Yesterday we heard that Halle Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, was being investigated for misdemeanor battery and child endangerment after an altercation with a nanny who works for both Halle and Gabriel. Apparently the nanny confronted Aubry over not bringing his nearly four year-old daughter, Nahla, to school. The argument then got heated, with the nanny telling police that Gabriel verbally abused her and then pushed her while she was holding Nahla. The nanny claims she almost fell and that she was slammed against the wall.

Opinions on this story were very polarized. Some people thought the nanny was on team Halle and was trying to malign Gabriel, which is supported by the nanny’s claims that Gabriel often called her a “spy” when she was at his house. Maybe she does have allegiances to Halle, but even if that’s the case it doesn’t rule out Aubry being abusive. Also, the nanny told the police the minor and unnecessary detail that Nahla had a rash that Gabriel refused to treat. Why would she tell them that unless she was throwing accusations out there trying to see what would stick? Plus, the nanny lost a restraining order bid she had against Gabriel. In the restraining order, she admits opening his apartment door with a key she had on January 18 just prior to the altercation and she makes no mention of knocking. On the other hand, we’ve heard for some time that Aubry has an explosive temper, and why would the nanny bother to take out a restraining order unless she was afraid of him? It’s not too farfetched to imagine him going off on an employee who overstepped her bounds and then pushing her out the door.

Well a new article in Radar has a “source” close to Gabriel who claims that he didn’t push the nanny and that she “tripped.”

However, Aubry is telling a very different version of events.

“Why in the world would Gabriel push the nanny causing her to fall while she was holding his daughter?” a source close to the situation asks. “Gabriel is fiercely protective of Nahla. The nanny tripped, and she fell while holding Nahla. Yes, Gabriel and the nanny were arguing, he felt like his parenting skills were under attack again. Gabriel can’t believe how out of control this situation has become. He is hopeful that criminal charges won’t be filed against him.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the nanny says that last Wednesday she went to pick Nahla up at school and she wasn’t there, so she went to Gabriel’s home.

“Gabriel and the nanny got into an argument because no one alerted her that Nahla didn’t go to school,” a source told RadarOnline.com.

The source went on to claim that Aubry allegedly verbally abused the nanny, before things took a turn for the physical.

“She picked up Nahla to leave and Gabriel yelled at her and shoved her out the door so hard that she hit the wall — while she had Nahla in her arms!” the source alleges, adding that the nanny claims the abuse is ongoing. The nanny filed a police report and Aubrey is now being investigated for misdemeanor battery and child endangerment.

[From Radar]

When someone issues a denial that starts with a question, it’s suspect to me. “Why would I do that?” is not the same as categorically saying “I didn’t do that,” although the source later claims that the nanny “tripped.”

Yesterday there was a court hearing in which Halle asked for an emergency “no contact” order for Gabriel and their daughter until the investigation into this incident was completed. TMZ reports that the judge left the custody arrangement “as is” and put off a ruling until the judge who has been handling this case returns from vacation. Radar has more information that “The Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services is expected to interview Berry, Aubry, and the nanny in the next several days.”

Let’s pretend that none of these people are famous and that we only know their situation and nothing else about them. You have a couple who went through an acrimonious divorce and who both love their daughter. The mother doesn’t want the father to have contact with his daughter at all and has actively worked to limit their contact. A nanny who works for the mother claims that the father yells a lot, is verbally abusive towards her and pushed her twice out the door, once with his daughter in her hands. Barring our feelings on whether the guy is abusive, and whether this is emotionally damaging to his child, is it enough to deny him all contact with his daughter? It’s a hard accusation to prove, so probably not. I could see supervised visitation continuing indefinitely, though.

Gabriel and Nahla are shown on 1-13, 1-9, 1-6 and 12-28. Credit: WENN.com

When Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry split, a lot of accusations were made both through the press and in court that Aubry was verbally abusive, that he screamed racial epithets at Halle, and that he may have been neglecting their daughter Nahla, now nearly four. There were only vague allegations of neglect in the press and the worst thing I think I read about Aubry was that he called Halle the N word and threw a chair against a wall. A lot of people questioned whether Halle was publicly maligning Aubry in order to make herself out to be the victim and bolster her custody case. Well a new story suggests that Aubry might have an explosive temper after all. A nanny has accused him of pushing her out the door and screaming at her – when she had Nahla in her arms.

