{"id":646763,"date":"2026-10-15T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646763\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:14:08","slug":"halle-berry-denies-oliver-martinezs-photo-proof-in-custody-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646763\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry denies Oliver Martinez\u2019s photo \u2018proof\u2019 in custody battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halle Berry has claimed that a photo of her submitted by her ex-husband Oliver Martinez in their custody battle does not prove his allegations she abused their 13-year-old son, Maceo.<\/p>\n

Martinez filed for temporary primary custody<\/a> of Maceo earlier this month over allegations Berry had \u201cchoked\u201d and \u201cphysically abused\u201d their child during an alleged altercation in September. The actress has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

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In the aftermath, Maceo reportedly claimed in a follow-up court filing that Maceo \u201cimmediately\u201d took a photo of Berry after the alleged altercation because he had \u201cbeen roughed up\u201d in the past and \u201cno one believed him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, the Oscar-winning actress has fired back at Martinez\u2019s claims about the photo, saying via her lawyers in a responsive declaration that it \u201cdoes not corroborate abuse, injury, or danger\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt simply shows her standing calmly, with her hands in her pockets, several feet away from Maceo,\u201d the declaration read, per the Daily Mail<\/a>, adding that the picture does not prove Martinez\u2019s \u201callegation that [Berry] strangled\u201d Maceo.<\/p>\n

It comes amid the ongoing fallout of Martinez\u2019s original claims, which led to him being granted temporary primary custody of Maceo earlier this month. <\/p>\n

Berry sought to reinstate the 50\/50 custody arrangement originally in place, with the next hearing in the case slated for October 16.<\/p>\n

The actress was spotted with her son<\/a> in Los Angeles after the allegations broke, at around the same time she claimed Martinez had influenced Maceo to be \u201cangry and combative\u201d towards her.<\/p>\n

Berry\u2019s daughter Nahla Aubry, who she shares with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, came to her mother\u2019s defence<\/a> in a declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week, saying she had \u201cnever seen my mum hit, slap, choke, grab, or physically abuse Maceo in any way\u201d.<\/p>\n

Berry also denied the allegations via her lawyers, saying the custody filing was \u201centirely meritless and deliberately misleading\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The] filing is not entirely unexpected from an individual with a well-documented history of erratic, possessive and violent behaviour,\u201d Berry\u2019s lawyer Marina Beck said.<\/p>\n

Berry and Martinez, both 60, first met on the set of their film, Dark Tide, back in July 2010. They tied the knot in July 2013 and were married for two years, before splitting in October 2015.<\/p>\n

Their extremely contentious divorce took eight years to finalise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halle Berry has claimed that a photo of her submitted by her ex-husband Oliver Martinez in their custody…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[290950,290909,290904,290944,290924,290907,290954,290927,290934,290902,263424,290931,290913,6214,12066,129445,290936,290915,290941,290910,39248,290917,458,248972,290920,284614,290918,146,290937,290925,19778,290942,290914,290923,290906,284609,290940,264718,290911,290919,290912,290921,85,47968,46,290945,290952,23018,1900,125549,286683,290951,187372,290928,43,272157,1268,290956,290908,290955,284934,4355,51477,290938,122423,5786,290953,4952,290947,290929,18129,283319,283311,290922,290930,290916,290935,34861,290932,258572,290905,290958,290933,290949,290901,251428,290948,290903,262005,290939,290957,290926,290946,290943,288841],"class_list":["post-646763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-s-allegation","tag-s-claims","tag-s-daughter-nahla-aubry","tag-s-defence","tag-s-lawyer-marina-beck","tag-s-original-claims","tag-s-photo","tag-2015-their-extremely-contentious-divorce","tag-a-declaration","tag-a-follow-up-court-filing","tag-a-photo","tag-a-responsive-declaration","tag-a-well-documented-history","tag-abuse","tag-actress","tag-allegations","tag-an-alleged-altercation","tag-an-individual","tag-and-martinez","tag-any-way","tag-berry","tag-both-60","tag-celebrities","tag-custody-battle","tag-dark-tide","tag-earlier-this-month","tag-eight-years","tag-entertainment","tag-erratic","tag-ex-boyfriend-gabriel-aubry","tag-halle-berry","tag-her-ex-husband","tag-her-ex-husband-oliver-martinez","tag-her-hands","tag-her-lawyers","tag-her-mother","tag-her-pockets","tag-her-son","tag-her-standing","tag-her-berry","tag-his-allegations","tag-his-child-abuse-allegations","tag-il","tag-injury","tag-israel","tag-july-2010","tag-july-2013","tag-last-week","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-superior-court","tag-maceo","tag-maceo-it","tag-martinez","tag-my-mum-hit","tag-news","tag-no-one","tag-october","tag-october-16-the","tag-oliver-martinez","tag-or-danger","tag-our-new-appin","tag-photo","tag-place","tag-possessive-and-violent-behaviour","tag-proof","tag-september","tag-several-feet","tag-star","tag-temporary-primary-custody","tag-the-50-50-custody-arrangement","tag-the-actress","tag-the-aftermath","tag-the-allegations","tag-the-allegations-be","tag-the-alleged-altercation","tag-the-case","tag-the-custody-filing","tag-the-daily-mail","tag-the-declaration","tag-the-first","tag-the-knot","tag-the-next-hearing","tag-the-ongoing-fallout","tag-the-oscar-winning-actress","tag-the-past","tag-the-photo","tag-the-picture","tag-the-same-time","tag-the-set","tag-the-filing","tag-their-13-year-old-son","tag-their-child","tag-their-custody-battle","tag-their-film","tag-two-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}