TMZ obtained documents in Halle Berry’s child support case in which the actress seeks to reduce her monthly child support payment to her ex boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, from $16,000 a month to just $3,800 a month. We heard a couple of weeks ago that Berry sought to have her monthly payment reduced, and now there are more details in the case. Berry and Aubry share 50/50 custody of their daughter, Nahla, 6. Aubry is a male model who used to command top dollar from brands such as Valentino, Versace and DKNY. He’s fallen on hard times lately and in recent court documents says that he suffered six months without work following a Thanksgiving, 2012 beatdown from Halle’s then-fiance now-husband, Olivier Martinez, which injured his face. Halle claims that he’s a freeloader, essentially, and that he’s not working because he gets enough to live on from her substantial child support. Here’s some of TMZ’s report.
Gabriel Aubry is fighting Halle Berry’s attempt to slash his child support by more than 400% … because her husband beat the crap out of him so bad he can’t get work, but the photos tell a different story.
TMZ has obtained documents filed in their never-ending custody and support war. We broke the story … Halle is trying to reduce Gabriel’s child support for 6-year-old Nahla from $16K a month to around $3,800 a month.
Gabriel refers to the Thanksgiving day fight in Halle’s driveway back in 2012, in which he accuses Olivier Martinez of a sneak attack that pulverized his face. He says it took him 6 months to heal before he could possibly work again, and since then he’s only gotten 3 gigs.
But we checked out photos of Gabriel, and just 6 weeks after the fight there’s barely a sign of injury.
Halle attacks Gabriel as a deadbeat who is using child support to avoid having to work. She says, “There is no case, no law, no logic that says a healthy, active man gets to simply live off child support that the wealthier mother earns.”
And in Halle’s docs, her lawyer, Steve Kolodny, says Gabriel uses monthly child support for his own needs, including:
$740 a month for Gabriel’s “Fitness”
$940 a month in clothing (Gabriel lists Nahla’s clothing expenses separately — $675 a month)
$700 a month for Gabriel’s health insurance
$1,975 a month in car expenses
$1,100 a month in furniture and electronics
Imagine if the genders were reversed and Aubry was a woman who was injured by her ex’s girlfriend and was no longer able to work as a model. There would be much more sympathy for that side. Plus there’s no way to tell from photos that Aubry looked acceptable for modeling 6 weeks after the injury. Looking fine in paparazzi photos and having the ability to model professionally are two different things. TMZ is firmly in camp Halle because she’s their source.
Meanwhile, a source close to Halle tells People Magazine that Halle “does feel that he is abusing the system and taking advantage of her. Halle does work hard for her money, and it’s not easy for her to juggle the two kids with her work schedule. It’s understandable that she feels Gabriel should be able to make enough money to support Nahla.” Surely there’s some kind of balance here where Aubry can work more than he does and Halle can pay him somewhat less without reducing his yearly child support payment to just $45k a year. That’s a drop in the bucket to her. This isn’t about what’s best for Nahla, it’s about Halle sticking it to her ex. Child support is determined by the income of the wealthier parent, not by some arbitrary system where someone’s expenses are nitpicked.
Gabriel Aubry is shown with Nahla in August, 2014 and alone in August, 2013. Halle Berry is shown at the airport (leopard print hat) on 10-17-14 and at an event on 10-16-14. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com
I loathe Halle Berry. She’s such a vindictive Beeyotch.
Imagine if Halle and Oliver split up? That will make her beef with Gabriel look like a walk in the park.
Only if Olivier doesn’t settle with the role of sperm donor, as she so wishes Aubry would’ve had. Since he decided to be an actual father to Nahla, she’s creating all this trouble. The woman has serious and very real issues with father figures.
Is Olivier making ANY big money these days? He looks awful. Halle may be supporting their household too with her money.
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Not sure. He’s opened a club and is a partner in a chain. His movies are horrible and don’t really do well though he still makes them. I suspect Halle is the breadwinner. If they seperate Halle will cry the same things she’s accused Aubry of. Violence, racism, freeloading. It’s coming.
agree. This woman is such an asshole.
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Hey, Halle? How much does Gabe have to spend on the bodyguards you demand and the private security services for your daughter? He’s not the celeb, you are, and since you are, the paps are interested in your daughter.
I hope Gabe prevails. I just can’t with this vindictive woman. Olivier? You better have a good attorney lined up. You’re next.
It would cost more than 3,800 for a nanny for a month. If he’s a good dad, she should cough up and shut up. It’s peanuts to her.
She is 10000000% right. It is a disgrace when ANYONE male or female, straight or gay, who is fit bodied & capable of working, instead chooses to sponge off another person. These lazy gold digging creeps have no pride & it is astonishing that lawyers manage to secure these ridiculous settlements for them
I agree.
She has her issues and I get it but this does seem a bit excessive to me.
Why should she pay for his “fitness”?
We’ll probably be in the minority here, but I agree with you. I don’t care if the genders were reversed. It makes no sense for someone who is fit bodied and capable of working to live off of child support. What is he going to do in about a dozen years when Nahla is an adult?
I’m going to agree with you all as well.
Note that these are her lawyers docs. Nothing in there actually says that he not paying for his own expenses.
If I recall, she got socked with this child support payment after trying to get custody, in part due to security issues about where he was living and pap activity. She basically screwed herself over, because the judge upped child support to allow for better housing and better security.
Interesting to see that none of those things seem to have made it into her lawyers docs.
I agree 100%. The fact that Halle Berry is worth X million dollars shouldn’t really matter – at the end of the day, it’s money that SHE earned. She shouldn’t have to spend the rest of her life paying for her ex-baby daddy’s luxuries. Just like I don’t think men should have to spend the rest of their life paying for their ex-wives’ luxuries, when they are fully able to work and provide for themselves.
Agree. She certainly has issues but he’s a freeloader. Modeling is the only occupation on the face of the earth?
She wanted his dreamy DNA for a baby but she should have done more due diligence.
I think it is impossible from our perspective to determine if he is “choosing” to not be employed, or if he just isn’t finding work.
Really. People are so blinded by their love of the Angel Gabriel that they won’t even countenance the notion that he could be an imperfect man. Halle Berry most DEFINITELY has issues and throws gas on the fire, but at some point you have to hit event horizon and say that it’s really stupid for him to spend 900 dollars a month on on clothes and to spend how many hundreds of dollars a month on the child’s clothes and how many hundreds of dollars on fitness. You want fitness? Do what I do and go the park. Man Alive, she ABSOLUTELY deserves criticism, but this guy…I think he can get petty dramatic and knows that he’s the one getting the sympathy and he’s working it. Sexism? People would tear into some of these behaviours if he were a woman. Melissa and Tammy, anyone?
I don’t think the info is accurate, as they both share custody. In California the custodial parent are not required to put an accounting to the court or anyone on child support. My understanding is they have joint custody. Most likely this was an expenditure account that was used in the one of the many court cases Halle filed. I think I want to see her expenses. He could be making plenty of money for all we know, maybe not Halle money but money. I just find this odd as it is almost never asked for, even in the most egregious cases, and especially with joint custody.
Pepsi, I don’t know if people’s opinions have much to do with blind allegiance to “Angel Gabriel”, so much as they don’t trust Halle’s camp. She has accused him of so much, and none of it has impressed the judges that are reviewing it. It’s a perfect example of the old tale about “crying wolf”.
Yeah I’m not understanding her bitterness. You are supposedly happily married with a new miracle baby. Your net worth is somewhere between 60 to 70 million. What you’re paying in child support is a drop in the bucket. She just can’t help sticking it to Gabriel. She’d rather pay lawyers instead of peacefully co-parenting. She has done every low down thing she can do to hurt this man and drag his name. I don’t get it.
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Me neither. I think she’s doing this so she gets more time with Nahla whilw he will have to work a low paying job that will suck loads of time.
This girls is enjoying her lifestyle on one side and Halle wants her to feel the difference whe she goes with her father.
Does she want Olivier or the nanny to care and educate Nahla when she is working, instead of her own father?
She is rich enough to be this picky, it is not. aBout money it is power.
I’m on this team, with you guys!
Perfect analysis of what rings so wrong about this whole thing. Focus on the baby and the new husband for a while. The current custody/payment schedule for Nahla was only set a few months ago. Where is this crazy bitterness coming from? And why is the focus on being hateful?
This.
Besides, having to deal with Halle’s ongoing underhanded tactics is a full-time job and expensive to boot. Having to stand up for himself against her relentless smear campaign, dealing with her bid to move Nahla to France, being assaulted by her current partner, and, and, and…frankly, I think Gabriel deserves MORE money.
I cannot wait for her marriage to Olivier to hit the skids. The fallout will be EPIC.