Halle Berry’s baby daddy Gabriel Aubry is being investigated for criminal child endangerment and battery — over an incident involving his and Halle’s child … TMZ has learned.

According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, Gabriel allegedly pushed his nanny into a door while she held his daughter Nahla in her arms.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Gabriel was supposed to take 3-year-old Nahla to school Wednesday but decided to keep her home instead. The nanny — who worked for both Gabriel and Halle — went to the school to pick Nahla up and was told the child was a no-show.

According to the report, the nanny then went to Gabriel’s home, where she found Nahla. The nanny picked Nahla up and began to question Gabriel as to why he didn’t take the child to school.

According to the report, that’s when Gabriel allegedly flew into a rage — claiming, “You’re the f**king nanny. Who do you think you are? You are a nobody. You don’t need to f**king know anything.” The 6-foot-4 Gabriel then allegedly pushed the 5-foot-2 nanny out the door, Nahla in her arms.

The nanny filed a police report, claiming she was injured. Law enforcement sources tell us … police are investigating Gabriel for both misdemeanor child endangerment and misdemeanor battery.

The report lists the investigation as a battery, but law enforcement sources tell us they are “definitely investigating child endangerment.”

[From TMZ]

I read the police report (the PDF is here) and the blowup was over the nanny picking up Nahla, so that means that it’s Halle’s nanny too and there may be some history there. The accusations in the police report don’t sound as sordid as TMZ makes them out to be in their writeup (above) but that could just be due to the neutral way that police reports are written. They write “The susp(ect) [Aubry] then pushed the vict(im), who was still holding Nala [sic] in her arms and the vict fell against the wall, that was next to the susp[(ect's) front door. The vict stated that if the door was not there she would of [sic] fell to the ground with Nala in her arms.” I hope it wasn’t as bad as it sounds and that Nahla wasn’t traumatized by seeing her dad blow up at her nanny like that.

TMZ has a follow-up story that Halle is seeking a no contact ruling in court so that Aubry can’t see his daughter at all until the investigation for child endangerment associated with this case is complete. The nanny allegedly told police that “Gabriel repeatedly yelled and cursed at her, often while Nahla was present,” and that “Gabriel often yelled at Nahla, causing the child to cower and cry.” Then they add that the nanny claimed that “when Nahla had a rash he refused to treat it.” That’s a strange minor detail to add, isn’t it? Whatever is going on, I just feel sorry for Nahla.

Gabriel and Nahla are shown outside her school on 1-9, 1-11, 1-12 and 1-13. They pretty much get papped every day

Jennifer Lopez and her facially-challenged boyfriend Casper Smart are loved up all over the world. The message is clear: J.Lo, true to form and true to her relationship history, has moved on from Marc Anthony and quickly jumped into a serious relationship… with a 24-year-old backup dancer. As you can imagine, the super-controlling Marc Anthony is NOT pleased. One of the biggest issues seems to be that Jennifer is letting Casper spend time with twins Max and Emme. Marc doesn’t like it, and he’s planning on fighting Jennifer over every little custodial issue, at least according to Us Weekly:

It’s war! After what appeared to be a fairly civilized July split following seven years of marriage, things between Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are getting seriously ugly, multiple insiders tell the new Us Weekly, out now.

The catalyst? Lopez’s newfound love with Casper Smart, a 24-year-old backup dancer who’s already getting along swimmingly with Max and Emme, Lopez’s 3-year-old twins with Anthony, 43.

When the Latin crooner spotted photos of Lopez and Smart bonding with his son and daughter during a Thanksgiving vacation in Kauai, Hawaii, he “hit the roof,” one source says. “It caused a huge blowup.”

Anthony’s next move: Although he and Lopez, 42, already hammered out custody arrangements for the twins — ceding primary custody to the singer and American Idol judge — a close source tells Us he’s “going back on his word and saying his wants joint custody.”

His ultimate motive, says the source? “He wants to make Jennifer suffer because she’s having fun with someone new, and he knows this will hurt her on the deepest level.”

But Lopez, says another pal, is “ready to smash him if he tries anything…It’s getting vicious.”

