Eddie Murphy isn't happy with former partner Melanie Brown, accusing the recently re-spiced girl of trying to extort money from him as a result of their brief fling last year, a fling which, of course, resulted in the couple's recently born child, Angel Iris.
Murphy's lawyer Marty Singer released the following statement: "You [Scary Spice] have been engaging in a pattern of disseminating disparaging, negative and defamatory statements about Mr Murphy, portraying him in a false and outrageous light in order to pressure Mr Murphy to capitulate to your highly unreasonable extortionate demands. We demand that you immediately cease and desist from this wrongful conduct".
The dispute's origins lie in Brown's reported demands that Murphy buy her a $9 million house in Malibu and pay for her to live there for the next 18 years, claiming it as child support that Murphy purportedly refuses to pay. However, Murphy strongly denies that he is not contributing to the costs of their child. Despite that fact, his legal people have again confirmed that Murphy still isn't too enamored with the idea of the child, saying: "Mr Murphy and Ms Brown were romantically involved for a period of only a few months, during which they neither lived together nor made any plans to have a family together. Ms Brown's pregnancy was not planned by Mr Murphy and came as a surprise to him".
Of course it's impossible to know what's been going on behind the scenes on this one, though from the outside looking in it does seem like Murphy's been a bit of a cunt about this whole thing, and deserves any disparaging or negative statements Brown chooses to throw in his direction. Though the courts are at liberty to conclude otherwise, of course.