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Eddie and new girlfriend, Tracy Edmonds
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy has apparently underestimated the girl power still wielded by Melanie Brown, who is loudly declaring that her ex is indeed the father of her unborn baby, despite his public questioning of paternity.
"I am obviously upset and distressed at some of the comments made by Eddie Murphy to the media," the bygone Scary Spice said in a statement on Thursday (via People). "I have no idea why anybody would want to conduct themselves in this kind of manner about such a personal matter in such a public way ... I was astonished at what Eddie said -- there is absolutely no question that Eddie is the father."
According to published reports, Brown, 31, only discovered that Murphy, 45, had kicked her to the curb on Monday, when friends called to comfort her after he announced during an interview with a Dutch TV show that they were kaput.
"You're being presumptuous because we're not together anymore," he replied when the reporter asked about the pregnancy chatter. "And I don't know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, sir."
The London Sun quotes a stunned Brown as telling a friend, "I'm shell-shocked by the whole thing. As far as I was concerned we hadn't really broken up -- we'd just had a bit of a row."
On Monday night, Murphy arrived at the New York premiere of "Dreamgirls" arm-in-arm with his new squeeze, film producer -- and former Mrs. Babyface -- Tracey Edmonds, who helpfully informed People that they had been seeing each other "for about a month and a half" and are "very happy."
"This was extraordinarily brazen, what he did," a Brown pal rails to the mag. "If he had fallen in love with somebody else, that would have been pretty bad anyway, but to then wheel her out in public for a deliberate photo op, when Melanie's pregnant! That's a rat, frankly."
Continues the confidante, "Melanie insists there is absolutely no question whose baby this is. And she resents the inference that she wouldn't know whose baby it was. It's fairly simple. She hasn't slept with anyone else."
The friend adds that Brown, who has a 7-year-old daughter, Phoenix, will undergo a paternity test.
"Melanie's gone through shock, pain, anger, the whole range of emotions," explains the source. "A lot of women or men in this situation would go to ground but she wants to take it head on."
Just three months ago, Murphy was proudly professing his schmoopy feelings for Brown, telling paparazzi, "Me and Mel B are madly in love."
So what went wrong?
The London Daily Mirror posits that the oddball pair was partially done in by Brown's shaky relationship with Murphy's family, especially his live-in mom, who, a mole snitches, "didn't approve" of her.
The romance sparked in June, two months after Murphy finalized his divorce from his wife of 12 years, Nicole Mitchell, with whom he has five children (he also has a son from a previous relationship).
Engagement rumors started soon after, which Eddie was quick to dismiss. Still, a source tells the Mirror, "Mel's beyond gutted. She was set to marry this guy and now he's knocked the wind out of her."
"I am obviously upset and distressed at some of the comments made by Eddie Murphy to the media," the bygone Scary Spice said in a statement on Thursday (via People). "I have no idea why anybody would want to conduct themselves in this kind of manner about such a personal matter in such a public way ... I was astonished at what Eddie said -- there is absolutely no question that Eddie is the father."
According to published reports, Brown, 31, only discovered that Murphy, 45, had kicked her to the curb on Monday, when friends called to comfort her after he announced during an interview with a Dutch TV show that they were kaput.
"You're being presumptuous because we're not together anymore," he replied when the reporter asked about the pregnancy chatter. "And I don't know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, sir."
The London Sun quotes a stunned Brown as telling a friend, "I'm shell-shocked by the whole thing. As far as I was concerned we hadn't really broken up -- we'd just had a bit of a row."
On Monday night, Murphy arrived at the New York premiere of "Dreamgirls" arm-in-arm with his new squeeze, film producer -- and former Mrs. Babyface -- Tracey Edmonds, who helpfully informed People that they had been seeing each other "for about a month and a half" and are "very happy."
"This was extraordinarily brazen, what he did," a Brown pal rails to the mag. "If he had fallen in love with somebody else, that would have been pretty bad anyway, but to then wheel her out in public for a deliberate photo op, when Melanie's pregnant! That's a rat, frankly."
Continues the confidante, "Melanie insists there is absolutely no question whose baby this is. And she resents the inference that she wouldn't know whose baby it was. It's fairly simple. She hasn't slept with anyone else."
The friend adds that Brown, who has a 7-year-old daughter, Phoenix, will undergo a paternity test.
"Melanie's gone through shock, pain, anger, the whole range of emotions," explains the source. "A lot of women or men in this situation would go to ground but she wants to take it head on."
Just three months ago, Murphy was proudly professing his schmoopy feelings for Brown, telling paparazzi, "Me and Mel B are madly in love."
So what went wrong?
The London Daily Mirror posits that the oddball pair was partially done in by Brown's shaky relationship with Murphy's family, especially his live-in mom, who, a mole snitches, "didn't approve" of her.
The romance sparked in June, two months after Murphy finalized his divorce from his wife of 12 years, Nicole Mitchell, with whom he has five children (he also has a son from a previous relationship).
Engagement rumors started soon after, which Eddie was quick to dismiss. Still, a source tells the Mirror, "Mel's beyond gutted. She was set to marry this guy and now he's knocked the wind out of her."
For those of you who have not been following the story...this is it. Eddie was dating Mel B, she got pregnant and he's denying paternity and is dating someone else while the girl is pregnant. That is the lowest thing any man can do.
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