Last year, Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry’s seemingly neverending child custody drama finally came to a close. Except not really. The judge finally had enough of Halle’s nonsense – Halle dropped injunctions and complaints on Gabriel so many times – and ordered Halle and Gabriel to get along for the sake of their child, Nahla. Halle was ordered to pay Gabriel $16,000 a month ($200K a year) in child support because Gabriel’s joint custodial rights were confirmed. To add insult to injury for Halle, she had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal fees… for Gabriel’s lawyers. And she had to pay Gabriel $115,000 in retroactive child support.
That all happened about a year ago. Since then, Halle has been biding her time, looking for an excuse to drop more legal crap on Gabriel. She made a huge issue last November about Gabriel allegedly (?) straightening Nahla’s hair that went nowhere. And now Halle seems to be fighting the amount of money she has to send to Gabriel every month.
Halle Berry is in court in a face-off with baby daddy Gabriel Aubry, and she wants a judge to tell him in no uncertain terms … she’s no longer his meal ticket.
Berry’s child support trial begins [Tuesday morning]. TMZ broke the story … Halle wants the judge to reduce the child support she’s paying Gabriel from $16,000 a month to somewhere closer to the neighborhood of $3,000 a month.
Berry has groused Gabriel needs to get a job and pay his own freight. She says she’s happy to pay him to properly care for 7-year-old Nahla when he has physical custody, but she says he’s using the money to avoid work.
Aubry has been a successful model, but says he lost a lot of work after Halle’s then-fiance/now hubby, Olivier Martinez, beat his face in. Halle and Gabriel have joint custody.
Some people take issue with the idea that Halle Berry is “crazy.” I am not one of those people. I think she legitimately has some mental health issues and her obsession with sticking it to the father of her daughter is a symptom of a larger problem for Halle. How many times is she going to take Gabriel to court? Why not just find some peace and find a way to co-parent like two adults?
Oh, and I do believe Halle and Olivier are over and have been over for a while. Olivier is going to have a much easier time fighting for custodial rights for their son Maceo because Olivier made sure to marry Halle. Whenever they announce their split… OMG, the divorce and custody battle is going to be EPIC. I hope Olivier enjoyed the preview he got when Halle was warring with Gabriel.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I wonder if she is doing this because she knows a big fight is coming with Martenez and she is going to have to provide a big payoff to not have another hit to her reputation. Could she be hurting for liquid, those legal battles were not cheap.
The judges do not assign amounts out of thin air. They are decided, just like for regular people, based on income…
But if she does divorce and money has to exchange hands. Would that have to become public. Just how much money does she have. The tv show is recent and her movie career has stalled a bit.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Halle Berry’s net worth is $80 million, Olivier Martinez has $20 million, and Gabriel Aubry is worth $4.5 million. Not chump change for sure, but I agree that Halle might be worried about being taken to the cleaners if she doesn’t have a prenup made out of God’s promises.
Okay Hawkeye, that last line made me chuckle.
My dad was also a pastor, and he used to say that all the time. It always cracked me up.
That was what I thought last year. She’s trying to lower her child support to Aubry because she’s going to have to pay support to Martinez.
She does have mental problems, from what I’ve read. Eric Benef’s friends used to call her Scary Berry.
David Justice indicated Halle had serious mental problems, too. Now, there’s absolutely no excuse for what he did to her. However, this has become a pattern with her relationships. And, the common denominator in all of them is HER.
That’s a good point, I mean I pretty much knew their relationship was doomed from the start anyway. So, that would make sense. It’ll just be another failed relationship for Halle.
Don’t get me wrong– while
she is still beautiful– Halle is truly starting to show her age. The bitchiness and constantly carrying around internal anger shows on her face.
As this post stated— she had deeper issues and its obvious is actually a pretty miserable
person. Sadly, not sure it can be fixed since she has been in the mode for so long. She will continue to have difficult relationships and also the indistry already knows how challenging she is to work with.
She completely looked like she didnt even want to be a presenter last night and totally phoned that in. I realize I am repeating myself but Chick looks sooo miserable! Ugh.
Well, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
She’s near 50, she’s not full with botox and fillers and now “she’s truly starting to show her age” well let her! This is why Madonna – esque filler botox disasters happen in hollywood, because once someone shows some lines at 45/46 they are “starting to show their age” with a pity tone.
