The Halle Berry custody battle rages on, and Halle’s people would like us to think that it’s all going in her favor. I consider this latest TMZ report spin from Halle’s camp, as is a lot of what gets reported by TMZ about her. I could be wrong, it could be a totally genius idea to have her new fiance, Oliver Martinez, testify on her behalf about how much better the paparazzi are in France compared to L.A. Or it could just make her reasons for wanting to move to France with her daughter seem transparent and the paparazzi excuse will come across like as much of a smokescreen as it looks like from the outside. At least I’m hoping that happens. Here’s TMZ’s report:
Halle Berry has a secret witness she’s going to call to the stand to support her bid to take Nahla to Paris — her fiance, Olivier Martinez.
Sources close to the case tell TMZ … Halle’s lawyer will ask Martinez — a famous actor — about his experience with paparazzi in Paris. Martinez will say the photogs are far more respectful and less aggressive in gay Paris than their counterparts in the US of A.
Martinez will also discuss their living arrangement and his involvement with Nahla. He will also tell the judge that Halle is a class A mother.
As for how the case is going, we’re told baby daddy Gabriel Aubry is having trouble making his case. On Thursday, one of Halle’s expert witnesses left the courthouse early without even testifying — he was there to counter one of Gabriel’s experts, but there was no need for a rebuttal because sources connected with Gabriel tell TMZ … his expert kinda crashed and burned.
The last we heard from Gabriel’s side, the official child custody report recommended that Nahla not be separated from her father. So I doubt that this is as cut and dried as Halle’s people would like to have us believe. That said, I truly don’t know how this is going to turn out. Halle seems to stop at nothing to get her way, and I only hope that the judge can see through that. Having her new fiance testify on her behalf seems like dumb and arrogant move, one that may backfire on her.
Radar reported reported last week that Halle and Gabriel’s custody trial would last “another 10 full days,” so we may be hearing something about this next week. That is unless Halle calls in more of her besties to try and bolster her case.
Halle is shown out at the movies with Nahla and a little friend on Saturday. She’s also shown out with Olivier on 8-11-12. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com
I would like to see Gabe have all of Halle’s ex-mounts testify to her character & what they feel is best for the child. Let the court hear from them all what she dis and said when their relationships came to an end.
+1. Hope this backfires on her.
What a great idea!
“Olivier Martinez – a famous actor’…on what planet if I may ask?
Doesn’t he own other clothes than the jeans/work boots/black t-shirt combo? Most unappealing!
+100000!!! I’m starting to hate that “every single day of his life” outfit!! Jeez Halle buy him some new clothes!
Judges are not so stupid, Halle. Even in a case with not filthy rich people, a current girlfriend or boyfriend of one of the parties isn’t given much credibility because it is understood they are BIASED or at least have a distored view based on wanting to make the current partner happy. And the judge knows that if OM wasn’t going to say exaclty what Halle wanted him to say, she would not put him on the stand. I guess she is making her lawyer do this as it is a poor strategic move and no sane lawyer would do it otherwise.
She can put him on the stand if she wants but no judge would accept OM’s testimony as “expert” evidence of what the paps are like in France.
I can’t get over how hateful and spiteful this woman is. She can try all she wants to remove Gabrielle from their daughter’s life, but ultimately it will backfire on her. There are so many deadbeat dads who never make an effort to be a part of their child’s life, so why intentionally take away a father who is committed?
Agree. She has HUGE issues, she needs theraphy, not a new romantic relationship.
Also, I’d like to know exactly how, in her crazy little brain, making herself appear to be an “A plus” mother should bring a conscientious judge to the conclusion that separating the child from her father is the right way to go. That’s some fracked up thinking!
Gosh, Nahla is sooo going to HATE Halle when she grows older!
That’s what I always think too. You want your daughter to resent you? Intentionally take her away from her biological dad, just because your relationship with him didn’t work out.
I remember her saying how great Gabrielle was and how it was the most normal relationship she ever had back in the day. I don’t care what changed that, but get over it. If she was really concerned about the paps and that’s why she wants to relocate to France, then why not Nebraska or Wyoming?
This! @ all 3 comments above ^.
