gun at home despite being prohibited from carrying a firearm due to a prior domestic violence conviction.

Professional face: Mel pictured at the America's Got Talent season launch event after filing for divorce 

Stephen denied his estranged wife's claims, telling TMZ on camera: 'I haven't heard these allegations. You know what my comment on this is,  as this is the mother of my children? I'm really really distraught my brain how this is going to affect our children. and the depths that she's gone to. That's it. I'm shocked at those allegations and that's what it is.

'I think someone's set me up to look like a bad guy. Obviously you saw my house got raided and nobody found anything. It's accusation after accusation. But we'll have our day in court.

'And we have children. if anyone knows our children, we have beautiful children. They're on social media. Why do this?

'We were friends two weeks ago. And now all of a sudden the team gets around and now it's got to be this.' 

TMZ report that the judge also ordered Belafonte to leave the family's Hollywood Hills mansion and he reportedly packed some of his things up on Monday afternoon. 

Along with being a mother to five-year-old Madison with Belafonte, Mel also has daughter Phoenix Chi, 18, by her first husband Jimmy Gulzar and nine-year-old daughter Angel with movie star Eddie Murphy.

Happier times: Mel has regularly posted loved-up pictures of herself and Stephen on Instagram

On Sunday, it was claimed the couple had enjoyed a threesome with Lady Victoria Hervey. 

A friend of the 40-year-old former 'It girl' alleged that she enjoyed a steamy tryst with the couple, both 41.

The friend of Lady Victoria told The Sun: 'It was all a blur and everyone was very drunk, especially Lady Victoria.

'She told me one minute they were laying in bed watching a movie together, then they got carried away and Stephen was on top of her and Mel was kissing her.

'Next thing she can remember they all woke up naked in bed in the morning.' 

Funny man: A photo posted by Belafonte that jokes he and newly-estranged wife Mel B had embarked on a threesome recently emerged online

Then there was a saucy snap posted by Belafonte last year which showed a man fondling one woman's thigh, while his head rested on another's stomach, beside her hand clad with fake nails and a dazzling ring

Belafonte tagged Mel in the photo, which belonged to Kim Kardashian, teasing fans that he and the Spice Girl were involved.

The reappearance of the photo came in light of claims from his brother Jeremiah that the couple had an 'open and loose' relationship.

Mel always been candid about her sex life, previously revealing she was involved in a relationship with a woman as a 17-year-old.

She told Attitude back in 2014: 'At 17 you want to experiment. I don't think you should put a name on it. Well actually, I don't care if people put a name on it. I didn't. I had fun!

'I had a great five-year relationship with a lovely lady who I still talk to this day, and that's that. I mean, if it happened yesterday I would probably be saying something different. But I've been happily married to my husband for seven years.

'Do I want to spoon with a woman, and snuggle? No. I want to do that with my husband. At 17 I wanted to spoon and snuggle and do everything with a woman... But not right now.'

Threesome claims: Sources close to Lady Victoria Hervey have claimed she enjoyed a threesome with the couple 

Revealing to Grazia magazine that she and Stephen have sex 'five times a day,' Mel said in 2010:'I have to admit, I'm a nymphomaniac with him. It's sexercise.' She also said the couple are 'perverts with each other'. 

'Well, everybody sees the word pervert as something different, and I don’t want to tell you what my pervert-ness is, or what his is,' she told The Guardian in an interview three years ago, adding that Belafonte was her 'rock.'

'He’s been my rock when nobody else believed in me,' she said. 'The one who’s said, "Go for it, Melanie: go and do Dancing With The Stars, go and do America’s Got Talent, go and release a single if you like." He’s the one who has rebirthed my confidence.' 

She elaborated on her sexuality to shock jock Howard Stern saying: '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.' 

The star was also the subject of a few kiss and tells - back in 2014, former Playboy model Luann Lee claimed Mel followed her into a disabled lavatory, started taking her clothes off and spent an hour in there kissing her.

Speaking to The Sun, the centrefold also said that Belafonte was waiting outside the whole time.

Luann, who met Mel in hotel bar when she was starring in the The Peep Show at the Planet Hollywood Hotel, said: ‘It was very passionate and sensual. She’s like a man in that way — very assertive, very determined and very wanting. I can see why they call her Scary Spice.’ 

Kiss and tell: Luann Lee claimed she and Mel shared a romantic tryst in a toilet 

Mel's court filing comes amid a string of rumours which have dogged the couple's ten year marriage.

The couple seemed blissfully happy when they renewed their wedding vows with a lavish ceremony in front of their families in November, 2008 in Hurghada, Egypt.

But in 2014, cracks began to emerge when the couple was hit with rumours of violent rows with Belafonte accused of physically abusing Mel after she appeared on The X Factor UK with bruises and scratches on her face and arms.

It was reported at the time that Mel had left Belafonte before she was rushed to hospital with stomach pains, which caused her to miss the first live show, during The X Factor final weekend in 2014.

The X Factor judge returned for the last show on December 14, 2014 with a bruised and scratched appearance, sparking worry among fans.

But Belafonte vehemently denied all suggestions of domestic abuse and the couple appeared to patch things up.

Happier times: Belafonte says his thoughts are with the three children Phoenix-Chi, Angel and Madison 

Throughout their marriage Mel has defended her husband's past.

She jumped to his defence when it emerged that he had battered his common-law wife Nicole during a drunken row at their home in 2003. 

The film producer attacked the mother of his daughter Giselle, now 13, in what was described as a 'malicious and unlawful' drunken frenzy.

He did not contest the charge, which the judge said was the same as a guilty plea, and said: 'This happened crazily, one drunk, retarded night.'

He was also accused of vandalising Nicole's phone by spitting into it but this was dropped.

She told Hello! magazine: 'They're trying to make him out to be this aggressive, violent, woman batterer and he's not.

'If you read those police reports, they never say he physically beat up a woman.'

Later Belafonte said he did not realise that he had admitted battering his ex-partner, saying that the admission came at a moment when he was 'confused and stressed'. But this plea was rejected.

In 2014 Belafonte's brother Jeremiah Stansbury blasted the producer as 'violent' and 'ruthless' and urged Mel to leave him.

And he claimed the couple have no prenuptial agreement and are obsessed with porn and sex, alleging that Belafonte showed off their huge range of sex toys.

Belafonte denied his brother's claims to The Sun newspaper. 

Beautiful children: Stephen expressed concern over the effect on their kids