I could not handle this.
Well said!!! 🙂
Agreed! +1
Amen.
Thank you!
Well,we all age. That’s the natural as far as I know. I am all about maintenance and do procedures myself but to paralyze your face so that someone thinks you haven’t aged is ridiculous. And in my opinion she is a very very beautiful woman.
Halle is still outrageously beautiful and if all women her age were “showing their age” like she is, well damn they’re all going to be gorgeous. That’s a shallow and ageist comment to make and has no bearing on any current or upcoming custody battles she has or may have.
You are 100% right. She is gorgeous & she is right to resist paying money to her gold digging, money grubbing ex. He should do what every other normal able bodied person does. Get a job & stop living the life of riley off Halle Berry. Lazy gold diggers are sickening, and it is gross that the courts seem to encourage their grifting ways
I was wondering how long it would take for a comment like this. Lol. I gave you too much credit, my guess was 20-25comments. 😂
and yet, if the dad was the big money earner and fighting to keep child support down, he’d be raked across the coals for being a dead-beat. You have to love the double standard in both the media and courts when it comes to women and men.
@Tristan – In no way did I condone her continuing fight to deprive the co-parent of her daughter his legal rights. He is not a leech and any court of law a judge will give a parent the money required to KEEP THE CHILD IN A MANNER TO WHICH IT IS ACCUSTOMED. So he needs the money to take care of Nahla in the way Halle takes care of her, not in a lesser style of living from what she has with her mother. PERIOD FULL STOP.
@jojo THANK YOU! I’ve been saying this all along throughout this whole drama.
We’re around the same age and while I think I look pretty darned good, Halle looks SPECTACULAR! Of course, she’s got all kinds of issues going on, but she still looks great.
What in the world does her face (which is fine btw) have to do with the context of this post? She is 50. Pray that you look half as good at 50 as she does.
I think she looks gorgeous. No shade there.
why does she remind me of Sally Field in that second pic?
It’s the eyes, the frown between her eyebrows. She totally does.
How the hell do you get that “right”?
$16,000 a month it’s a lot of money. While I do agree that Halle is not stable, $16,000 a month for child support seems like a ton of money for a parent who isn’t disabled and is fully able to work.
From what I understand it isn’t determined by his requests, it is a standard number determined by the LA court based on the income of the higher earner. Halle said his apartment wasn’t a safe place for Nahla, so the judge awarded enough money to get him a place on-par with Berry’s, etc.. She made her bed, now she’s paying for it.
It is determined partly by his requests. He was getting a lot less and went to court seeking an adjustment, claiming he couldn’t work but still wanted to provide a lifestyle for Nahla in keeping with that provided by Halle. Anywhere but in LA, those arguments really wouldn’t fly. Look what happened to the mother of Ludacris’ s child in Atlanta.
It does seem very much to me. True, I’m in Canada and we have federal guidelines which are very modest. This type of child support pretty much allows the receiving parent to live the high life for all these years with no effort. I’m having trouble accepting it and if he was a woman he would have been called a golddigger ten times by now on this thread solely. Hundreds of times ex wives of rich men are accused they married and gave birth only to secure such payments, why does he get a pass? That’s a lot ofmoney.
He gets a pass cause people like to side with someone, and in this case it sure as hell is not gonna be Halle.
But he does work, and he will never make as much money as she does… If the roles and genders were reversed, he was a big movie star and she was an aging catalog model, for example, would you still say he should not pay her support? I am always amazed that people don’t look at it within the framework of the law – you have a couple whose earning power is vastly different and they co-parent a child. The one earning more ends up paying child support.
This is not a gender discrimination issue. That amount is actually way too high given the circumstances here.
Just for reference: Halle is no longer in Xmen and her tv show Extant probably wont go into a third season. She is an actress approaching 50, her big money days are over. Part of the reason she is even still working is that she is aggressive about it. She is paying $15,000 a month in child support.
Jeremy Renner on the other hand has a very lucrative house flipping business aaaand his film career is on fire right now. He is on three (3) major film franchises and even without those I think we remember the Sony leak emails that confirmed that he is earning at par with Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper even for small supporting roles. He is paying $13,000 a month in child support.
If you go back to the Sony v Renner posts you will find that the vast majority of us thought that even $13,000 was outrageous. So since you insist on equality, “Gabriel Aubry is a gold digger whose ambition is to look pretty and live off another persons work and is exploiting his own child to do so”.
