LOS ANGELES:-Mel B and Stephen Belafonte are officially divorced. The former couple have been locked in a bitter court battle for the best part of this year, but the 42-year-old film producer has received the ''most beautiful present he could wish for'' as their troubled 10-year marriage was finally dissolved by Judge Juhas at Los Angeles Superior Court in California on Friday. Speaking to the DailyMail.com outside the courtroom, Stephen said: ''This is the most beautiful present I could wish for.
I'm newly single and ready to mingle.''
The former Spice Girls singer wasn't in court when the ruling was made but she has been forced to cover his legal fees - estimated to be around £180,000 - and has agreed to split the proceeds of the sale of the companies they created together.