Mel B – Defends her new husband – He is not a WIFE Beater!

Spice Girl Mel B has spoken out for the first time to deny reports new husband Stephen Belafonte is a wife-beater.? Despite revelations Mr Belafonte, 32, was charged with battery after he attacked his common-law wife Nicole Contreras during a drunken episode at their home in 2003, Mel defended her new husband’s reputation.? 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.”??Stephen was spared jail but had to take part in a ‘Domestic Violence Batterers’ Programme’.? She added: “The only thing I don’t like is that my friends and family read this and go into shock-horror mode, thinking, ‘Oh, she’s married a psychopath!’.”?? Source