Where I live the determination of child support is based on the earnings and earning POTENTIAL of both parents. This is to prevent high-earners from quitting lucrative careers in order to evade or lower child support orders.
If Barry can prove to the court that she is is living in reduced circumstances, she very well may get a reduction in the ordered payments. If she can prove that Aubry is not looking for work, that also might get her a reduction. If Aubry has an agent who can prove that he/she has been trying to get him work over the last few years, she likely won’t succeed.
You mention Renner’s house flipping business but what about Halle’s Deichmann ads, or her 7 perfumes that she released since 2009?
I think the general public just automatically assumes that celebrities have more money than they actually have. Saying someone is worth this or that doesn’t mean a think. Your worth is measured in different terms. Their worth takes a lot into consideration.. She may be have more money going out than she does coming in. She is on a TV show but she has not made a movie that is going to pay her MILLIONs in some time. And she is not getting huge movie deals. So this amount of money maybe hard for her considering what she actually makes. Her husband is not responsible for her financial responsibility for Nahla and may not want to contribute to that.
“I think the general public just automatically assumes that celebrities have more money than they actually have.”
Precisely. DMX just got locked up on a defaulting charge. He is required to pay $15,000 a month for the upkeep of six kids and being the douche that he is, has pretty much ignored the problem. Now setting aside DMXs douchey nature, it actually turns out that he is worth far less than anybody would have thought. He the guy is “worthless” right now. His net worth is at negative ten million dollars, as in -10,000,000.
Granted, he is clearly made some major mistakes, (his catalogue should have guaranteed comfort to his death bed), the point is we really dont know whats happening with other peoples bank balances particularly when they are clearly passed their hay day.
It’s a lot of money for regular people, but the idea of child support is that the less affluent parent will be able to provide roughly the same kind of environment for their child as the affluent one. As a successful actress with a 20+ year career, Halle (presumably) has a lot more money than Gabriel has or is able to make, so it seems reasonable to me that she pays a higher amount.
It also seems in line with what you see celeb men paying.
Of course, if he IS using the $$ as an excuse not to work, he needs to get off his ass.
@Samtha, who wrote: “Of course, if he IS using the $$ as an excuse not to work, he needs to get off his ass.”
Of course he’s using the money to live on so he doesn’t have to work, AND he’s using it for his girlfriend(s) as well. There are pictures of him at Golf Resorts without Nahla and Halle’s money is paying for that.
If getting a beat-down by Halle’s Husband affected his ability to get modeling jobs, what was his excuse ‘before’ the beat-down? Because he damn sure wasn’t working then. In fact, I don’t think he worked at all once Halle got pregnant. That would have certainly bugged me, along with his constant demand that she become pregnant again so Nahla wouldn’t be an only child. LOL! Undergoing those fertility treatments in an attempt to give Gabriel another child, without success, is probably how Halle and Oliver got a blessed surprised with their son.
You’re right, you’re right!!
And from the photos I saw of him he is still handsome… He healed quite nicely and can get a job. But…. you can’t stop ageing, which I think is his plan… To age out and hurt her where it matters most (apparently)
Gabriel does not have to pay for body guards and stuff. A good house, schooling (for half the year), water and lights, food, clothing etc and a car is what Halle is paying for here. Depending on where he lives… 16k can be just enough or waaay too much.
If I were him, I would still be looking for a job after all these years since the divorce, I really would… and I’m pretty sure I would have found one by now. Because it’s nice to pay for your kids on your own dime, and not necessary via your ex.
Having said that, Miss Berry really needs to re-evaluate her situation cause all of this means waay to much too her, and it’s beginning to become an obsession. Unless, she’s pushing for this because she genuinely does not have any movies coming in and is starting to get strapped for cash.
He was in a major campaign with Heidi Klum in January. He models for European firms. Not sure if he still owns/runs a restaurant, but he actually does work. Her lawsuits make him sound like he sits on his duff but that is not true, look him up online, he is repped by two major agencies (US and Europe). But yes he makes way less than her and based on their incomes the judges decide on the amount if support.
@vauvert Yeah, the whole “he doesn’t work and is a lazy bum who needs to get off his ass” defense is getting old. He DOES work, but he will never make as much money as Halle does.
