In the world today, we have a lot of film producers who know their onions but they are yet to hit the spotlight in Hollywood. Among them is Stephen Stansbury, best known as Stephen Belafonte. He is a successful American actor, filmmaker, producer, and director notable for movies like Thank You for Smoking, Sister, Singing Office and many others.
Other than his burgeoning film career, Belafonte also got famous for other reasons pertaining to his marital life. The multitalented film producer has two high profile divorces to his name one of which was with a former pop star and an X-Factor Judge Melanie Brown popularly called Mel B. The secret behind their divorce was exposed by his ex-wife who appeared in an X-Factor show and accused Stephen of beating her and getting their nanny pregnant.
Bio – Who is Stephen Belafonte?
Stephen Belafonte originally called Stephen Stansbury was born on 18th May 1975 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He is an American citizen who identifies as a Caucasian by Ethnicity. Stansbury changed his birth name at the age of 18 to Stephen Belafonte perhaps to gain more acceptance in Hollywood as the supposed son of The Banana Boat Song singer Harry Belafonte. It was his ex-wife Mel B who disclosed this in her divorce petition.
He schooled in Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California where he graduated from earning a Bachelors degree. Stephen then started his career as an actor at a young age, he revealed that he gained a lot of experiences in the movie industry which led him to create his own film producing firm named Remacy. He has worked on films like Thank you for Smoking (as an associate producer), Bad Lieutenant: Port of call New Orleans and some others. His success as a producer grew to a large scale when he began a relationship with Melanie Brown.
Stephen Belafonte’s net worth is estimated to be about $5, 000, 000 which he makes from film and movie productions. However, it is believed that his net worth will increase the more since his ex-wife Melanie Brown compensated him to the sum of more than $8.3 million following their divorce.
Family – Parents and Grandfather
His parents are Sheryl Stansbury and Thomas Stansbury. Although not much is known of the 6 siblings of Stephen Belafonte except for the fact that he has an elder brother called Jeremiah Stansbury.
No record of his grandfather was noted, but it is believed that Stephen Belafonte is not related to the iconic human right activist and superstar actor Harry Belafonte, following his ex-wife’s revelation as to why he changed his name and his subsequent silence on the subject matter since then. Many people hold it as a truism that he changed his name to Belafonte to gain popularity within the Hollywood circle.