At the start of Halle Berry’s career, she bilked her then dentist boyfriend out of 80,000 bucks for cosmetic surgery and NEVER paid it back to him. She left the guy heartbroken.
Can’t say I feel sorry for this woman. I will buy a copy of Nahla’s version of ‘Mommie Dearest’
@Ennie, +1000000000 exactly my thoughts
You forgot vile. Vile, vindictive beyotch.
I loathe him for not helping to support his daughter.I have being saying it for years that he is a jerk .Since he assaulted the Nanny. Nahla will get a job before this guy.People on CB despise Halle so they excuse the fact that he doesn’t work.Nahla is in school seven hours a day and she has a nanny.Why can’t he get a job? Too Pretty?
Except he didn’t assault the Nanny. There was no evidence this incident ever took place. The judge must have believed the Nanny, who was on Halle’s payroll, wasn’t being forthright with her testimony.
Money isn’t the only way a father supports his daughter.
Emotional support. Love and affection from one of people who brought you into the world. Spending time together. Fun activities, and learning experiences. Childhood is the foundation of a healthy life, and Nahla’s memories will have her father in them.
In fact, look at all the “poor little rich girls” who grew up with all the money in the world, but without time and attention from their father’s? Paris Hilton is a good example. That daughter of Wayne Gretzky’s would be another.
Simply by refusing to give up, by refusing to lay down and let Halle cut him out of his daughter’s life, Gabriel is supporting Nahla.
Exactly, Juliette.
I am a bit bias because I saw Gabe and Nahla in the grocery store. I didn’t realize it at first, but as I was trying to find my special kind of canned tomato, I could tell there was a loving father/daughter team off to my left by the way they were interacting. Then a few moments later, I looked up to leave and there was Nahla staring at me while her dad grabbed some olive oil.
They seemed to get along really well. It is hard for me to think of him as this villain, knowing that he treats his daughter so well. Also, looking for employment doesn’t mean you will automatically be employed. Its an assumption to say he isn’t trying in that area.
Do you know for a fact he doesn’t work? You only have Halle’s side and therefore it is biased.
I am pretty sure I saw him about a month ago on a flight from Lax to Toronto. He looks way taller and skinnier in person, and I could tell by the way he carried himself that he had some kind of theatre or acting experience, great posture, great shoes, really nice brown leather messenger bag, clothing was casual but immaculate (yep, I have a good memory). I kept wondering who he was, because I am always looking for celebrities at LAX. Anyway, when he took off his sunglasses, BINGO, Gabe. If it wasn’t him, dead ringer. No Nahla, she is actually more recognizable than him.
Exactly. I’m so tired of her.
I too loathe her. This whole thing is so disgusting. She really sucks.
Hope he gets every penny he can out of that woman. The only one who matters is the child and not MZ Halle. Sock it away, Gabriel, she can more than afford it.
Why does everyone forgot to bring up HER HIT AND RUN! She ran over a person and took off and didn’t even call 911 anonymously to report it! She litterally left them for dead. That’s how little she thinks of us ‘peasants’. I’ve hated her ever since I learned of that. How cold and callous to just flee the scene. Like I said, didn’t even call it in anonymously…
I am so over his woe is me act. He is just as much of a drama queen as halle. No wonder they got together.
He needs to find a new career and make some money for himself.
He is not a big model anymore and that was already happening before he got in a fight with martinez. Its absurd that she is paying for his maintenance.
But male models with a sort of well known name (even if its connected to Halle in drama) could still work forever in some way….
I think he should find a job yes, he is still goodlooking and could get bookings if he pushed Im sure….but that probably wouldnt change the courts mind of what Halle should pay.
I would protest paying his gym and clothing fees though. I can see issue with that.
Agreed. I dont know why people are so fixated on only having one villain in this tale. Halle can be vindictive but this guy is a freeloader. And as for the constant claims that he is suffering sexist attitude, just imagine if a woman was billing her “fitness” to her child support claim. I think he has actually benefited from all the hand-wringing over whether we are being egalitarian.
Seriously, what woman on this site would get a pass for stating her own clothing expenses in her child support claim?
but you’re taking halle’s lawyers word for it. i mean, what is he supposed to do? put the child support in a separate account and split the Starbucks tab with his daughter so only her portion comes out of the child support money? how can they prove this when odds are ALL his money goes in one main checking account? how do they know if it’s his money or her money? how do you separate it? even if he’s not working, he can still have money coming in. just like a woman receiving child support, it goes it in one account and the parent and the child’s expenses get mixed together. why are people automatically taking halle’s word as truth? the truth is probably in the middle? also, didn’t halle throw a shitfit before when Gabe tried to work, saying he was going to be away from his daughter?
I agree!! For many people the Halle-hate is so strong that they absolve everything this man does!
He is another K-Fed, who lives off of his wealthier baby momma. At least K-Fed has PRIMARY custody to justify the hefty child support payments (even thought much of the money is funneled towards his own expenses and financially supporting his other spawn..)
Aubrey COULD work but prefers taking the easier path of cashing Halle’s checks. We all KNOW she has more money but that’s not the point! Her criticism is that he doesn’t try at all, whereas she actually works for her paychecks!
Linda Evangelista billed mommy support including clothing, fitness, facials etc to her baby daddy on the grounds that she is a model who needs to maintain her physical being [not to mention the cost of the 24/7 nannies] and many people supported her claim.
For the record, Linda finally got round to asking for support [child or otherwise] when her contracts were coming to an end and she’d been dumped by another billionaire.
If Aubry is a bum, then so is Linda.
LAK. Correct and if you check, you will find that LInda was ripped a new one for it. We (humanity) hates freeloaders. The only sympathy she got was based around her fight to get the father to set up a Trust similar to his other kids. Nobody likes a bum. Be they an aging female or male model
Snowflake. Using child support to pay for your own fancy health insurance is nowhere near the same as splitting a restaurant bill and you know it.
Yeah, his ‘fitness’ expenses seem like a waste going by the looks of him in the last few years. Dude aged badly. He peaked during the Halle years and a bit after that. Then prettier male models came along too. If he took care of himself better he would still be in demand.
That said, this is what many female models do though, find a European ATM when they hit 35 and get a baby. The difference is that a lot of them (men) don’t give a crap about the child whereas Aubry does. They wanted to have a child and I don’t see him as a bum but I do think he should do something with his life besides living off Halle’s money. I can’t imagine a child being proud of a father like that.
As a celeb, Halle should’ve known she needed to marry/procreate with an equal, never somebody ‘below’ you in the celeb order!
EDIT: personal expenses that don’t benefit the child are unnecessary. NAGL
@Leah, who wrote: “He needs to find a new career and make some money for himself.
He is not a big model anymore and that was already happening before he got in a fight with martinez. Its absurd that she is paying for his maintenance.”
I totally agree. Not only is Gabriel living off of Halle’s money, he’s wining and dining women (who was that Honey with him and Nahla in the last Child Support article here?) on ‘her’ dime as well.
Most women who get child support from their ex’s have to pay everything for their kids, from medical bills, school needs (supplies and extra curricular activities), dues, etc. Halle takes care of all of that.
Yep! He doesn’t have primary custody, so his Ex is already paying most of the kid’s expenses!
He doesn’t have a “woe is me” act. The man is trying to be a loving, caring, dad who is THERE for his kid. It’s weird that you would buy into Halle’s version of events when it is well-known that the bish is straight up certifiable. You can’t believe a word that comes from her camp!
Gabriel should get an agent and try acting. He could probably have a career like Joe ManJello. That dude can’t act at all but look where he got solely on looks. Gabriel is gorgeous and would look good in a movie.
@Sugar, who wrote: “He doesn’t have a “woe is me” act. The man is trying to be a loving, caring, dad who is THERE for his kid. It’s weird that you would buy into Halle’s version of events when it is well-known that the bish is straight up certifiable. You can’t believe a word that comes from her camp!”
Gabriel can be a loving, caring dad without sponging off of Halle. He doesn’t need $16,000 a month in order to be a ‘loving, caring’ dad. I would be different if he and Halle split Nahla care 50/50, but they don’t. Halle foots the bill for Nahla’s care, clothes, etc.
And no one has to ‘buy into Halle’s ‘version’ of events’ to see that Gabriel is enjoying his free ride off of Halle’s dime.
Child support isn’t about how much a child needs for the basics. It’s about maintaining a consistent level in regards to lifestyle as the child splits time with the parent. It’s so a child isn’t eating caviar at mom’s house and then eating beans out of a can at dad’s house. That’s it. And if there’s anyone to “blame” for this drama, it would be Halle. She kicked off all of this nonsense when she ran to court complaining that his modest apartment wasn’t good enough for her child. Gabe essentially said “put your money where your mouth is”.
