Staggering wealth gap of Spice Girls from country pile & £440m fortune to star living in mum’s bungalow… amid new feud

THE Spice Girls surely weren't Wannabes backmost successful the 1990s and aboriginal noughties.

They were 1 of the biggest miss groups successful the world, but that didn't halt the 5 members from having spats.

And 30 years aft forming, the set is inactive struggling to spot oculus to oculus arsenic their lives instrumentality antithetic directions - and their net worths are world's apart.

Geri Halliwell has caused chaos aft reportedly pulling retired of a TV bid that was expected to nett the girls £1million each.

It would person been a dramatised mentation of the girls' way to stardom, and they would each nett the immense sum for fundamentally doing nothing.

A root said: “As the negotiations ramped up, the others were told Geri had objected. The plans person fundamentally been thrown out.”

Over the years, the girls haven't struggled for play - often falling foul of each other.

And their wildly differing earnings, among different things, whitethorn good person been a root of tension.

Despite making a luck successful their heyday, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell look to person soared up successful the wealthiness stakes.

'Geri doesn't request it'

Mel C, Mel B and Emma Bunton haven't been rather arsenic cautious with their currency - not that immoderate of them are that abbreviated of it.

PR guru Mark Borkowski said: “What it each truly boils down to is money and bash the radical progressive successful this benignant of happening request it.

“And successful this instance, Geri doesn't request it. Before that, it was Victoria saying no.

“Things similar this ever travel down to who wants it and who needs the money.”

While they mightiness person been promoting miss powerfulness with their music, that doesn't mean things down the scenes were harmonious.

At their peak, they were thought to person earned astir £59.5million per year.

By May 1998, Geri announced she was leaving the radical owed to depression and differences betwixt the group, conscionable arsenic they were astir to embark connected a North American tour.

Her departure deed a peculiarly sore enactment for Mel B, arsenic the announcement came retired connected her birthday, without warning.

Mark said: “Behind the scenes, things aren't ever going to beryllium hunky-dory.

“It's similar a household dynamic, radical volition reason and person that benignant of sibling rivalry. Things don't ever spell smoothly.”

While the different 4 carried connected for different 3 years, successful 2001, they went connected hiatus, insisting it wasn't a imperishable end.

Profitable marriage

Since leaving the group, Geri hasn't struggled overmuch for currency - and is present worthy £440million.

In her archetypal 3 years arsenic a solo artist, her company, Wonderful Productions, reported a £13.1million turnover and she paid herself £8.9million.

After that, her accounts went dormant from 2001 until 2018, erstwhile she opted to get progressive successful a Spice Girls reunion.

It saw the girls, barroom Victoria, travel unneurotic for a six-date tour, which netted the 4 progressive £2.2million each.

The pursuing year, The Daily Mail reported Geri's institution was worthy £3million and she had paid herself £1million from it.

In 2022, she paid herself £762,240 but past year’s accounts showed losses of £77,994 but held reserves of astir £1.4million.

She bolstered her fortunes by marrying Red Bull brag Christian Horner successful 2015.

He is believed to person been paid implicit £8million per twelvemonth for his relation with the F1 firm.

Together, the mates rake successful £2.4million successful rental properties and other winnings from horse racing investments.

But the couple's imagination beingness has tally into problems aft Christian was accused of “inappropriate behaviour” by a pistillate workfellow and sending “sexually suggestive” texts.

The mates are trying to rebuild their representation and person adjacent been spotted being followed by TV cameras - which whitethorn beryllium portion of her determination to propulsion retired of the Spice Girls TV project.

Mark said: “Geri has already been successful the spotlight getting hassle for her husband.

“The past happening she'll privation to bash is beryllium drafting attraction to herself extracurricular of trying to rebuild their image.

“She's already got cameras astatine home, truthful she doesn't request the Spice Girls TV task again.

“Another monolithic task volition conscionable disturbance things up again and that's the past happening she needs.”

£455m fortune

Like Geri, Victoria refused to instrumentality portion successful the 2007 Spice Girls reunion, owed to the information she was disquieted it mightiness harm her burgeoning manner career.

She astir signed up to the 2019 1 - but pulled retired astatine the past minute.

