Halle Berry is speaking out against her ex-husband Olivier Martinez, after he accused the actor of physically abusing their 12-year-old son and was granted a restraining order against the Oscar winner. <\/p>\n
Marina Beck, an attorney for the 60-year-old \u201cCatwoman\u201d and \u201cJohn Wick: Chapter 3\u201d star, in a statement downplayed Martinez\u2019s protective order, granted Thursday by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo say this filing is entirely meritless and deliberately misleading would be an understatement,\u201d Beck said, later accusing Martinez of repeatedly violating court orders and interfering with \u201cnecessary therapeutic and educational interventions to the detriment\u201d of his son with Berry. <\/p>\n
The attorney added: \u201cIn a way, today\u2019s filing is not entirely unexpected from an individual with a well-documented history of erratic, possessive and violent behavior. Fortunately, Halle is used to this kind of outrageous conduct from Mr. Martinez and, while she is deeply saddened, she will not allow it to deter her from fighting for Maceo\u2019s best interests and providing him with the love and support he needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patrick Baghdaserians, an attorney for Martinez, did not comment on the statement from Berry\u2019s legal team, but said the welfare and safety of Berry and Martinez\u2019s child remains paramount.<\/p>\n
According to the order reviewed by The Times, Berry is prohibited from contacting Martinez, 60, and their son Maceo beyond the terms of her August 2023 split-custody agreement<\/a>. The judge also modified the actor\u2019s visitation time, limiting her hours with her son to Mondays, Tuesdays and weekends between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.<\/p>\n Berry and Martinez wed in France in July 2013, shortly after confirming they were expecting a baby together. They welcomed their son in October. Berry shares a daughter with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. The actor was also previously married to ex-MLB pro David Justice and singer-actor Eric Ben\u00e9t and is currently engaged to musician Van Hunt. <\/p>\n Berry filed to divorce Martinez in October 2015. Their divorce finally came to an end after eight years in August 2023, when they agreed to joint custody of their son and Berry agreed to pay Martinez $8,000 a month in child support. The \u201cMonster\u2019s Ball\u201d actor was also ordered at the time to also pay Martinez 4.3% of any income she receives above $2 million. <\/p>\n Martinez\u2019s request for a domestic violence restraining order centered on an alleged Sept. 26 incident involving Berry and their son. Martinez alleged the actor \u201cphysically abused our son, Maceo, by jumping on him, putting her hands around his neck, and choking him.\u201d <\/p>\n The financial terms of their divorce also appeared to be central to another alleged incident in 2023, when Berry allegedly told Maceo, then 9, that his father is \u201c \u2018a white b\u2014 trying to rob a Black woman\u2019 due to child support issues,\u201d the request said. Martinez\u2019s filing included a declaration of Berry\u2019s alleged history of abuse, screenshots of his text conversation with Berry following the alleged September incident in which she appears to have written, \u201cI feel terrible about what happened last night.\u201d<\/p>\n Martinez requested sole legal and physical custody of Maceo. He also asked that Berry refrain from drinking or partaking in other substances during her visitation time and asked that she complete sobriety testing \u201cbefore, during and after\u201d her visitation, according to court documents. The judge denied those sobriety testing requests until a further hearing for the order on Oct. 16. <\/p>\n Berry has been a vocal supporter for victims of domestic violence and a volunteer at the Jenesse Center,<\/a> a nonprofit organization dedicated to domestic violence intervention and prevention. The actor has also spoken about her own experience with domestic violence growing up. She recalled her father\u2019s abusive treatment of her mother during a gala in 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cShe stayed for too long and her children, my sister and I, saw far too much and I\u2019ve suffered the damage of being a child of domestic violence,\u201d Berry said at the time. <\/p>\n Former Times staff writer Jonah Valdez contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halle Berry is speaking out against her ex-husband Olivier Martinez, after he accused the actor of physically abusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[304782,304787,3376,8593,430,304784,68218,156,26675,27327,671,304783,159767,111,139,69,45822,304786,304785,304788],"class_list":["post-618986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-12-year-old-son","tag-abuse-allegation","tag-actor","tag-berry","tag-celebrities","tag-court-order","tag-domestic-violence","tag-entertainment","tag-filing","tag-halle-berry","tag-incident","tag-maceo","tag-martinez","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-request","tag-restraining-order","tag-visitation-time","tag-well-documented-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}