The amounts are set so that the child’s lifestyle doesn’t alter between the two parents. Plus, look at before/after pics of Gabriel from when Olivier beat him up. Not the same face at all. His modeling career certainly would have taken a hit. Halle is always her own worst enemy (well – except for the Eric Benet stuff).
But if really suffered permanent damage to his face that has hurt his career why hasn’t he sued Oliver for it? Or has he and I just don’t know about it.
“The amounts are set so that the child’s lifestyle doesn’t alter between the two parents.”
I see this repeated a lot on this particular story and it quite simply isnt so. The court looks to ensure that the lifestyle disparities arent so significant as to affect the relationship between the child and the poorer parent. This is not the same as ensuring that the child experiences an equal life style between each parent. Just think on what an unfair burden it would place on the wealthier parent if he/she had to support two households at the same lifestyle level.
In other words, “Your Honor, Halle has a pool in her home, I need to have one in mine too”, just doesnt fly. The judge may of course get your co-parent to pay for access to a local pool nearby but he isnt going to ask them to build you a pool. There are a lot of factors that go into determining child support and this one is over emphasized and poorly understood here.
Found this pics from last month http://cdn04.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hannah-gabriel/hannah-davis-gabriel-aubry-dsquared-party-13.jpg he looks fine to me? Lost the tan, that is all…
Charlie Sheen pays $50,000 per month to the two mothers of his kids, with which he has two children each. That’s $25,000 per kid.
Just like any wealthy parent, she has to pay enough to allow him to raise her in the same lifestyle that she’s used to when she’s with Halle. Her obligation is her obligation.
Not a good example. Sheen was the highest-earning actor on TV at one point. He’s got crazy amounts of money, unless it all went up his nose already…
You have to be careful with the people you procreate with. A marriage is one thing, but babies… that means you can’t escape the person.
Boy you’re so right. People should really give it a lot of thought. Don’t have s baby because you’re in that honeymoon period. At least wait several years and get to know one another.
I know people who have been so in love. Fast forward five yearz and they want to kill one another.
Now throw a baby in it you have yourself a complete messy situation for the next eighteen years.
The best advice my friend who had a baby with a deadbeat father who hasn’t seen the kid since he was 3 (he is almost 7 now) nor paid child support since he was 3 said was be very careful who you have children with.
I saw her presenting at the ESPYs.. she looked so tiny.. just so tiny..
I just feel sorry for Gabriel and for the way Nahla will feel reading all this stuff once she is old enough. She is lucky that her father is a loving, mentally stable guy who has kept on fighting for the right to equally parent, despite the obvious power/financial disparity between him and Halle.
And Halle? If he would have been willing to sign away his rights to you, I bet you would have gladly paid him the (measly to you) $200K/ year, but he wasn’t, and that burns. You thought a guy who is not a star or rich and powerful would gladly trade a daughter for a meal ticket, but he didn’t. He should hang out with Daniel G and form a men’s club.
As far as support payments go, before anyone starts saying he should work – he does. He looked awesome with Heidi in the recent campaign… But he will always make a lot less than Halle and after years together and a child the payments were set based on their respective earnings. Same thing would happen if the genders were reversed, so why can’t anyone, her lawyers included, get this through Halle’s head? And yes, the divorce from Oliver will be totally epic.
A-men!
Totally agree.
+3
Exactly.
@vauvert THANK YOU! Finally, someone says it. A++ post. I’m tired of people giving Halle a pass because she’s a woman. Double standards.
I can’t wait for the divorce from Olivier, it’s going to be amazing. lol He was so much more likable before he hooked up with her, so maybe I’ll like him again someday after he’s rid of her.
“I can’t wait for the divorce from Olivier, it’s going to be amazing. lol”
lmao, this is what I’ve been saying for like a year now. I’m just so disappointed she didn’t get the permission to move to France and have the second kid there. Can you imagine?
This is going to be a recurring theme for their daughter. Gabriel is a good dad and he loves his daughter. These never ending court cases are going to bite her in the butt.
I still don’t think this is OK to say “women do it all the time, why shouldn’t she pay him”.
I don’t think it’s right that men have to pay thousands of dollars for women who just basically went and impregnated themselves to get 18 years of a good life (not including wives of many years here), and I don’t think it’s right that GA is getting that much money and not doing anything else. Is his face that messed up that it cannot be photoshopped? Or is it his age?