Come on models need to travel a lot to get job. And now imagine that Gabriel is leaving Nahla for few weeks to work. We all know that in Halles opinion it would be like – he abandoned his own child, he is bad father, he doesn’t have time for child. It’s a vicious circle. He doesn’t work much and take care of his child – he is the bad guy, he works and leaves Nyala – he is the bad guy. BTW he deserves every penny only because he has to deal with that psychotic by#ch. Team Gabriel.
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This argument does not hold water. He’s 39 which is ancient in even male modeling.
Time for him to figure out a new career path! He would have to do so even if he never got involved with Halle!
Yup. As soon as he missed visitation for a job, Halle would drag him back to court to dissolve the 50/50 custody arrangement.
And if he got a regular, full-time job, his earnings would be so vastly different from hers, I doubt it would make much difference in the child support calculations.
Grayson, I think they share custody 50/50.
You make an excellent point. Most of the people who criticize Gabriel are assuming Halle is stable and rational. Mean, but rational. However, I think her past actions have shown she is not rational and she is quite vindictive.
I do believe Gabriel could probably work more but honestly we have no idea how much he is or isn’t working. I do believe though that he has to choose his actions very carefully or Halle will exploit whatever he does to her advantage, not hesitating to lie or exaggerate to support her claims.
I also think it takes a pretty crafty and cunning person to come out on top when dealing with Halle and I just don’t think he is that guy. So he comes off looking like a slacker when he probably is doing his best just to tread water with her. I know longer underestimate the level of deception Halle will stoop to. Even now I see people quoting her past lies as evidence against Gabriel. The nanny. The fight. Those have already been proven as lies and provocation on Halle’s part. Not Gabriel.
Male models with a name can work forever. It may not be high visibility work but they work.
I still think Halle should pay support…she was the main breadwinner….mu only issue is his gym bills and clothing.
I don’t get why Halle should be paying for any expenses not related to Nahla. I feel you could argue the car expenses being for Nahla, since he needs to to be able to transport her, but $1,975 a month is excessive. Clothes and fitness for her ex, no. Child support is supposed to be for the kid, not for the father to spend $11,280 a year on clothes.
Where is the proof that he paid for those things with the child support money? All you have is Halle’s lawyer’s version of events. None of knows what is really going on here, but I have a lot of difficulty believing a woman who refused to put the biological father’s name on the birth certificate. All of this started because she refused to put his name on the certificate, followed by her claiming he didn’t live in a safe-enough place for their daughter to stay – so the judge upped her payments so Aubry could live in a safer place.
I don’t see how one can call him a “drama queen” when we haven’t really heard his side in all of this. Its Halle’s lawyers that are making grand statements and accusations.
Halle is the Drama Queen and a Mean Vindictive Queen at that.
She needs to suck it up. As the higher-earning partner throughout the relationship, he traveled with her rather than pursue his own work so there’d be a parent with the kid when she was on sets. Also, if Ms. B, her ex and her current think Nahla isn’t going, at some point, to go out on the ‘net, find all this slag and call them on it, they are definitely living in some sort of fantasy world. Just chalk it up to the cost of doing business, Halle, and count the days until Nahla turns 18. And Gabriel – figure out some sort of career path that will allow you to support yourself once you’re not a 50-percent parent of a kid whose mother has more earning power than you do. Amy out.
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hahah I’m with you Amy 🙂
Yup…..Male actors in Hollywood have been doing this for ages…Halle made her bed.
Totally agree.
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Just imagine you read things like the “fight” between Martinez and Aubry online. Poor kid.
I agree- these are the choices she made and now must live with. Child-support is based on her income, and if he has 50% custody, I can’t really understand the argument to reduce it. That said he does need to find some job for when he’s not in charge of their daughter, and to pay for whatever he wants in his own life.
I guess I am partial to a Canadian fellow:-) he grew up in an orphanage and family means the world to him based on the very few tidbits he ever gave the media. She tried repeatedly to take Nahla away with all sorts of stories and now that her attempts to move the child away to France have failed she is trying this. Well, he could probably move back home to Montreal and find work/do something else non-model related (which by the way he almost gave up to be her partner while together). Would that please Halle? He would not need bodyguards and other stuff in laid back Montreal, housing is way cheaper etc. as for the expense allocation, as many others have pointed out, all we have is her lawyers’ statement. He has been a class act throughout the lawsuit she dragged on and on, which surely must have been very costly for him. A lesser man would have given up, taken a good bye check, leaving his daughter with her crazy mom and never looking back. For Halle paying lawyers is a drop in the bucket, not so for Gabriel. At the very least he could have sold tabloid stories for a quick buck. As far as I know he never did. Could he work in another field in Hollywood? No idea, but again as others have mentioned, we don’t know what he does, what work he is looking for and he needs to be available 50% of the time for Nahla. Because if he is not, guess what, he is a bad dad, and he will be used again.
Finally, whether we like it or not and irrespective of gender, support payments are a combination of need and income earned by the higher wage parent. Lots of examples from rappers to actors to business tycoons, take your pick. The fact that Halle is likely spending more on attorneys than the savings in child support she could get tells me it is just another crazy manoeuvre on her part. And why is he criticized for dating? Should he just be forever single now? Halle got married, had another baby, and he should not even date?
They (yes, *they*, because she was behind it and inspired it, imo) battered the sh*t out of Gabriel because he balked at them taking his daughter away to France. Halle isn’t accustomed to any man fighting her monstrous will. Every time she dumps a man, she savages his reputation in the press with her nasty accusations. Maybe she IS paying him a lot in order to make their two lifestyles equivalent for Nahla’s sake, but male celebs are paying thru the nose every day for exactly the same reason, only no one says jack about it because men are *supposed* to pay thru the nose, and women *aren’t.* I can hardly wait to see what Halle says about Olivier when she dumps him.
Right. Happens to men all the time. She’s the higher earner, and that was the agreement. Too bad, so sad. Pay up.
This. Regardless of your feelings on the two, this is how child support works. The courts base it on their earnings, and try to level the field for the child’s benefit.
She’s not the only person in the world paying like this. Look how many women became SAH celeb moms to be able to care for their kids and travel for the father’s career. It’s rare to hear them called out for that because they’re doing what the can for their children – even when it’s a joint custody thing.
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Furthermore, I’d wager he’s scared to death of taking any jobs which would require him to travel. Can you imagine the case Halle would make if he “were no longer available for scheduled visits”? He can’t win, IMO.
Yup, she needs tobasically just suck it up and pay, there aremale actors , directors,and studio heads, etc, all over Hollywood paying exwives,ex baby mamma’s bills, so suck it up , Halle you made your bed.
Is he not gonna be working for the next 15 years because he is scared of leaving LA because the villain Halle will use it against him (according to posters here). This sounds a bit over the top.
Doesn’t he have any ambitions or anything he wants to do with his life?
He is handsome man and at 39 he could try acting or working behind the scenes in fashion.
The model Helena Christensen took up photographing after she got older, she didn’t have to i am sure she has enough money but obviously she wanted to have a vocation. Her ex Norman Reedus has a job as an actor, he was nowhere near as successful as her when they separated but i never heard that she has to pay him this much money because they have a child together.
For me Gabriel falls into the same category as females who live of a wealthy ex partner and he lacks integrity and pride if he can’t provide for himself.
What surprises me is that people buy the assumption that he can’t work because he isn’t getting any modelling jobs and that somehow this is all halles fault. what do other people who can’t get work do? they look for work in a different field, they get a new education and show some initiative. particularly people who have the responsibility of being a parent.
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Agree on all points. And she will keep trying to make Gabriel miserable because she’s mad he didn’t just lay down and let her move to France.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Cosign, Lahdidah.
Boo-f’n-hoo, Halle — you are just lucky Gabriel didn’t file a civil suit against Olivier. Suck it up and deal with the consequences of your decisions.
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My thought exactly, The Other Katherine, and I really wish he HAD sued, since she was pretty clearly complicit in that whole nasty event. But he’s a more decent person than her (or, I guess, me), and he chose not to exacerbate an already-bad situation, no doubt for Nahla’s sake.
I know Halle is hated but I have to agree with her. Regardless gender, child support should be for the child not for the parent’s personal use. If Gabriel wants support, he should file a palimony suit or the equivalent. If he was out of work for six months because of injuries, why wasn’t he working when healed? Although modeling, especially for men, is strike while the iron is hot type of profession. He may have missed his time.
But it’s not just about the needs of the child, it’s also to ensure a similar lifestyle the kid is experiencing with the richer parent. Conveniently TMZ doesn’t list the costs of his house or the nannys he was forced to hire.
That shouldn’t include his clothes or similar expenses. Housing, child care, and even the car can be explained as how they are used for Nahla. But thousands of dollars in clothing every year for Aubry is not for Nahla.
