Melanie Brown files petition to establish Eddie Murphy as father of her daughter

LOS ANGELES (AP) Melanie Brown filed a Superior Court petition that seeks to legally establish Eddie Murphy as the father of her four-month-old daughter.

Brown will also seek sole custody of Angel Iris Murphy Brown and reasonable child support, attorney Gloria Allred said at a news conference.

"I am here today for one reason and one reason only; her name is Angel," Brown said. "Angel is my baby and Eddie's. She will always know that she was planned and wanted by both of us."

Arnold Robinson, a spokesman for the 46-year-old actor, declined to comment.

"We just don't comment on Eddie Murphy's personal life," he said.

Allred said in a statement that a DNA test has shown that Murphy is the father.

The statement said the test "established paternity but paternity has not been legally acknowledged."

Murphy has shown "shocking and appalling" conduct since the test, the statement said.

Brown, aka Scary Spice of the Spice Girls, dated Murphy last year. The 32-year-old singer gave birth to her daughter April 3. She listed Murphy as the father on the birth certificate.

Murphy took the DNA test in June, Allred said.

Murphy has five children from his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy, who filed for divorce in 2005.

Brown also has an 8-year-old daughter. The Spice Girls recently reunited for a tour that is scheduled to begin later this year.

John Lennon's glasses sell though maybe not for $1.5 million

(Bloomberg) Sunglasses once owned by the late Beatle John Lennon sold today for an undisclosed amount on the U.K. Web site, 991.com. The British Broadcasting Corp. earlier said the glasses had attracted bids as high as $1.5 million.

A U.K. Beatles fan bought the glasses and will lend them to a Liverpool museum next year, said John Warner, 991.com's marketing director. The site never released a price estimate for the glasses, which Lennon wore during a 1966 Japanese concert tour, he said.

"We're not really in the auction business, and we didn't put any value on the glasses," Warner said in an interview, declining to disclose the price. "This was a one-off for us." The Web site was set up earlier this year by two longtime memorabilia traders based in Kent, England.

The glasses probably fetched much less than $1.5 million, auctioneers said. A pair of Lennon's yellow-tinted glasses fetched £55,000 ($111,645) in 2005, said Stuart Hellier, assistant to Louise Cooper of the U.K. auction house Cooper Owen. A handwritten lyric of "All You Need Is Love" sold for a record 600,000 pounds before commission at Cooper Owen in 2005.

Lennon glasses don't often come up at auction houses. Cooper Owen has sold three sets since 2000, and one with a minimum price of 30,000 pounds failed to sell last year, Hellier said. Christie's International sold a pair for $8,625 in 1996, a spokeswoman said. Reproductions are common on eBay Inc.

The star, born in Liverpool in 1940, was shot dead outside his New York apartment house in 1980. Lennon chose not to wear glasses during the early years with the Beatles. He said he had difficulty playing the guitar as a result.