What keeps him from working on something else? I’m confused.
I hate it when people just throw the whole “she’s crazy and she deserve what she’s getting”.
For all we know she might not even be getting as much money as she used to years ago.
Agree.
It’s not exactly true that he’s not doing anything else. That’s disingenuous. He IS working, but he’ll never make as much money as Halle.
Whenever you see the relationship your current partner has with their ex, take in mind that that could be you in the future. Unhealthy break ups can be part of a pattern, and now that Olivier shares a kid with her he’s going to regret the way he treated Gabriel. He’ll understand where he’s coming from. Halle is a difficult woman.
The day that happened I thought the exact same thing. I knew see was making an ass out of himself for her benefit. And she manipulated the whole situation.
One day he’s going to run into Gabriel and probably commiserate on what fools they were to fall into her trap.
And how some people think that will never happen to them. My ex, once I learned how he treated his ex (while we were in the process of breaking up), it was the same pattern with me.
If the conversation of exes coming, I keep my ears open to how they speak about them. If every ex was crazy and you were the victim, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, I’m stupid.
I had an ex and he talked about all his crazy exes, after I dumped him he stalked me and I had to get a restraining order against him. If all their exes are crazy, it usually is because they themselves are the crazy one. No one is that unlucky.
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? It’s $192,000 per year. That’s nothing in LA. She’s probably spending more on lawyer’s fees at this point.
Obviously it is a lot of money, but in LA that doesn’t seem like hugely more than what you would need to live in a nice two-bedroom with with a doorman with room for toys vs. a studio in a “funky” neighborhood, and private school fees.
ITA. I don’t think that that is a lot of money. I live in NYC. That is lower middle class. You could not afford to live in Manhattan on that (rent alone can run from $3,00 to $5,oo for a just average two bedroom in a just average neighborhood. Maybe it is a lot of money outside of most major cities, but I know many people scraping to make end meet on that amount of money.
I called this, like most people, soon after they married. I bet Oliver got a taste of her crazy three months into the marriage and it just went downhill from there.
I also believed she use her husband. She wanted to show she was the more stable parent by marrying. Plus she thought it was her right to wisk everyone off to Paris so she could get Gabriel out of her child’s life. Another reason she used Olivier. So she can probably get French citizenship easier.
Either way she is a calculated piece of work.
Luckily, the judge didn’t fall for her “I’m married to a French citizen, so I should be allowed to move there with my daughter” excuse.
THIS SFM. Thank god the judge was smarter than she thought.
I’m not familiar with child support/custody but I wouldn’t think that if they have equal custody she would have to pay him such large sums? It seems like a lot.
They were a stunning couple!
I do think $16,000/month is excessive for one child part time, so I am with her on this one. What exactly is that supposed to cover? Just things for the daughter or his rent, food, and expenses?
Rent is for his daughter. At one point Halle took him to court saying his apartment wasn’t safe enough for Nalla so Halle didn’t want her going there. The judge saw that for what it was and said, ok fine, he gets to move into a nicer more secure apartment and Halle gets to pay the difference.
Child support is to support the child and to ensure they don’t have drastically different life styles at each parents house. It’s not fair to the child to live in her mom’s several million dollar mega mansion one week and her dad’s 1,000sq ft 2 bedroom apartment the next.
I’m with Halle on this one too. I’m assuming she’s paying for Nahla’s school and health insurance. Gabriel has Nahla for what 3 days a week? Why does he need $16,000 a month?
Because it’s what the court decided.
@Paranormalgirl Judges are not infallible you know.
Didn’t say they were, but there is a formula: CS = K (HN – (H%) (TN)) they use in ALL child support cases. It’s not arbitrary. The judges are required to order child support in the amount determined by the formula.
CS is the child support amount. This is what the formula will calculate once you’ve plugged in all of your information. The amount will be for one child. If a couple has more children, they must multiply the CS amount by a figure set out in the law, which depends on the number of children.
K is the combined total of both parents’ income to be allocated for child support. (The amount of the parents’ combined income that must be devoted to child support, in turn, depends on how much the parents earn and on how much time the higher-earning parent spends with the child.)
HN stands for high net: The net monthly disposable income of the parent who earns more.
H% is the approximate percentage of time that the high earner has or will have primary physical responsibility for the children compared to the other parent. (For example, that parent might have the children 25% of the time, while the other parent has them 75% of the time.) In cases in which parents have different time-sharing arrangements for different children, H% equals the average of the approximate percentages of time the high earner parent spends with each child.