[From Us Weekly]

This wouldn’t surprise me at all, actually. It’s all “amicable” and “look at us, we’re co-parenting!” until one of the parents gets a new partner, and then all hell breaks loose. Marc Anthony is rather douchey, that’s a given, and I believe he would make an issue out of the custody just as a way to “control” Jennifer. But! Jennifer introduced Casper to her kids WAY too soon, and I kind of feel like Marc does have the right to be upset. Also: I appreciate anything that can be done to separate Jennifer and that completely FUBAR backup dancer.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Brandi Glanville e-mailed us over the weekend to let us know her side of the “holiday custody battle” story. We heard a few days ago that Brandi threatened to have her ex, Eddie Cibrian, jailed if he took their two boys out of state for Christmas. Sources told Radar that Brandi is unreasonable, that Eddie has the right to take the boys out of state, and that he’s planning to go to Aspen with the boys and his new wife, LeAnn Rimes. Under the terms of their custody agreement, Brandi gets the boys on Christmas eve and Eddie gets them on Christmas Day. Brandi is frustrated because she was hoping to take her sons to visit her family, but has had to stay in Los Angeles for the past two years to hand the boys off to Eddie on Christmas Day.

Instead of e-mailing or speaking directly with her, Eddie still forces Brandi to go through his assistant to communicate with him. Brandi forwarded us some messages from late November between herself and the assistant. When Brandi brought up the issue of potentially bringing the boys to visit her family on Christmas, the assistant sent her a threatening message directly from Eddie saying that she would be held in contempt of court if she didn’t comply with the custody arrangement. The message was pretty harsh and said that there was no way that the judge would rule in her favor, and that Eddie wasn’t budging on the issue, essentially. At that point, Brandi fired off a text message directly to Eddie saying that he couldn’t take the kids out of state and that she would do the same thing to him – take him in front of a judge – if that happened. So Brandi was just responding to a threat that Eddie originally sent her, through his assistant. Only that one message from Brandi somehow got sent to the news outlets and then Brandi was being unreasonable and threatening Eddie with jail. It was more of a direct response to a threat that he first sent her.

Meanwhile LeAnn and Eddie were pawing all over each other over the weekend at a soccer game for Eddie’s son Mason, 8. You can see the pics here, and they’re ridiculous. Brandi was there too, and she was trying hard to just mind her own business while LeAnn was all “look at me” as usual. Brandi tweeted a response to someone asking a question about the game. She wrote “They are my children, I wouldn’t miss the last soccer game if I could help it.” And LeAnn made sure that the paps didn’t miss it while she played demonstrative “bonus mom” either.

Brandi is shown on 8/13 and 5/21. Credit: WENN and Fame

Mindy McCready is a 36 year-old country music singer who made headlines in 2008 when she claimed to have had an affair, starting when she was 15, with baseball great Roger Clements. She later attempted to cash in on the affair by releasing a sex tape with a boyfriend. She has several thankfully failed suicides attempt in her past, and she spent a month in jail in 2008 for violating probation on multiple charges including assault on her mother, DUI and attempting to buy Oxycontin with a fake prescription. She also was on celebrity rehab in 2009 but then had a possible overdose in 2010. So McCready is an addict and a mess, basically, and her mother was awarded custody of her five year old son as a result.

In the latest Mindy McCready news, she took her five year old son, Zander, from her father’s house in Florida to Tennessee. A judge in Florida has ruled that she must return Zander to her mother, Zander’s grandmother, by Thursday because his grandmother has custody of him. According to McCready, everything is fine though, because the kid is hers, she owns him, and she skyped with the sheriff’s office to explain that. Also, McCready claims she can’t go back to Florida because she’s either five months or seven months pregnant with twins, depending on which outlet she’s talking to. The AP has an interview with her in which she says she’s nearly seven months while People Magazine talked to her rep who confirmed that she’s five months along. So according to McCready she was able to take the boy from Florida just last week, but she can’t return him this week since she’s pregnant. It doesn’t matter though since her son is her property anyway, and also because her mother was supposedly abusing Zander, which she denies.

Mindy McCready tells Access Hollywood that despite reports, she and her 5-year-old son are not missing.

“I am working with lawyers to try to get all this straightened out,” she told Access Hollywood in an e-mail on Wednesday. “I did not steal my child, as it would be impossible for me to kidnap what already belongs to me! There never was any missing persons report and never an Amber Alert.”

According to the Associated Press, however, the Department of Children and Families said a missing persons report was filed in Florida on Tuesday.

The DCF told the AP that the report was filed after the singer took her son, Zander, from the singer’s father’s home. McCready’s mother reportedly has custody of the child.