Halle pays for the nannies,that was mentioned years ago.When people were saying the nanny only said she was pushed because Halle pays her salary.Also he hasn’t worked in years so why would he need nannies for a child in school full time.He needs to get a job.He can do catalog modeling in LA.
well if tmz and halle say it, it must be true! not!
i’ve seen women on here justifying a stay at home mom getting 10k a month, having a nanny and housekeeper! gabe’s expenses don’t seem that outrageous to me. women get child support, goes in their account, and they pay all bills out of that account. so there is always going to be some child support going for all expenses not just the kids. i’ve never heard of anyone having a separate account for child support and only the kid’s expenses.
sounds to me like he said or did something she didn’t like, so now he’s got hell to pay! again! she and tmz ought to be ashamed of themselves
I was watching the football game the evening the Thanksgiving beat down occurred. So I remember well that within HOURS of the incident, TMZ had every police record and every account from Halle’s friends and employees about what “happened”. This is just the latest of her lawyer’s claims and what she (once again) is leaking to the tabs. Didn’t all the legal stuff start ‘cuz she didn’t put his name on the birth certificate even though they’d been together for years and for a while after the child was born too? When she was pregnant, Halle went on and on about Aubrey being the greatest man she’d ever known. So yeah, he had to take her to court over custody and that’s when the sky fell and he became a violent, racist, greedy, lunatic. And didn’t the money stuff begin because SHE took him to court over a gate at his house, saying he didn’t have the funds to maintain a property up to her standards for their daughter. And speaking of him being a violent, racist, greedy, lunatic, she’s taken him to court several times with allegations linked to those claims. They’ve been dismissed each and every time. Remember the claim that he pushed a nanny while she was holding Nahla because she, the nanny Halle pays, was confronting him, the father, about why Nahla, a pre-schooler, was missing school? Didn’t the Thanksgiving incident take place days after the moving to France thing got the kibosh? Yeah, I’m sure it was Aubry who picked that fight, (and pleaded with the police to look at the security tapes, not knowing that Berry had recently had them relocated), just like TMZ reported. Halle’s lost every single time with this guy. But the money and time lost and the hits to his reputation probably hurt a wee bit. Secondly, if a gig came up during his time with Nahla, and he reached out for Halle’s help, gee, I wonder what the next lawsuit would be based on. Maybe, “his daughter is not a priority for him and he dumps her off at a moment’s notice for a paycheck”. And just look around, or go to any website or watch a gossip show when this comes up. Aubry is thrown in like he is equally responsible for the craziness. His name is mud. Do people really not get how a LA based male model (hard with a short lifespan anyhow), who doesn’t have the luxury to take any gig that comes his way, with limited funds, a PR problem and a powerful ex, may have trouble finding work? That is when he isn’t in a courtroom or consulting his lawyer over the latest suit he has coming at him.
a very good resumé of the situation. You just listed all the reason, minus one “because that’s the law, suck it” I’m team Aubry.
Excellent summation and the reason why I’m still Team Aubry.
yup. All excellent points.
+ a million!
Everything you’ve said is exactly what I’ve read over the years…..
And on the last post that was about Gabriel Aubrey (haha, his last name is my name), I looked it up–he’s had 2-3 modeling jobs a year since he and Halle split. And there was some thing on wiki about him putting out a CD with someone, and having a restaurant. He’s not talking. So what we have is Halle’s point of view. Which is clearly biased.
And I do think a lot of the ‘hate’ stems from the fact that he is a man. From what I’ve read, he gave up a lot of work to be with Halle and Nahla. Traveled with them, while he and Halle were together, and then cut back on his work when Halle was trying to say that he wasn’t fit to be a parent because he was away too often. And he CLEARLY makes a lot less money than Halle does (probably a good living for any normal person), so she was ALWAYS going to have to pay child support.
We’re only getting Halle’s side of the story – she’s making it sound as if he has NO income of his own and all of his expenses (as well as Nahla’s) are being paid by the child support. He may very well have some well-paid modelling jobs as well as investments and other sources of income. We just don’t know (and I doubt that TMZ is about to enlighten us).
Why on earth does he need $1,100 a month for furniture and electronics?
Also, both sides are being ridiculous. He needs to get a job, and she is the higher earner so she needs to recognize that there are guidelines to follow for what she will pay. Also, maybe next time she’ll think twice before allowing her douchebag husband to beat the crap out of her ex – it undoubtedly has cost him in a career where he coudn’t work for several months while he healed and “out of sight is out of mind.”
yep
That $1,100 a month may have been for a specific month. For example, perhaps Halle got the little girl a bigger bed and tv for her home and then Gabriel made the same upgrades at her bedroom/playroom at his house.
These are general categories, to a certain extend. Electronics could very well include security systems and monitoring. Equipment isn’t cheap nor is safety.
These are general categories, to a certain extent. Electronics could very well include security systems and monitoring. Equipment isn’t cheap nor is safety.
+1
If the fight never happened, he still wouldn’t be working. let’s be serious. male or female, get a damn job. anyone receiving 16k per month has no incentive to work and now he has a convenient excuse. is he unable to fold sweaters? retailers are hiring.
Agreed. Modeling has a short shelf life.
He could get a job that requires no travel by working in a different industry. Doesn’t he have any other skills? What did he major in college? His lack of imagination sounds facetious..
He never had the chance to go to college – he spent his childhood and teen years in various foster homes, and foster kids are on their own as soon as they turn 18.
So maybe he should use some of his 16K a month and go to college now.
LNG, then Halle would go after him for using that money for himself not Nahla. The money is awarded by the judge based on living expenses. The lower-earning parent has to be able to give a roughly-equivalent lifestyle to the child – so the wealthier parent (Halle) cannot use money to alienate Nahla from her father.
Yeah. Halle Berry has certainly given the man a world of trouble, but, dude, are you too good for Everest College?
Halle MADE HER BED, when she got involved with Gabriel. He was a model and unless he’s getting booked a lot these days, his earnings will have dropped, but yes he could still get a job, but that might still not change the courts mind of what she has to pay him.
But….
I wonder if Halle is making the same kind of money as she did when she first met Gabriel. She was just off of an Academy Award win and getting top movie dollars for films. I’ll bet her peeps would never admit it, but her earnings have probably taken a drastic cut. She’s not exactly box office or getting top films. She has the tv show and probably made millions on that and her cosmetic contract has always been income earner for her. I’m sure she has Millions amassed from all her movies, endorsements and various work over the years, but maybe she’s concerned because her earning power has decreased a bit, while she’s still paying Gabriel the same. But as they say Halle MADE HER BED with this guy, so like male film stars she is paying.
Male actors pay their babies mama’s huge sums, so the courts probably won’t see it as different with Halle paying Gabriel.
I can see her protesting his fitness fees and clothing …..why should she pay for his gym or his clothes?
But alas She made her bed, like many a male actor in Hollywood.
P.S. I wonder how much Olivier Martinez is making these days? I saw him on episodes of tv show REVENGE, he must be hard up for work, going to tv night time ABC Soapdrama?
They both sound awful, don’t they? But then, I think most exes arguing over maintenance and custody sound awful. It’s the nature of the beast.
As you say, the law is the law and this is how it works. It’s not perfect but there isn’t a perfect solution. Insofar as I see it, if you’ve had kids and you split up with your partner, you just have to suck it up and pay up even if the system isn’t perfect. The kids are more important than (allegedly) lazy ex-partners.
She really ought to be ashamed of herself. Imagine washing your dirty linen in public like this, all to get revenge on an ex. It can’t be for money, the amounts involved are nothing to her. There’s something terribly unseemly in having a baby with a partner and then refusing to support the consequences of your decision when the relationship turns sour. And I do think the child and her father should live in the style to which the child is accustomed – it’s hard enough to split life between two homes without splitting it between two lifestyles as well.
Halle with all her fighting, airing dirty laundry has become such a turnoff in the last few years, IMO She’s still beautiful, but all her drama has tainted her, I just find her so unlikeanle at times.
Just when it goes quiet, then more fighting and pr campaign against the ex, couldnt things be done quietly in her life? Does she have to fight every battle with her ex in public?
Maybe she is paying for Oliver Martinez too now , I saw him on aepisode of REVENGE and he looked awful.
Is his career doing well? He looks like crap.
I could imagine that companies don’t want to use Aubry as their model because it might associate their brand/product with this whole mess. As a model esp. with some sort of well-known name you sell an image. And his image is basically in the toilet, thanks to everyone who is involved.
He has some sympathy too after the beatdown.
Halle has pr people but her image even though she will always get work is not really great lately either.