Wow, what a piece of work she is! Good luck Gabe & Nahla!
How can a fiance’s testimony be credible? I mean of course he is going to lie for his fiancee. And his level of popularity is no where near Halle’s so his testimony is moot. I am only surpirsed this farce of a trial has gone on this long. I do wonder if Gabriel has good counsel since based on the few leaks coming from them it does not sound like they are focused on the right things. I wonder how much research they have done and why in the world have they not demanded this narcissist be evaluated by a doctor. Anyone can see she has narcissistic personality disorder.
I don’t think her behavior will backfire on her if she is allowed to get her way. Look at her she learned that from someone. She certainly doesn’t hate her mom, which is probably the woman who taught her this bahavior. So more than likely this beautiful girl will turn out like her mom.
The worst part of this? It’s that in a few short years we’ll have to go through all this again when she and Olivier break up. Which is a given.
Is the guy really that famous in France? And unpapped?
Seriously, anybody else is realizing the only pictures of Nahla in the papers lately are ONLY with Halle? And yes, I mean, there haven’t been pictures of Nahla with her father for a while. Couldn’t this means that it is actually possible to avoid paparazzi in LA?
Hope the lawyers and all the other people in the trial realizes that too…
ITA.
I am SO sick of this woman and her narcissistic drama. She’s starting to annoy me as much as Horsey Rimes does.
I THOUGHT this was supposed to be about Nahla and HER best interests, not just about Halle getting her tantrum throwing, *selfish*-assed way. Is it just me?
Good point. If this is Gabriel’s strategy, it shows his attorneys are a lot better than hers. I have always thought her attorneys should be fired for going forward with this paparazzi argument. The judge should fine them for taking up the court’s time.
I’m just sad that martinez has wasted his good looks. Horseman on the roof? (with juliette binoche) Hot. Unfaithful? Smoking hot. Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone? Hot.
And now look at him. Washed up and clinging to cuckoo Halle Berry. Totally bums me out.
we’re in agreement on “Unfaithful”.
::le sigh::
As others have mentioned in previous Halle/custody threads – Princess Diana’s car was hounded by paparazzi… in Paris. Maybe she wouldn’t have died, had the driver been sober, but the fact is they chased her.
And now, 15 years on, everyone and their grandma has a digital camera/smartphone/whatever, and European tabloids pay their readers serious money for pics of celebs, on top of using all those paparazzi agencies that are around.
By what standard is Olivier being called a famous actor? Isn’t he more known for who he dates than the films he makes? And what pertinent information can he provide? Anything he says is going to be biased in Halle’s favor.
Probably best if Gabriel not be in court that day. If I want to slap Olivier for participating in this farce, I can’t imagine how Gabriel would feel hearing some man talk about taking his child away.
The kid always seems to be one or two steps behind her, even with Halle holding her hand. Color me not-a-Halle-fan but shouldn’t you walk with your child, not drag them behind you?
I’ve slowed my steps many times so the little one could keep up. If I’m in a rush, I’ll carry her.
Pff. I just don’t like her.
I noticed this too! She’s dragging her along to keep up with her man!
HB: Ollie is just a foreigner, or he’d tell you himself: I only want precious Parisian anonymity — and I don’t want my baby growing up where she can’t go to Italy and London and Peru and Sydney all the same day, as French children get to do. That’s important to a child’s development. Just ask my agent.
GA: Your honor, hey, I just wanted to say —
HB: I want her to have the opportunities a child can only have living overseas – I don’t want her growing up disadvantaged here, like a Kennedy or a Steve Jobs or like the President’s kids. Ollie thinks so too. Thank god he can gave up many movie offers to finally be here today to SEE what I’m going through!
GA: She —
HB: I’m going to scream if someone doesn’t listen to Ollie and me! I am just a normal caring mother who wants my child to have what Carla Bruni and Salma Hayak and Princess Grace and Charlene got: the chance for her to marry an obscenely rich intellectual powerbroker who can tell everyone they need to do what I want, instead of just an abusive male model or a sports figure! If she has to stay in this country– you want me to show you what a mother trying to protect her baby can do to this court reporter’s arm? Because bitch, I’ll show you! Yeah, try and run! I got your hair!