A judge has ordered McCready to return Zander by Thursday, the AP reported. – Access Hollywood

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Country singer Mindy McCready said Wednesday she will probably not be able to bring her 5-year-old son back to Florida to fulfill a judge’s order by Thursday afternoon— because she is nearly 7 months pregnant with twins. By not returning as ordered, she risks arrest.

Speaking exclusively to The Associated Press, McCready said that she and her mother have had a long custody battle in Florida over Zander. Her mother was awarded guardianship in 2007.

The battle became more public this week, when the Florida Department of Children and Families said a missing person report was filed with police after McCready took Zander from her father’s home. McCready was able to visit with the boy there under a court order and the 36-year-old singer said she had spent much of the past month with her son at the home. Her mother and father are divorced.

McCready alleges that her son suffered abuse while living at her mother’s home and that is one of the reasons why she left with the boy last week.

“I’m a mom first,” said McCready from Nashville, Tenn. “No matter what happens, I’m going to protect my kid. If I have to go to jail, so be it.”

When reached at her Lee County home Wednesday night, McCready’s mother, Gayle Inge, said the abuse allegations are “absolutely not true.”

During the interview with the AP, a tearful McCready recounted a messy and confusing tale of court custody battles and family fights. McCready is suing her mother and a tabloid newspaper for libel in a Palm Beach County court.

On Tuesday, DCF discovered that McCready and the boy were not at her father’s home and a judge ruled she must return him voluntarily by 5 p.m. Thursday or risk an arrest warrant.

According to Aimee McLaughlin of the Childrens Network of Southwest Florida, a case manager filed a missing person report with the Cape Coral Police on Tuesday. The DCF spokesman said Children’s Network of Southwest Florida is the Community-Based Care agency for the area.

McCready said she was under the impression that the Florida judge was transferring the custody case to Tennessee and that it wouldn’t be a problem if she brought him there.

McCready, who was born in Florida and found fame in Nashville as a singer in the 1990s, said she left with her son to the Tennessee city before Thanksgiving.

Both McCready and her mother agree that a Florida judge had heard testimony during court hearings at the end of October and early November regarding the singer regaining custody of Zander. Both women agree that the judge had not yet ruled and that he said for now, the boy should remain with his grandmother.

Cape Coral Police Lt. Tony Sizemore said McCready called the department via Skype on Wednesday. – AP

[From Access Hollywood and AP via Times News]

What the hell kind of mother talks about their kid like that? “I did not steal my child, as it would be impossible for me to kidnap what already belongs to me.” She’s talking about her five year old son as if he’s some thing that she owns, like a coat she left somewhere. This woman is an addict and she’s twisting reality to suit her purposes. The sad thing is that she’s about to have two more kids to mess up, if it’s even true that she’s pregnant. It sounds like a detail she added to try and avoid prosecution.

Mindy is shown at a CMA meet and greet in June, 2010. Credit: WENN.com

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry’s war of attrition has not ended. It’s just gotten somewhat more low-key, although I’m of the opinion that Halle is still waging a PR campaign against Gabriel in the tabloids. One of the most recent items ended up in Star Magazine last month, in which a “witness” claimed that Gabriel had used racist slurs against Halle in the heat of an argument, and that Gabriel always denied that Nahla was anything other than white. Those arguments are consistent with what Halle’s team claimed in the heat of their custody dispute, and unfortunately for all involved (especially Nahla), it looks like some of the claims are sticking. Halle and Gabriel’s lawyers met once again in court on Monday to work out some kinks in the custody agreement. As the agreement stands now, Gabriel is not allowed to have unsupervised overnight custody of Nahla – and Gabriel’s lawyers wanted that changed. Gabriel’s lawyers did not win.

The custody battle between Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry over their beautiful daughter, Nahla, wages on with no visible end in sight.

Attorneys for the warring couple were back in court Monday in Los Angeles, and it was a sweet victory for the 45-year-old actress, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Aubry had requested an amendment to his visitation rights, which currently insist that the bulk of his time with his three-year-old daughter be supervised by a third party, but the judge ruled in favor of Berry, who was opposing any change.

Aubry is allowed three hours alone time with Nahla, where he can take her to the park or carry out an activity, but the order remains that the nanny must be present at all other times, especially during overnight stays.

A source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com that Gabriel is furious over not being allowed to care for his daughter on his own and that he feels the nanny is encroaching on his relationship with Nahla, and supervising their every move.

