Eddie Murphy has finally taken a DNA paternity test to determine whether he's the father of "Scary Spice" Melanie Brown's 2-month-old daughter, sources tell PEOPLE.
Murphy, 46, took the test on Monday at a Beverly Hills medical facility. "Eddie came in half an hour after Mel B. and the baby," says a source. "They didn't want to run into each other."
Results of the test could take anywhere from five days to three weeks.
Brown, 32, welcomed the baby, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, on April 3, and has long insisted Murphy is the child's father.
She and the comic dated last summer, but in December Murphy told a Dutch TV show of Brown's pregnancy: "I don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test."
In March, Murphy's current girlfriend, Tracey Edmonds, told Chicago's Power 92 radio station: "There'll be a paternity test and if it's [Eddie's] then he'll be responsible."
But last month, Brown told PEOPLE Murphy had refused to take a paternity test and said she was planning to take him to court to force him to do so.
She also said Murphy also had not contacted her since Angel was born: "He hasn't seen his daughter. My people have contacted his people and they just had no response to anything."
When reached for comment by PEOPLE, Murphy's rep, Arnold Robinson, said at the time: "We do not comment on Mr. Murphy's personal life."
He finally came out of the woods and took the test, huh? Um. For someone who claims he isn't the child's father and talked so much about taking a blood test, he sure dragged his feet on getting it done. I think he's the child's father and I think he knows he's the daddy, but it will be proven once the results come back.
Tracey Edmonds must really love herself some Eddie. Anytime you're on a radio talk show discussing HIS situation when he barely talks about it himself. I wonder why she was on the radio in the first place? What does she have going on that she got air time period? Somebody needs to ask her what happened between she and Babyface. But you never know. She could be glad that all of the light is on Eddie so she won't have to talk about her recent divorce.
Eddie is acting like an ass. Seems to me he would have run and taken the test as soon as the baby was born before she even left the hospital. I wonder if he will even see the baby when if it is proven that he is the baby's dad.
It didn't make any sense to me to wait to take the damn test. If he had doubts about the paternity of the baby then he should have taken the test and gotten it over with. Not waiting and dragging it out like this and with the media all in his business. He looks like a damn fool. I think the baby is his as well. Why else would he wait so long to take the test besides being plain dumb.