She sounds horrible. IMO
As someone who’s mother did not always use child support for it’s intended purpose anyway, I totally get where she’s coming from. My mother didn’t work, had re-married and had two more children with my stepdad a few years after she divorced my dad. Now, don’t get me wrong, my dad was an abusive scumbag. I understand she probably wanted to stick it to him for a little bit. But cigarettes, nights out, and other adult activities is not what child support was meant for. Very little of it was spent on my sister and I. We were given the bare minimum.
But here’s where I can understand where Halle’s ex is coming from: once the bitterness wore down my mom agreed to go to court to reduce his payments with the understanding that he would spend the money on us himself (so he would take us school clothes shopping, and pick up some school supplies, foot the bill for some after school activities, etc.) Well guess what didn’t happen? The money vanished into new trucks, new ATVs, martial arts classes and the like.
So here’s the TL;DR- crappy parents are always going to put themselves and their priorities first, and child support itself seldom makes as much of a difference to a child as how that money is spent. So if Gabriel is spending over half of his payments on himself and not things that benefit both him and Nahla (rent, electric, car payments, and gas would fall into this category) I totally get where Halle is coming from. But is she going to use the money she gets back for her daughter’s benefit? Or is she simply using the reduced payments as a way to get back at her ex? I don’t know you guys, I think they’re both in the wrong here. Nahla and her well-being doesn’t seem to be at the forefront of this conversation, and that’s troubling.
Well put! I’m looking at these expenses and Halle should not be paying for his fitness and car and his clothes. And I’m assuming Halle pays for Nahla’s school, insurance and other major bills …what the heck does this guy need all this money for? $3,800 is more than enough to him to pay for food and clothing and basics for Nahla since Halle covers all the major financials.
Again, where is the proof that Aubry uses the child support money for those things? Because TMZ and Berry’s lawyer says he does?
I just feel so bad for their child. She’s caught in this middle of this nasty feud and it just seems neverending. It’s just very sad.
I agree
I don’t feel sorry for her, she shouldn’t date a man that can’t actually provide for himself. So many women do the same thing, just live off of there child support or gets way more than they actually need. Next time she should date a man that’s just as wealthy as her and she wouldn’t have to go through this mess.
I used to be a Halle fan/supporter until things went downhill with her and Gabriel and she showed her true colors as a vindictive, spiteful, hateful person. Now I am firmly in Gabriel’s corner. He’s obviously a good father to their little girl and this woman has put him through absolute hell when all he wants is to be a part of his daughter’s life. I think she should continue to pay the child support as ordered and be happy her ex isn’t a deadbeat. As so many others have already said, if the roles were reversed this would not even be argued at all.
+1 agree. She lost me on that street battering to the ex, as she watched with her daughter close by.
Lost all respect for this woman after that.
Even though her peeps won’t say it, I think Halle is also not making the same kind of money she did a few years ago. But YES she still should pay her baby daddy, since Male actor’s are made to pay In Hollywood all the time.
Halle made her bed.
Here’s the thing. This is all coming from Halle. We don’t know if he is working or not. Child support is based on the income of both parents and is reviewed periodically. Didn’t she just have it cut recently? Yes he should get a job but again we don’t know if he is trying to get one or not.
HE submitted the list of his expenses to the court.
Also if HE was working, there would be easy proof (ahem, W-2 forms..) for him to show the courts. He has NOT done this..
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So – if he submitted them to the courts, and the COURTS approved them – I’m not sure what your argument is. They’ve obviously been approved at some point for this number to have been agreed upon.
Greyson, don’t know if you have dealt with child support or not. I have with my daughter and her son and the father of her son. When you are dealing with child support you have to list all your expenses along with all your income. I’m sure this is not all his expenses. My point is that we are seeing this from her side and the expenses that have been given here are his personal expenses and none that are exclusive to Nahla. We don’t know if he has had any income because her camp has chosen to publish only that which is detrimental to him. I’m trying to be a voice of reason (as well as several other commenters) and say there is more to this financially than we are being told. I never once said he didn’t have any responsibility in contributing toward her needs. What I said is that from this article we don’t know how much he contributes as the article is one sided.
@swack
It thought it was him that claims he can’t get work anymore because of the fight with Martinez. He says he has only had 3 jobs since then, so i think we have an idea of his job situation too.
Erinn, this spending is NOT approved thats why Halle is relying on it to establish an abuse of the system.
Well, the judges have seen through her bullshit so far so hopefully that will continue. I think Halle realizes that she can only buy her children’s love, which is why she wants to be the rich parent and Gabriel the poor parent. I’m anxiously waiting for the epic showdown when Halle and Olivier split.
he could still have income coming in from other sources. doesnt he own a restaurant/bar? plus i imagine all his income/expenses are coming out of the same account. i guess he needs to split the check when he and nahla go to starbucks, pull hers out of the child support, his out of his money. lol. if he uses the same account to pay for everything, there is no way for there NOT to be overlap unless he puts his money In another account and pays for his expenses out of one account, and puts the child support in another account and pays separately for nahla.
halle is being ridiculous. if halle was a guy bitching about this shizz, people would tell him to stfu. halle needs to be glad that her baby has a daddy that loves her. gabe can’t win no matter what he does. if he were to work more, halle would try and go for custody, claiming he was away too much. tmz does not have all the details, just what halle fed them
Snowflake, it’s Olivier who co-owns Villa Azul, a restaurant in South Beach. It opened in February or March 2012. By Thanksgiving of that year, county inspectors had hit it with numerous code violations. I’ve not heard any more about the restaurant–good, bad, or indifferent. I just know it’s competing in South Beach, and that area has a gazillion restaurants and cafes.
This is from Wiki
Aubry owned a restaurant called Cafe Fuego, located in the East Village of Manhattan on trendy St. Mark’s Place. In 2008, he released an album Cafe Fuego Vol. 1, which he produced. He plays guitar on some of the tracks. The album was created to reflect the ambiance of the restaurant and has been described as “a delicate fusion of soulful sounds, highlighted with a world music flair, bossa-nova grooves and inspired by Latin and Cuban roots.
i think Gabriel would be smart to use this time to train for a different career. when Nahla turns 18, child support will be over. he needs to plan now for a way to support himself.
If Halle hadn’t drug this man to court every 6 months since they split, I might’ve actually been on her side.
Yup and she makes it a public PR campaign.
He deserves to be paid the max because he has to deal with Halle’s crazy!
Ahhhh when love goes so horribly terribly wrong. I remember when she got preggers with Nahla and she talked about how it was deliberate and she wanted a kid so bad and she and Gabriel were such a great match and …….
I believe that if he were the ex-wife of a wealthy, male movie star NO ONE would call his child support payments “free-loading”. In fact, Halle would probably be paying alimony as well. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Team Gabe.
I can’t stand whiners.
Here is my problem isn’t she in the rears by months and thousands of dollars? Wasn’t the original amount increased because she said Aubrey wasn’t able to raise Nahla in the environment she was used to. That was her contention for sole custody which she lost. For me and hopefully the judge to believe this isn’t just her trying to stick it at the Daddy, she needed to pay the amounts on time and then bring it to court, and then wait at least year before filing again. It has only been about six months, what has changed so much from the last time the judge decided on the amount?
This is why I don’t believe her and she should find a new attorney to give her some good advice, bet she loses.
I always thought that child support was intended to keep the child in a certain manner that is equal to the income level of both parents. Since Halle is the wealthier one, she’s the one paying the support. If she didn’t want to end up in this situation, perhaps she needs to only date/marry/have babies with men wealthier than she is. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the guy made more money than she did? Does anyone really think she would take a few thousands a month and cover all extra expenses herself? Yeah, right. As to her complaint that it’s hard to juggle two kids and work, did anyone force her to have her second child or to take the work she does? Or is she supporting this current husband too? I don’t feel bad for her. She chose this “deadbeat”. She had a baby with him. Gotta live with it! It seemed like he was the main caregiver for their daughter when they were together or am I remembering that incorrectly?
The money is supposed to be for the child, not for him to go the gym or buy vitamins or for a personal trainer or whatever he’s doing with that $740. It’s also not for him to buy $940 in clothing every month.
That’s on the assumption that he has no other source of income than the child support. Didn’t the court fix the current amount of support (based on both parents’ incomes) less than 6 months ago? What could possible have changed so drastically in a few short months that Halle is, once again, returning to court to change the amount of support?
Chrissy- yes, her father was her main caregiver before the split. He would take her on location to visit Halle on set. I’m sure that’s why he so strongly bonded with her. But that also means that he lost a lot of income in his prime earning years. He has always arranged his residence and work schedule so he could always be available fir his 50% of the time with Nahla and also deal with Halle dragging him into court frequently in her quest to erase him from his daughter’s life. Usually she accuses her exes of abuse, but that’s been a hard sell with this one since he has a history of gentleness rather than violence (as Halle herself repeatedly pointed out until she wanted to dispose of him). The accusation will be much easier with her son’s dad, because he has a long history of violence and a hot temper.