TN is the combined total net monthly disposable income of both parents.
You need to look at it from an income perspective. While most of us think $16K a month is a huge amount of money, Halle Berry — assuming only interest income on a net worth of $80 million, and assuming 5% which is low — is earning $4 million a year on just investments. That’s not including what she makes as an actress and her Revlon campaign. That’s $333,333 a month. And he’s getting $16,000, which is 4.8% of her investment income. PLUS she gets to deduct it from her taxes.
It’s not unfair at all.
Regular folks tend to pay 20-50% of their income as child support.
Thanks for breaking it down. It’s fair according to the formula @paranormalgirl posted above.
Exactly, Enid.
20% of half of Halle’s income above (given that they have 50/50 custody so he only has her half the time, and then taking 20% of that) is $33K a month. It is definitely not unfair and I think that if Halle were male and Gabriel was Gabriella, the struggling female model, no one here would say $16K is too much money and she should get more work, when the other parent’s income is $333K a month. If Halle’s net worth is $80 million as stated above, I don’t think this overstates it at all.
I wonder why this woman cannot manage to have a long term relationship.
My God, they were such a gorgeous couple.
ETA: in Texas, support is totally based on the income of the paying party unless the parties agree to a different amount. So it wouldn’t really matter here if Gabriel was working or not. Maybe California is different? Anybody know?
Gabriel Aubrey is a pathetic male gold digger who impregnated very rich woman and now wants to be jobless until he dies. He has zero of self respect. He has no skills, education; he has to understand that self awareness is important for male ego.
Literally every single part of this statement is wrong, that’s impressive.
Ok, Halle. Take a deep breath!
Wrong, wrong and wrong. Halle didn’t just wake up one morning with a baby she didn’t want, she was the other half of a couple who both wanted a child. He does not want to be jobless until he dies, he appears to have a great deal of self-respect because he’s refused to go public with his battles with Halle. He’s a great parent and until she turned into a demented harpy and tried to take Nahla away, and until Olivier broke his face, he had a lucrative modelling career. Halle set out quite deliberately to ruin him and she accomplished it very well. Now she has to pay for it.
Calm down, Halle.
I wonder I’d Halle is short on funds these days. I think she’s in a TV show but she’s not in many movies anymore and her last several movies have flopped. I bet she doesn’t have nearly the amount of money she used to have and her future earnings aren’t looking good.
I also find it intestine that she used to parade Nahla all over town and I have seen a single picture of her son. Not even a picture of her carrying a car seat or pushing a stroller. He has to be around a year old now if not older.
I bet she still makes a LOT of $$$ for very little work appearing in print and TV ads for makeup & other products.
$16,000 a month is a hell of a lot of money for child support. But we are talking about a celebrity child living in Hollywood. Unless Gabriel moves to Omaha or somewhere, the typical real world child support of $500-$600 a month (or whatever) won’t cut it. Considering that she makes millions per movie, $192,000 a year is not that big of a hit to her pocketbook. I think she is just an angry, bitter woman who is determined to make her baby daddy’s life miserable in the hopes that he will give Nahla up.
Multiply that $16,000 times two – assuming that she’ll have to pay support for Maceo, too, she’s definitely looking at her pocketbook taking a big hit. If she can get the child support she’s paying to Gabriel each month reduced, then she can use that lower amount as a guideline for the judge to determine what she pays Olivier. She could argue that it wouldn’t be fair to the children if their lifestyles/support weren’t equitable. Or she could just grow up and act like an adult for her children’s sake.
Hmmm, no, he’s still pretty hot, even post face-bashing….
And who didn’t know her relationship with Oliver was a diaster from the start. You know she only married him to try to move Nahla to France. It was never going to last. He probably has a ton of dirt on her and he obviously fights as dirty as she does. I bet she’s scared to have a long drawn out custody fight/breakup with him.
Bingo.
