This combination photo shows actor Eddie Murphy (L) attending a premiere in a February 2007 file photo, and Spice Girl Melanie Brown performing in a March 2003 file photo. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Spice Girl Melanie Brown Wednesday filed a paternity suit against actor Eddie Murphy for her 3-month-old daughter, according to U.S. media reports Thursday.

    The 32-year-old singer filed a petition in Superior Court that seeks to legally establish Murphy as the father of her daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown.

    Brown will also seek sole custody and reasonable child support, attorney Gloria Allred said at a press 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."

    Brown said she and Murphy dated for four months in 2006 before mutually decided to conceive a child.

    "The relationship was in full swing right at the beginning of my pregnancy," Brown said, adding that she was shocked when Murphy later said he was not sure he was the baby's father.

    A DNA test in June confirmed that Murphy, 46, is the father of the baby who was born in April. Brown listed Murphy as the father on the child's birth certificate.

    Celebrity magazines reported this week that Murphy had become engaged to his girlfriend of 10 months, Tracey Edmonds.

    Murphy has five children from his first marriage to Nicole Mitchell, which ended in divorce in April 2006.

    Arnold Robinson, a spokesman for Murphy, declined to comment.

    Brown also has an 8-year-old daughter.

    (Agencies)