Halle is the only one leaking this crud to TMZ etc. I’ve really never heard her ex trying to drag her down, he just focuses on the important thing, maintaining his close relationship with his daughter. I don’t know why some people here are trying to paint both parents with the same brush. The situation really hasn’t been symmetrical.
It’s a shame that she hates her ex more than she loves her kid.
I might’ve been on her side if she hadn’t pulled so many dirty stunts trying to keep Gabriel out, I think she just doesn’t want to pay, she already went 6 months without paying, and she’s spending a ton in legal fees when it would be cheaper to suck it up and pay. I googled her net worth and supposedly it’s around 80 million, and she’ll earn more in the future, so 16k a month for the next 12 years is only a few million, that’s nothing to her! She’ll spend way more paying both of their legal fees. I think she’s just spiteful and wants to hurt him, he probably could work more, but women do this all the time and most of them are given a pass.
$16k a month is less than $3 million dollars over 15 years. They broke up when Nahla was about 3, right? That’s pennies and seems so trivial for her to fight about. In addition I read where his own net worth is in the neighborhood of about $5 million, not as much a Halle’s for sure, but he is not penniless. I’m sure he pays his own gym fees et al. This seems like pithy accusations from her side . I think she and her new hubby want him out of their lives, and can’t stand the fact that he is a father who wants to be present. As someone else said, she seems to not be able to understand the important role of a father in a child’s life, maybe because hers was absent.
+1000
That’s what I believe too, Halle can’t stand that Gabriel is in his daughter’s life and remains steadfastly in it. She thought all of her lawyer’s and calling him into Court would run him away.
This is how she has spent years of Nahla’s life so far, Fighting with Gabriel, you’d think she’d want some peace but Halle seems to like constant drama. She’s always fighting with her ex. If she and Olivier ever breakk there will be another big fight with him as an Ex.
Wow, I’ve seen a lot worse in terms of expenses for the parent in the position Aubry is in. This is the way it works and for Halle to word it as she has “healthy, active man…… wealthier mother” smacks of sexism. So, sorry Halle that’s exactly how it works. She’s already gamed the system being female – because I believe if a father had orchestrated a beat down of the mother of his child, they would not be enjoying a 50/50 custody agreement.
+1
I do believe if this were a story about a wealthy male fighting to slash child support for the mother of his child, the woman would seem more sympathetic than Gabriel is here. I think it’s a shame that because Gabriel want’s to actually father his child, Halle feels it’s necessary to diss him and cut support. As someone who has had issues with both my father and step father, Halle should really consider this a bit more. Nahala has an engaging and loving father as far as I can tell. That’s worth all the gold in the world.
Halle owes child support to the tune of several months, yes? The second definition of the word “deadbeat” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is as follows: a person who does not pay money that is owed. Halle is, according to the dictionary definition of the word, a deadbeat. That is not based on opinion, that is fact.
The judge ordered her to pay all the arrears of child support plus Gabriel’s legal fees at the same time he established the current amount of child support – less than six months ago. Yet here she is, once again trying to reduce the support. Can you imagine if Halle was a male multimillionaire movie star, refusing to pay child support for several months, having to be ordered to pay arrears, and repeatedly dragging the mother of his child into court to try to reduce the support payments? He would have zero sympathy, yet some commenters are saying that Gabriel is the deadbeat.
If she were a male, I believe this would be a career-ending fiasco. It has hurt her, but if genders were reversed, this behavior would be an absolute death blow.
Halle just needs to stop with this bull shit. Please girl you haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait til your French husband gets through with you. Gabe will look like a picinic.
Agreed. The gossip sites have mentioned from time to time that she and Olivier are on the rocks. I would think she’s anticipating the custody battle over their son and yet more child support to pay. And, unless there has been a Discovery motion filed, how would she know what Gabe spends money on? My ex knew how much I got, but not what I spent it on.
Olivier looks like he can be hell to deal with.
Even now her eyes always have a troubled look. I don’t think that’s a peaceful couple.
He dated kim Kardashian after Halle broke up with him….what would he do if Halle wasn’t there to pay for him? Or (God forbid) passed away? He would have to look for a job to be able to provide for his daughter.
I don’t even like Halle but that doesn’t mean he is in the right and I’d say the same if the genders were reversed.
The money is supposed to go to their child, not his electronics and gym membership, come on.
Maybe his electronics are for the household,,but I see your point on gym membership.
Still Halle should pay just like the men in Hollywpod have to pay for baby’s mama’s. She made her bed, so she just has to suck it up and pay what the court ordered.
He didn’t date Kim Kardashian as in date date. They were friends and went to a basketball game together once. And that is when Halle went nuts on him and started all this crap.
Yup Halle is leaking this.
Also Gabriel is allowed to date. No he didn’t date Kim, they were just friends, but he can date and guess what Halle will still have to pay child support.
How do we know the expenses leaked by Halle’s shills are actually being paid from child support, as opposed to simply being a list of Gabriel’s expenses that were submitted to the court to show where monies from his bank account are going? Most people (even rich ones) who receive child support deposit the funds into their main bank account that they use for household expenses — it’s not firewalled off into an account which is used only for child-related expenses. Gabriel probably has to provide information periodically to the court about expenses paid from the account that the child support goes into, to validate his claims about the amount of child support needed. That would mean that all kinds of household expenses would show up, including expenses for Gabriel himself. Just because Gabriel’s gym membership is being paid out of the same bank account, doesn’t mean Halle’s child support is paying for it.
Yeah–I don’t know anyone who puts CHILD SUPPORT into a separate account, and parcels out the money for child related things. My mom told me exactly what she did with the child support that she got from my sperm donor–she paid the bills, bought groceries, put gas in the car that I rode around in, and put some into a shared bank account for all of us kids. Child support was not the only $$ that my mom put into her bank.
I would feel differently about this if there wasn’t a full time nanny and 50/50 shared custody. People keep comparing this to when women ask men for child support. But in those cases the mother usually has the children for the vast majority of the time. People expect the woman to be the primary care-giver. Here though, they are sharing time with her equally, so aside from Halle providing the nanny and schooling and security, he should prob get off his butt and get a job.
The judge decided appropriate child support, not Halle. She thinks she has control when she doesn’t. He didn’t even ask for support until she tried to get full custody based on her claim that his more modest accommodations weren’t good enough for Nahla. The judge said fine, pay him support so he can afford far more expensive living quarters etc. Halle made her own bed lon this one.
And although she is free to travel, her constant picking at her ex means he has good reason to be very careful about going too far away too often. That had definitely affected his ability to make money as a model, and it’s a short lifetime for that line of work so it’s best to make loads of cash in your prime and save up. He shows no signs of bring a spendthrift, but he has definitely sacrificed prime income-earning years to take care of his daughter and fend off her crazy mother. Definitely if he were female, this would be quite acceptable. Children grow up fast and no parent should feel ashamed of being there for them during the relatively short time needed. I’m tired of hearing the “get a job” rant. He has jobs, and the most crucial one is raising that child and keeping crazy Halle from destroying her. Really, can you imagine what will happen the first time Nahle says no to her mom?!? Right now Halle can control her on her shift, but that won’t last.
If a male celebrity said this public ally about his ex, there would be a media maelstrom.
Her BS had made it much more difficult to focus his energy on his own personal goals I’m sure. I have a baby with a psycho and even without money to be litigious he drains me with his antics. I cut Gabe a break because he has out forth so much effort to be a great, available father despite all the crap he has to deal with. Surely she’s offered him money to just go away and he turned it down. I see the child support money as partly a stipend for withstanding Halle. Also, it’s true that CS is intended to allow the child to live in a manner she’s accustomed to at both homes so what’s the argument?
This is not about child support or money. Halle is using her daughter and the legal system to keep attacking a father who wants to be a father. Its about control, power and a lot of other ugly stuff. Halle’s true nature is so obvious now.
Shouldn’t she be concerned about her image because of the career she chose? Her PR people are doing a really bad job. It has been years of court battles.
Personally I dream that she would be concerned with the well being of her child and working together with the child’s father for the benefit of a healthly child. A child being carted between two parents is bad enough, than add in a live in second sperm donor.
Why didn’t she just get sperm donors and not have all this to deal with as it is obvious she wants to be the only parent and in complete and total control to the point of using physical violence.
+1
I think her career has taken a big hit, even if she has work coming. Public perception of her has changed greatly.