GA: Uh, yeah, so, that – that’s what I –
HB: And, this is not about me – it’s about: not him! You’re saying you think it’s okay for male models to be around children?! Can you HEAR yourself? When I see the pictures of him in his sportswear forcing my poor baby to enjoy herself at a street fair, I could just grab a giant huge knife and run and stick it in his chest twenty times! You want that around a child? If he gets what he wants, that would mean I wouldn’t get what I want. Which would mean that Yvette Ylang Ylang Bean, who tells me things I need to know in my head for my happiness, would tell me it’s time to chop his head off once and for all by swinging my huge killing ax I got ten years ago in case the wrong guy tried to keep my magic baby and destroy the dream life I have, which I have drawings of pasted onto the walls of my panic room. Or, I could just throw acid at his moneymaker.
GA: —- okay, see? – that part – it’s kinda– ?
HB: Now Yvette Ylang Ylang Bean is saying I could rent a big truck and find him and drive it right over him, then I lean out the window and shoot and shoot him –is it okay to let a model near the child of an Academy Award winning mother, when THAT could happen at any time, day or night, anywhere, even, later today?
GA: — like, someone– I am pretty heck sure that’s not, like, good?
HB: That’s why it was such a miracle when Ollie proposed! Right baby? Nod! See I first told him no, because I wanted to move to France so my baby would grow up without being annoyed by the male model who makes her laugh so then she comes home and when I try to make her hit his picture again and again with our Spank Daddy To Death hair brush, she looks at me and won’t do it. But Ollie grabbed my face and said it’s okay because HE was already French! I was all, oh, you are, that’s so amazing! Because otherwise, if I was over there and French people kept talking at me in words I don’t know I would need to grab and choke them and punch their eyes for looking at my magic baby and me – what? Her father gets to stay in her life? But that’s not what I want. Yvette Ylang Ylang Bean says she put protective anti-model blow darts in my bag, and now is the time —
GA: — your Honor, hey, I’m like sorry, but it’s noon, and I have this GAP thing I totally have to be at – what? yeah, sure, little French dude, I can give you a ride.
😆
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @
“…what? yeah, sure, little French dude, I can give you a ride.”
little French dude is the B-E-S-T! ha! 😆
LOL That made me cry… almost. Who knows, maybe the trial is really like that…
LOL!
this seems closer to the truth then what anyone else is reporting…..bwahahahaha…. poor gabe!
So having your live-in lover… who you knew for a hot second… and that you promptly moved into your home… with your toddler daughter….
Having this man, speak in open court will boost your case?
Since when?
Can you image if this was a normal everyday couple.
Fighting over custody of a minor child.
If the bio-father could prove that the Mother, moved a strange man into her home. Only after knowing him a hot second.
Do you really think a Judge is going to let that Mother take off out of the country. With a man she is not married to.
Whom has been shacked up with her? Not in a million years would this be in her favor.
This is the stuff fathers pray for. To prove the Mother only has concern for her own personal needs.
I am kind of surprise that David Justice or Eric Benet have not ended up with a subpoena to offer their insights to her crazy.
Ohhh… I never have believed that Halle has any intentions of marry this fool, Oliver. She just needed to justify him living in her home.
@Hautie – Agreed. She will only marry this guy if plan a, b, c and d do not work, which so far none of these plans have panned out. Of course, I am not sure which plan she is on now, but it is clear she is spinning out one of her schemes. She is so transparent.
I hate the fact this child is being dragged into a courtroom (if those are the right pics) so her mother can separate her from her father – its heartbreaking.
The heartbreaking thing about it is he’s such a good dad
Remember when she was married to her last husband and he had a daughter who’s mother was either dead or a deadbeat mom? Halle was calling herself the girl’s mom, and when she divorced her husband, she also shelved the daughter–I thought this was horrible and haven’t liked her since
India’s biological mother died. And Halled supposedly adopted her at least that is what she said. I can never find anything on line verifying whether she actually did adobt India. I think she probably didn’t but her intentions were clear she thought of India as her daughter but it is obvious she dropped India like a hot rock.
She didn’t adopt her, Eric Benet said so himself. However,drop her she did.