A immense enactment broke retired betwixt Victoria and Mel B implicit text, and a root claimed astatine the time: “The girls are furious with Victoria for initially agreeing to reunite, astatine 1 signifier she adjacent threatened to spell ineligible if the girls cashed successful connected the marque minus her.”

Victoria’s manner statement was launched successful September 2008 and by 2011 it had go a regular personage staple.

Last year, Victoria’s manner statement was estimated to beryllium worthy astir $70 cardinal (£55.3m).

Victoria decidedly doesn’t request the other currency either, having joined David Beckham successful 1999.

The erstwhile Manchester United fable is 1 of the richest sportspeople successful the world, and together, the mates are worthy a whopping £455 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2024.

They unrecorded successful a £12 cardinal converted barn successful the bosom of the Cotswolds, which featured successful the Beckham Netflix documentary.

The mansion, which is simply a stone's propulsion distant from the personage haunt Soho Farmhouse, has an Estonian sauna, arsenic good arsenic a swimming excavation and immense garden.

Broke and surviving with mum

Mel B was hopeless for the 2019 circuit to spell ahead, owed to the information she’d been near penniless by her abusive ex-husband Stephen Belafonte, having spent her net connected ineligible fees and payments to him, on with a lump sum of £274,000 positive £3,900 a period successful kid enactment for their daughter, Madison.

She was adjacent forced to merchantability her Hollywood mansion successful 2017 and determination backmost to Leeds to unrecorded successful her mum’s bungalow successful 2019.

“I wasn't conscionable emotionally and physically abused, determination was each the fiscal maltreatment too,” she said successful her 2018 memoir, Brutally Honest. “I didn't realise that I didn't person arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic I thought I had. So I virtually had to devour humble pie, unrecorded with my mum.

“Obviously immoderate concern is amended than being with your abuser, but erstwhile you've near that benignant of abusive situation, it's similar starting each implicit again. You person to larn to spot people. You person to larn to spot yourself.”

By 2021, Mel had built a batch of her net backmost up, banking £1 million, and she said being backmost successful her hometown of Leeds had helped her get backmost connected her feet.

She said: “My mum's 1 of 7 truthful I'm surrounded by friends, family, aunties, uncles, nephews, nieces – the full 9 yards,”

Earlier this year, Mel announced she had purchased her ain home. 

"I've been looking astatine houses connected and disconnected for the past mates of years, knowing I didn't person the wealth to spend them," she told the BBC. "But I conscionable enactment my caput down, worked and lived frugally, and hence I've been capable to bargain my ain house."

Taxman troubles

Emma Bunton has built up a £24 cardinal luck since Spice Girls, acknowledgment to a solo career, assorted TV appearances, arsenic good arsenic presenting connected Heart radio.

She and her hubby Jade Jones besides launched plant-based household merchandise Kit & Kin successful 2017, earning them a spot much cash.

But Emma got successful occupation with the taxation antheral earlier this year, owed to the windfall of £4 cardinal she made for her steadfast Monsta Touring Ltd from the 2019 reunion.

She placed the concern into voluntary liquidation successful 2021, believing she had settled her bills aft paying £748,014 successful corp tax erstwhile the circuit ended.

She was handed a 2nd measure worthy £185,006 to settee her affairs aft she started the liquidation.

However, HMRC past said Emma had a further 3rd indebtedness to pay.

Liquidators for Monsta revealed: “Our knowing was that each taxation had already been paid. Since March 2023, we person been successful correspondence with HMRC to resoluteness the position. This is ongoing.”

£24m fortune

Mel C has managed to amass a £24 cardinal luck since her clip successful the Spice Girls.

This has been acknowledgment to a palmy solo career, arsenic good arsenic a mates of TV stints including being a justice connected Superstar successful 2012, arsenic good arsenic a manager connected The Voice Kids successful 2021.

Most recently, she was connected Celebrity Gogglebox with her erstwhile contention car operator brother, Paul O’Neill, giving fans a uncommon glimpse into her London pad.

Clearly a Spice Girl with costly taste, she has antecedently confessed she couldn’t unrecorded with her Egyptian fabric furniture sheets oregon Peloton workout bike, which tin outgo up to £2,199.