Halle ran to TMZ with this mess. If she were so concerned about her child and not public opinion, she would have kept this in court where it belonged. We are only getting her side of the expenses because that’s what she gave Harvey. The judge already increased her child support because she was in arrears. There’s no way in hell, he’s going to drop it down to $3K. She knows this, but if she can stick it to Gabriel once again, she will. As someone said above, she hates her ex more than she loves her daughter. She & Gabriel are tied financially until Nahla turns 19. She might as well stop all this foolishness, pay the support and concentrate on keeping Olivier happy and content. Because when that relationship explodes as we all know it will, it’s going to be ugly.
Especially since we aren’t hearing ANYTHING from Gabriel. Nothing. I even googled it the last time there was a post on them. He hasn’t talked trash, nor have any of his ‘friends’ or ‘unnamed sources close to Gabriel’ talked about Halle. He’s done all of his talking to the COURT, and it seems that they’re taking his side.
All I can think about when I read about this situation is how kids can be materialistic jackasses when they are going through divorce and custody issues – because of the instability and hurt they are experiencing but don’t know how to handle. Maybe Berry just really wants Nahla taken care of and for Aubry to pay his own way. Maybe she wants to stick it to her ex and make him wear last years fashion, how embarrassing. But maybe she realizes that Nahla will quickly see who gives her the most stuff, whose house is the coolest, who takes her to Fiji the most, etc. Possibly I’m being too suspicious of Berry’s motives. If so, it’s because of that atrocious leopard spot hat.
I don’t know how Halle can say she knows exactly how much Aubrey spends on what with the child support. I think it’s more just guesses. I think she just put everything he spends on himself as part of the child support instead of actually knowing from where the money came from. I also think that it’s dirty that Halle is making this public.
Did Aubrey sue Oliver for what the latter did? The assault? Did he sue for medical bills including therapy, physical and mental because of the viciousness of the assault? Did he sue Halle for possibly inciting the incident? Did he pursue a civil arrest of Oliver? Iirc, Aubrey didn’t drag on this incident for years, like he could have.
Halle sues this guy every year it seems. He has to spend a lot of his money on lawyers. I think that because of her pattern to hurt him financially like this, he should be made to pay for all his legal fees every time she sues for this or that. It’s ridiculous how many times she drags him to court. She’s a friggin nightmare.
I meant….. SHE should be made to pay for all HIS legal fees.
What I’ve learned: if you’re not interested in co-parenting, use an anonymous sperm donor.
Or just don’t have kids. I can’t imagine someone so selfish is a very good parent either.
$675 a month for clothes?? I don’t even spend that much on my kids’ clothes in a whole year!
Millionaires is a whole different game. Can you imagine how much does a Kardashian spends on clothes? Howmany jeans have to be slaughtered to fit Kim?
Lol! All those poor jeans. Will someone please think of the jean?!?
But even so… I can’t even imagine how I would spend that much on a child’s clothes. She must have a new outfit, head to toe, every day.
Well one thing is for sure that money sure isn’t for his daughter. The majority of the CHILD SUPPORT for their CHILD is going to him for HIMSELF.
I’m not giving Halle any props either but this guy needs to get a job. No one, man or woman should be able to just live off the other after the divorce, especially if the money is going mostly towards his lifestyle.
The story goes, Halle went for full custody because a home and security Gabriel could afford were not good enough for her daughter. The judge said okay, his home and level of security aren’t good enough for you, you can afford an appropriate amount of child support to rectify that. She has done all of this to herself.
The money is supposed to go for the child and this shows most of it is for HIS lifestyle. I don’t like a man or woman doing this kind of thing. Get up and get a job!
This isn’t about being pro him or Halle because I think both of them have played the game with the press and caused this whole situation.
This is about the child and the money seems to be about him not working and still living a rich lifestyle.
Especially since these 2 were never actually married. So, it seems to me that since they weren’t ever together long enough for him to be entitled to any sort of alimony situation, he’s abusing the system by living off child support, since he’s not entitled to alimony or palimony or whatever.
I don’t think he ever tried for palimony.
I think if Gabriel was working, not only she would request to reduce the child support, she would ask to have his one with Nahla reduced since he was not spending much time with her. This woman doesn’t stop.
I should send my parents to talk to her and maybe she would learn a thing or two about co-parenting. 🙂
Nobody says anything when male actors and sports figures have to pay tons of money to their ex’s for child support, why should this be any different? Gabriel doesn’t have to work if he doesn’t want to and can spend the support money however he wants. Not saying its right or wrong but that’s how the system is set up.
Exactly.
She comes off as this big ol’ ball of rage, entitlement and petty vindictiveness — it totally belies her outward beauty. Is there a painting of her in a some locked room somewhere?? Halle seems fatally attracted to form over substance, it’s entirely possible she’s had to pay $$ to a succession of ex-flames, but still. Show some class dear.
Yes this stuff appears all over the internet and soon her little girl will be able to google all sorts of info on her parents. Be glad you can pay that amount to him and have it not be a hardship. It’s holding onto that anger and hostility that is making her such a miserable person. Let it go… let it go…
All these Hollywoodactors are SO OVERPAID! She doesnt work hard at all!. Shes a joke, she works 3 Months a year and gets millions for it. She lives in huge mansions, got housekeepers and Nannys but she works hard and has to handle 2 kids? Give me a f…ing break! a Nurse works hard!
She doesnt deserve this amount of money so its great to see her loosing this money to the father of her daughter. Halle is living a life she doesnt deserve! But she complains about Aubry? Its only fair that Nahlas Daddy can live the same way with that undeserved money. He deserves this money because its a torture to have her as Nahlas Mom. I hope for the kids that Halles new marriage will last but we all know it wont and im very curious about that time and all the new dramz. Maybe Aubry and Olivier will team up then.
Believe or not, two of one of my elder brother’s ex wives did get together. They became friends even after the secnd wife knew all about his machinations to cheat on the child support to his eldest son.
Luckily for the second wife, she got a handsome new huband who became a father to her 4 children. The children even changed their lastnames, sadly for us (they live in the US), but my brother did deserve to lose his family, he cheated and dismissed his children, did shady things to cheat on the chid support.
Gabriel is clearly a good father, Halle is supporting her current flame, she earned herself paying tht child support, and now she is whining.
I think Halle should thank her lucky stars she has made millions, because IMO she’s not a good actress, she has her moments but she’s pretty average, but had a really good manager, who saw a void and knew how to market her in the 90’s.
Now her crazy is getting hard for her peeps to hide,
Does she still pay the girl she bashed her car into in her HIT and RUN accident? Halle shouldhave gone to jail for that, IMO or at least had a bigger sentence. She ran away from the scene of a crime.
Would’ve been better if they could’ve agreed on a one time upfront financial settlement, All this ongoing haggling over child support payments sounds freaking tedious for all concerned. When my ex and I split we got the finances done and dusted straight away to sever as many ties as we could.
If the gender roles were reversed, everyone would be calling Gabriel a gold-digging whore. Which is what he is. Based on the photos that accompany this story, it doesn’t look like his face is what is preventing him from getting modeling gigs- beer gut, anyone?
But why if he did not ask for that money? Halle did this to herself. He was living in a modest house and she complained it was not good enough/safe for Nahla, Gabriel had to hire lawyers to defend himself against this and other allegations she has been claiming since she got with Martinez.
The judge ruled that she now had to pay up so the girl could have a similar environtent either with mom and with dad… Gabriel was not crying for the money then, and after all that she tried to take the child to France and when she was denied, the crazy actor-boxer hit Gabriel.
Halle is surrounded by agitation and turmoil, she seems to be always machinating something up. Poor children. I think Olivier actually encourages her in that obsession with GA. He might be jealous of him in some grade.
Halle Berry is apparently worth $80 million. Even paying her ex $16,000/mo until Nahla is 18 is a drop in the bucket for her. Is it really so important, so life and death, so worth looking back on after a long life and deciding this was how she wanted to spend her energy/emotions that she battle him over what amounts to very little money to her? I say try to remember you once gave a shit about this person and just rise above it. If I was filthy rich I’d like to think I wouldn’t be arguing with my ex over what to me means very little, even if it’s “not fair” (as if life is ever fair).
Im going to come at this from a slightly different angle, the international/immigrant. -I have been allowed to work in the US but ONLY in one profession and for one employer after all the paperwork and money. I can’t easily switch employers or professions. Gabe being Canadian should make it easier for him overall but I believe his work permit/visa may limit his profession (modeling) and employer (perhaps a specific agency only). If that’s the case getting another job/profession in the country he’s residing to care for his child may not be easy. And if he were switching to a greencard (which can take years and requires either support by a spouse or company to which one must remain loyal) he’s even more locked in through the duration of the process. So maybe he’s not a lazy bum but limited on work opportunities not just BC he only wants to do one job.
My only other points are
-depending on his situation he may be traveling between the U.S. and Canada for immigration reasons and that’s additional traveling and living expense just to be around and available so Halle doesn’t accuse him of neglect.