How could Martinez go from going out with a totally sweet person like Kylie Minogue to this crazy superb***h and not run a mile?! crazy.
batsh-t crazy women usually have some skills to keep the men in their life, and its part of the hollywood game for him, i think. it raises his profile.
Remember not so long ago she was screaming at
paparazzi? I believe the incident was staged, or she saw an opportunity and went for it. Please let there be a sane judge in this case who can see Hallie for what she is doing. Team Gabriel.
Is her “Oscar” on the line up of people to testify.
I think Halle doesn’t yet want to realize her own father never fought this hard for her. Gabriel is not enough of a prick to deal a final blow. This is obviously about control and Halle has serious undealt with issues. She’s oblivious to the hardship she’s putting Nahla through for the sake of not letting go. I seriously doubt Gabriel is the type of man to willfully hurt Halle and after winning his rightful role in his daughter’s life, he won’t be out to hurt Halle anymore than he ever did before. She needs to trust. Gabriel is not bad people here.
Well if she’s going to use Olivier, then Gabriel should use India, so she can rebuff the claim that Halle is a grade A mom seeing as she just threw her away when she and Eric divorced.
And what about the daughter she supposedly adopted? What ever became of that? Shouldn’t that be used against her? Abandonment.
It is interesting how some loathe how Halle is supposedly harming Gabriel and by extension her daughter but in fact this is what she has always done to her black husbands. Yet her unproven allegations against her father and ex-husbands were readily believed in the mainstream press. Hmmmmmmm just a thought. I ceased being interested since “Monster’s Ball”; she was at the pinnacle of her personal success as she became the “token” now replaced by Zoe Salanda. Personally, there is no ill-will just dis-interest.
Reading all your comments, I have to say that Gabriel should probably take few of you to advice him with the case, at least it looks many of you remember the India thing, would call few interesting witnesses (Halle’s exs), and actually have realized he has no the same problems with the papz that Halle has.
Maybe his lawyers should read this web’s comments… I think.
And btw, guess you remember when Halle and Olivier were in Paris few months ago, right? There were a lot of pictures of them in every single corner of the city, why she thinks that’s not gonna happen again if she moves there? She stood there for few day and there were at least 20 pictures…
Really, lawyers READ THIS.
What’s with her pants? I don’t know enough about her or the whole drama here, but in most cases , if the dad and mom both want to be in the child’s life, that’s the healthiest way to go. Every case is different but it seems like GA is a good father. What an idiot to bring her new boyfriend/fiance’ into the courtroom; he has no business being there.
Hideous pants. Scared me. I hope I never encounter them in real life. I might never recover.
If she wins, Gabriel will have little or no future contact with his daughter. This isn’t right. Halle was with him for five years and had a child with him, so the father deserves to have joint custody, equal time with his daughter. The paps also pursue everyone, not just Halle. This is one of the prices of fame that you have to pay. I don’t agree with over-papping, especially children, but if Oliver hadn’t come along, would she still have made plans to move to France? I doubt it. Maybe she should live half the year in France, half the year in U.S. so that the father can have equal custody. Although the child should not have to move from country to country. Maybe Halle should live in the U.S. and take frequent trips to France to be with Oliver, making the child’s home here in the U.S.
I so hope this backfires on her, as many of her other ploys have backfired. Her fiancee is going to testify what a great Mom she is? Gee, that’s not biased at all, is it? I seriously wonder if they are even engaged for real – did Berry make him a deal – say we’re engaged so I can move to France and I’ll make it worth your while? Because one thing is for certain – babe will resort to any tactic she can think of to try and get her way…
She does seem tough…at one time, she and Gabriel were madly in love, imagine. Is Gabriel really so horrible that she would not want him to have contact, because this seems to be the real issue. Nahla is a darling little girl, and I’m sure her father loves her, too. I do not think it would be right to move the child so far away that her father would not be able to be near her, do you?
Even if she gets to legally kidnap her daughter from Aubry she loses in the end. No fans, no money. I can’t wait to see her drag that poor hot French man through the mud, too. She’s scum in my book. She should be so lucky to have her ex be so crazy about his daughter.
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