EDDIE MURPHY, MEL B, NICOLE AND TRACEY EDMONDS: AS THE WORLD OF BLACK HOLLYWOOD TURNS

It's The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving

Eddie Muphy.

When you heard his name back in the day you thought about Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, Shrek, right?

Cut to Thursday at L.A.'s The Ivy, a spot on Robertson Boulevard sandwiched between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood where NOONE goes just to eat. If you chewing it up at this tasty, known paparazzi hang-up, you have made a calculated decision to put your business all out on the street.

Which leads us to the Ex-Eddie's club meeting where Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, was holding court while toting 4-month-old daughter Angel Iris.

Her lunch companion was none other than Nicole Murphy and her 5-year-old daughter Bella, her youngest of five children with the iconic Black actor, comedian and procreator of mankind.

With Nicole now residing in Manhattan Beach some 20 miles away, in LA traffic that trek took at least an hour, not counting camera prep time.

Which begs the question, are we getting ready to witness a girlfight with Babyface's ex Tracey Murphy, um... we mean Edmonds?

So why didn't Mel B meet Nicole over in her neck of the woods?
Because they wanna' shut him down!