-I don’t know how believable Wiki is but the man owned a restaurant and released/produced an album so it’s not like he’s for sure unambituous, there may be limitations on him switching from modeling to a music teacher or even a student because he is Canadian.
-is the itemization of his expenditures proof that he is using support money unnecessarily for personal reasons or that he has enough money for these things and should cut down on his own expenses and funnel more of that money to Nahla’s expenses so that Halle doesn’t have to pay so much?
-Couldn’t Halle effectively lower her payments by lowering her cost of living? Is that not an option?
I am a family law attorney from Los Angeles. If I were the judge, I would deny Berry’s request and would even consider issuing sanctions for what appears to be a frivolous motion. In CA, child support is based on each parent’s income and the custodial timeshare and some other factors contained in the DissoMaster program. In order to modify CS, the moving party has to show there has been a material change of circumstance. Halle’s income has not decreased since 2012 when the order was made. Gabriel’s timeshare is still 50%. There is no evidence that Nahla’s need for support has decreased so why would the judge reduce the support. Berry claims Aubry stopped working but he has not filed any papers for an increase based on his lack of work.
Judges really do not get involved with how the basic child support is spent. I cannot see a judge analyzing Aubry’s Income and Expense Declaration to determine if he is spending the right amount or percentage on groceries, entertainment etc. There is also case law denying the other parent’s request for an accounting of how the child support is spent or trust account for child support. Like most payors, Berry wants to control or micromanage how the child support is spent and judges typically do not allow that. CA child support guideline are high in general so I do not believe $16,000 based on what we know Aubry and Berry have earned was unreasonable.
Regarding Aubry’s alleged un/underemployment. The court cannot force anyone to get a job. Support orders are routinely entered for parents who do not have any income but the support-the most common example are welfare moms. What the court can do is impute income to correspond to what the individual would have earned if he or she pursued employment so the lower earning parent does not get additional support because they do not have a job. Therefore, if Aubry’s is making $0 now, Halle could argue that he is capable of earning $250,000 based on his last two years income tax return and base support on that. Unfortunately for Halle, the $16,000 figure is based on Aubry earning about $200,000 so I do not see how she is entitled to a reduction when he is earning less.
Anyone who does not understand how child support works for very wealth parents in CA should read Marriage of Cryer involving Jon Cryer for Two and a half men. The court refused to lower child support even though the mother had a 3% timeshare and had no income but the child support from which she paid all of her living expenses.
@Queen B
Thanks for spelling it out.
What I really don’t understand is why her legal team agreed to go forward with this request. After all, she’s apparently in arrears to Gabriel so it’s not like she even paid attention to the last ruling so I’m not even sure why she’s bothering to try to overturn it.
Halle’s attorney filed this motion so they can bill another $50,000 in legal fees. Their client is so blinded by anger that she is willing to waste more money. Halle hired one of the top FL firms in Los Angeles and they will file whatever she wants regardless of the merits. She paid Gabriel’s law firm about $300,000 and her own attorney a couple million. I wonder if she is hoping to outspend Aubry so that he capitulates or maybe she hopes to reduce the CS by publicly shaming him via TMZ. The judge denied the move away to France. Hopefully, he will make the right decision again and decline to modify child support.
Here are couple of quotes from the Cryer case which supports Gabriel need for 16k per month-
“section 4053 also provides, “(a) [a] parent’s first and principal obligation is to support his or her minor children according to the parent’s circumstances and station in life”; “(d) [e]ach parent should pay for the support of the children according to his or her ability”; and “(f) [c]hildren should share in the standard of living of both parents. Child support may therefore appropriately improve the standard of living of the custodial household to improve the lives of the children.” (4) In light of these principles, departure from the standard child support formula may be appropriate when application of the formula “would be unjust or inappropriate due to special circumstances in the particular case” (§ 4057, subd. (b)(5)), so long as the variance is consistent with section 4053.
A “`child’s need is measured by the parents’ current station in life …’ [citations],” and “`where the child has a wealthy parent, that child is entitled to, and therefore “needs” something more than the bare necessities of life.’ [Citation.]” (In re Marriage of Cheriton (2001) 92 Cal.App.4th 269, 293 [111 Cal.Rptr.2d 755] (Cheriton).) There was a benefit to child in ordering this level of support, and the fact that Sarah obviously benefited did not per se invalidate the order. (See In re Marriage of Hubner (1988) 205 Cal.App.3d 660 [252 Cal.Rptr. 428].) Depending on the status of Sarah’s visitation and custody situation, child could stay in her house, a house he was used to and which was commensurate with the high standard of living to which he was accustomed. In light of his father’s substantial income and wealth, child “needed” more than an apartment, which was Sarah’s only likely housing option if child support were decreased to guideline levels. An order that resulted in child’s spending time with his father in an opulent abode and time with his mother in a low-rent apartment would have conflicted with the principles of section 4053.
@Queen B
So, she’s essentially paid to the lawyers the equivalent of paying 16k a month for Nahla until she turns 18. Crazy.
Instead of appreciating the fact that her daughter has a loving father, Halle continues to do her level best to alienate the two. It’s a sad state of affairs and has no doubt taken a huge toll on Gabriel.
I hope this soon blows over, and Halle finally starts shelling out the child support she owes Gabriel. (And, better yet, finds a new target for her venom!)
Maybe she should have decided to have a child with a multi-millionaire father instead of pretty boys who don’t have two nickels to rub together. In that way, she could collect child support instead of having to pay it out. California has guideline child support which is a function of each parent’s income. Choices have consequences, Hallie.
Shes the typical hot, psycho crazy bitch. Rise above it and do it for the kid. #notteamhalle
A little bit of googling tells me Gabriel has done the Barneys S/S 14 look book, Barneys S/S 14 advertising campaign, S/S 15 fashion campaign with some brand called VR São Paulo and he has done further work with VR. I guess that shuts down any rumours of him being a gold digger or an unemployed KFed from TMZ and Halle’s camp.
To think Nahla finally had some peace in her life. Maybe Halle isn’t making the money that she once use to?
God forbid a man fights to remain an active presence in his daughter’s life despite the curveballs he has been thrown! He has pretty much bent over backwards to appease Halle. Can’t she just be an adult and get along with him for the sake of her daughter? Nahla loves her father dearly. Can’t she see that?
*sigh* I really do feel for Nahla! This poor little girl will have this drama up until high school.
I never believed Aubry stopped working completely but it is possible that his work may have slowed down due to age, his child care responsibilities and the negative publicity from Halle’s camp.
When it comes to Gabriel, I can not believe anything TMZ says. I find it interesting that they listed a few expenses for Gabriel but no information on how much Halle earns and spends on their daughter to see if Aubry’s expenditures are excessive in comparison. I have no doubt that Halle gives Nahla the best of everything from clothes to a private school education which costs about 30k a year.
TMZ has repeatedly put forth a lot of misinformation which turned out to be false. For example, when they were litigating the move away to France, every story from TMZ was about how the custody evaluation was in Halle’s favor, she is the better parent, Gabriel’s expert witnesses were poorly received suggesting the move was almost certain and then the judge ruled against Halle. TMZ/Harvey Levin never explained how Gabriel was able to win in light of their previous stories.
Gabriel to his credit has decided not to fight this battle in the press with the exception of a few positive articles on radaronline. Gabriel appears to be a good dad for the judge to award him primary physical custody if Halle decided to move to France anyway and joint custody 50/50 if she did not move.
If anyone should get a CS Modification it is Britney Spears. Her money is apparently supporting Kevin, his wife and four other children but she has not done so. I think Jamie Spears realizes that $240k/year is relatively insignificant for someone who is making millions from Planet Hollywood and other business ventures. Halle needs to let it go. She has been dragging this man in and out of court for the past three or four years.
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Weird thing but several of the comments praising Halle and dissing Gabriel somehow read very much in the same voice. Now I’m not saying that anyone (Halle) is creating burner User Names to point out ad nauseam that Gabriel is spending the child support money on himself and that he needs to get a job (from info that Halle provided no less which means the accusation is probably 95% some mess she’s made up) but something in the milk is not clean.
I don’t trust anything that comes out of Halle’s mouth. She’s so bitter and nasty. I remember when she was married to Eric Benet and she was everywhere being all schmoozey about how much she loved his daughter, India but then the marriage got rocky. Rumor mill is that Eric wanted to leave Halle and I think I even heard that the two were separated but the press got a hold of the info that he was seeing someone else before Halle had a chance to make her BIG divorce announcement so she forced him to say that he was a sex addict and to go to rehab for sex addiction so she could play the victim role of the beleaguered wife. Oh yeah…the two divorced shortly after Eric returned from rehab and the little girl that Halle supposedly loved so much was pretty much dumped because Halle hasn’t had anything to do with her.