In California child support is determined by a uniform guideline (used in every case) based on the type of custody awarded, the number of children, the income of each party, the disposable income of the higher earner, among other things. It’s not some arbitrary number some judge throws out because one person made a million and the other $50,000, for example. This is why the child support awarded in cases where one party is much wealthier than the other and they have joint custody of the child(ren) sometimes seems excessive.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. It might sting but Halle is the higher-earning adult in this relationship and she’s the one who’s made repeated claims about how Gabriel’s apartment isn’t good enough for Nahla, how she’s worried about her safety, etc. Well in this country if you’re paying child support and you’re the higher earner YOU make up the difference to make sure YOUR child can be in the lap of luxury you want. Halle shot herself in the foot and had to deal with the consequences.
She’s like Kelly Rutherford and I think as the kids get older they’re going to be more and more aware of how destructive their mothers can be. A destructive ex-spouse in a divorce can be an utterly terrifying thing. I have a friend who’s ex waited till she lost her job to pounce and demand full custody because she ‘couldn’t provide a stable environment for the kids’. Completely heartbreaking and she’s utterly frantic now.
My heart goes out to your friend. How horrible! I can’t imagine….
Thank you so much Vampi!
She had just finished college classes to help her become a higher earner and get a better job when she was suddenly fired. We all know what the economy is and as soon as she was dealt that blow he made it clear that he didn’t want ‘his’ daughter to be in such an unstable environment.
Some people are just so cruel.
Thank you! And, so sorry to hear about your friend.
Didn’t she walk in on babydaddy #1 cheating on her with two women in her bed? Hopefully, things are more amicable with her husband.
I believe that was Eric Benet, not Gabriel Aubry.
I believe Nic is right. Didn’t Halle adopt Eric daughter from a previous marriage. I knew she was upset about paying alimony but lucked out on child support because the girl was months away from 18.
@Tiffany – Halle never adopted India. When the marriage ended and while the press was still focused on her, she said she was going to continue to be India’s mother. But months later, she stopped communicating with her. Both India & Eric have stated this.
@The Original Mia. Really. That is sad. Sometimes kids really do get the brunt of parents acting stupid.
how many times are we soo happy when a women gets a lot in schild support i say it should be equal as well for a women if the man makes less in some cases. I would love to spend one more day with my father Halle looks like on paper that she does not care if her child has a relationship with her father and to me thats pathetic and karma circles back.
Get a job Gabriel, just get a job.
She’d still have to pay for child support though.
He has a job. And he works. He just had a major spring campaign with Heidi Klum for INC/Macy’s and he’s been tapped for the Fall campaign as well.
Oh good, but I guess he feels he needs so much more to keep he and his daughter in that privileged lifestyle huh. So until she 18 Halle just has to suck it up. I wonder what will happen when Halle stops making good money and can’t pay out that amount of cash.
He already has one. LOL
I agree, so does Halle have to continue to pay Aubrey for life….is he ever going to work.
Its not just about keeping Nahla in the life she’s accustomed to, it’s the matter that he is able to work and just uses the excuse that he has to parent the child. Oh boy if any of you had to put out the $16,000 check to someone while they just sat on their butt you would be unstable too!! Oh and btw his face looks fine and so does the rest of his body. Respect your manhood and get a job.
A quick internet search easily reveals that Gabriel is working. The ad campaign for Macy’s co starring Heidi Klum happened this year. My feeling is that Halle does not want to pay any child support . Guideline child support was calculated at 20k , then they agreed to reduce it to 16k which is below guideline. There is no dispute that Halle has the ability to pay. Gabriel earned about 200k in 2012 and 2011
For an extraordinary high earner like Halle, $16,000 is reasonable. Also, child support should go towards Gabriel’s rent and car payments because the child is living with him and needs transportation.
I think many people who pay child support believe they are paying too much so Halle is not unusual in that regard because she has no control over how the support money is spent .
She probably wants to lower GA’s support, because she knows she will soon be paying OM support, shortly! If she had been smart, she just would have gone to a sperm bank and got impregnated. I think she thought she would be able to buy off GA…and I don’t know what she was thinking, getting with OM!! OM isn’t GA….Halle is probably shaking in her boots at the thought of a divorce and custody battle with that rageaholic!!!!
Nailed it. Halle thought she could get the baby she wanted from Gabriel and then buy him off. But, he can’t be bought. The divorce from Olivier is going to be epic because of his rage issues.
You can’t deduct child support from your taxes, it’s not considered income so it’s not taxable. On the other hand, alimony/spousal support IS taxable income, and the party paying it can take it as a tax deduction.
