Spice Girl Melanie Brown wins custody battle with ex
 

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SPICE Girl Melanie Brown has won the right to bring her eldest daughter Phoenix Chi on tour with the girl group after her ex-husband tried to block her travel plans.

Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzar, 40, sought to stop Scary Spice from taking their eight-year-old daughter on the Spice Girls' world tour, claiming it would disrupt his visitation schedule.

After the issue was brought before a Los Angeles court, Judge Robert Schnider ruled that Brown is fully entitled to bring the child with her.

Brown, 32, was awarded full custody of Phoenix after her bitter divorce from Gulzar in 2000, while the dancer was granted visitation rights.

The couple met in 1998 on the Spiceworld Tour and married in September of that year, while Brown was pregnant with Phoenix.

Phoenix was born in February 1999, but her parents decided to split by the end of the year.