Murphy Named As Dad On Mel B Baby's Birth Certificate

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has reignited her paternity feud with Eddie Murphy after she named the actor on her newborn daughter's birth certificate.

The singer, formally known as Scary Spice, gave birth to Fortuna Daphne Bay last week, but she now faces a paternity battle with Murphy, who insists he isn't the tot's father.

However, a friend of Brown tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "Mel has no doubt Eddie is the father and she wanted to make the point."

The couple dated for six months last year until Murphy announced on TV that "we're not together anymore".

Last November - a month after Brown announced her pregnancy news - the Dreamgirls actor publicly dismissed her claims of paternity on Dutch TV show RTL Boulevard, saying, "I don't know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test."