200.000 a year is 2 mio in 10 years and 4 mio in 20 years (!!!). That should be peanuts for a woman like Halle if she really is worth anything close to those 80 mio. She should be able to pay off that money out of interest.
My guess is that the lawyers so far have been given a very huge fee. That fee would probably cover any payments to Aubry for the next 3 years.
Does anybody have a better estimation?
you know, I think people should work if they are able to. It sets a good example for Nahla, as well, to see her father supporting himself.
I googled and he does have jobs, but he will never make as much as Halle.
All that being said, Halle tried to keep him off Nahla’s birth certificate, so to me, all bets are off. That alone, when he clearly wanted to be an equal part of Nahla’s life- take Halle for anything he can get. She, I think, makes his life a living hell simply because 1) she does make more money and 2) he dared want to be a father to Nahla. The stress alone must be awful.
So wanting to be named as her father meant he wanted to take her mother for everything he can get? If that was his reasoning, he’s done a crappy job of it.
Exactly.
@bluhare, you misunderstood the comment.
I was going to say I saw him on a giant billboard with Heidi Klum recently. I don’t believe her b.s. that he doesn’t want to work. Modeling is not a 9 to 5 job. He also has to adjust his schedule around Nahla and when he’ll have her. I NEVER got the vibe that he was a gold digger, never. He always seemed to adore his child and she always looks happy and comfortable with him. Why did they even break up? I thought their relationship would work. Naturally, I don’t know the inner workings of their relationship, but hot damn, that man is f-cking gorgeous, much prettier than Olivier. Yes, I know looks aren’t everything, but that man is f-cking gorgeous!
Agreed. He seems like a great dad and gorgeous. Sorry he has to deal with crazy beyotch
Its easy to comment that Halle is a crazy person but since I believe none of us were privy to what reall went on behind close doors with any of her relationships, we shouldn’t be so quick to put all the blame oh Halle. Being gorgeous on the outside does not always mean that you are beautiful on the inside too.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Am I the only one who finds Gabriel incredibly hot?!? I’d take him a heartbeat! Halle is a fool. Olivier seems like a hot mess (but maybe like her eh?)
She is kind of nuts. She claimed she cured her Type 1 diabetes without insulin, which I’m pretty sure is not a “thing” because last I checked, it’s incurable.
Halle is a hot mess. Ever since this pity party, which is always her being the victim, I’ve tuned out. If she and Olivier divorce it will be long and ugly. Its sad that her daughter has to be around so much petty behavior. We can only hope her relationship with her father is a grounding influence.
If I was Gabriel I would say just let her lower the amount as long as I don’t have to deal with that crazy B anymore. Yes Halle Berry is crazy enough is enough guys get screwed all the time on child support and having to deal with crazy ex’s because I’ve seen this first hand. Some ex’s will continue to harass over and over to their ex’s over the dumbest sh** so unless you’ve actually dealt with this you would have no clue. Let her lower it Gabriel also bar Halle Berry from ever contacting you again and just using a third party mediator. At least you will live in peace.
This again? Halle is so obsessed, and she seems to have real mental issues. She’s overdue for serious therapy to deal with them. If a man were to do this, everybody would be calling him a deadbeat dad. Yet, she always gets a pass. I know Halle’s career isn’t where it used to be, but this is the second time she’s gone to court trying to get her child support payments lowered. When men try that, they get raked over the coals for it. They’re accused of trying to “avoid” paying child support and told to just “pay up” anyway. What’s so special about her that we don’t give her the same treatment?
she didn’t get a pass. her image took a huge dive because of this mess.
As Halle ages she is taking on the personality characteristics of the Bitch named Sharon Stone … it’s like a disease that takes over when your Stardom doesn’t shine so bright. Sharon is about as pleasant to be around as a rattlesnake. By contrast … Gabriel Aubry is a very likeable guy !
Lunatic meets golddigging male bimbo.
Except for the fact Gabriel actually has a job, so NO. lol
I don’t get why people insist Gabriel isn’t working- he always worked. But most importantly, he’s a caring dad. Halle, on the other hand, seems to have some issues, and can’t let go. Looks like she’s full of anger and resentments, and I also believe her marriage to Martinez is over already. Last time I saw a picture of Martinez, he looked haggard. He’s a piece of work, too. I don’t understand why a parent cannot have an at least casually-friendly relationship with her ex for the sake of her child. Is she so self-obsessed?