Meanwhile, Gabriel is currently overseas in Majorca, caretaking Nahla while Berry works on her new movie, Cloud Atlas. As per the couple’s custody agreement, Berry must arrange accommodation for Aubry during these times and it must be of the same standard as she is being afforded — so if Halle is staying in a five star hotel, Gabriel must be given the same.

[From Radar]

TMZ’s report is similar, so I think this is what really went down. TMZ’s source also says that “Gabriel is pissed — and he feels the nanny is ruining his relationship with his daughter.” Here’s a question, and I mean this in all honesty, with no agenda: what does it say about Gabriel Aubry that the court won’t let him have unsupervised visits with Nahla? Is it just a simple technicality, like Nahla is so young, and that the status will change when she gets older? Or does it speak to some kind of truth in Halle’s claims? Look, I definitely think Halle is crazy. But it bothers me that the court system seems to be backing her up, and it makes me think there might be some shred of truth to her claims. Is that crazy?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

That title really doesn’t capture the alleged accusations against Gabriel Aubry in new custody papers unearthed by Star Magazine. The way Star phrases it, the accusations sound really sordid. The thing is, we’ve heard the exact same things about Halle, and we’ve also heard this about Gabriel before along with a lot of conflicting reports about how they were each terrible people so it’s hard to know what to believe. I would bet that their relationship is rocky and that they screamed and yelled before they called it quits, but it probably was in no way as one sided as this makes it sound at all. I also don’t buy Gabriel as this broody, emotionally distant person who forgets to bring presents for his daughter’s birthday and didn’t care about Halle’s pregnancy. Just the fact that he’s fought so hard for custody shows otherwise. Custody can get complicated and messy, and it’s obvious that both sides are slinging accusations. Here’s what Star claims, which I believe Halle could have definitely accused Gabriel of in the court papers. I doubt it went down like this at all.

Halle Berry’s ex Gabriel Aubry threw a chair against the wall and called [Halle] the N word during a violent confrontation last February, a Los Angeles court has been told.

Star has learned that new witnesses have made these and other explosive accusations against the Canadian-born male model in court documents as the couple’s custody battle over 3-year-old daughter Nahla continues. And these witnesses are shedding new light on the couple’s final blowout – a confrontation that sparked one of Hollywood’s most toxic conflicts.

Two months before their April 2010 split, Halle, 45, returned to Los Angeles after a trip to San Francisco, and sources say it was anything but a happy homecoming. “Gabriel was there, and Halle told him to leave or she would call the police,” a colleague of Halle’s, who has seen the court documents reveals.

“He screamed that she was a ‘ghetto n****r’ and threw a chair against the wall,” the source says. “Halle was shaken and sobbing.”

Sadly, such before was not uncommon for Gabriel during the couple’s nearly five-year relationship, the new witnesses claim. Gabriel allegedly insulted and attacked valets, waitresses, nannies, Halle – and even their daughter.

“Gabriel hated that Nahla was mixed race,” a colleague of Halle’s claims. “He never wanted her hair to be braided, and he always said that Nahla was white. Friends tried to get him to understand that being mixed was part of her and Halle’s heritage, but he wouldn’t hear it…”

“Approximately six months after they started seeing each other, their sex life dwindled,” the insider reveals. “They rarely had sex, but Gabriel loved to watch porn…”

“He didn’t show any enthusiasm about the pregnancy,” the insider explains. “He didn’t help pick out baby names, help Halle relax, anything. His whole life was about playing golf. And when Nahla was born, he wasn’t any help either.

At Nahla’s second birthday party [in March 2010] “Gabriel didn’t even bring a gift for Nahla, and he was rude and stand-offish to the guests…

“He brought Nahla to her room and made her take a nap so everyone would leave!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 10, 2011]

This is in Star, which doesn’t mean it’s false although it definitely could be. I’m thinking that what happened was that one of Star’s court sources dug up some stuff from this case that’s from earlier this year, when all these claims were flying around in the press. I’m really hoping that these two have reached some sort of truce for Nayla’s sake, but I think that the last we heard they were still duking it out in court, with Halle winning some sort of judgment to bring Nahla with her on set. So the accusations could be new for all we know, even if this happened back in February.

Here’s Halle out in Majorca on 9/12/11 with her boyfriend, Oliver Martinez, and Nahla. She recently broke her foot while filming there. Oliver was spotted out with a cane too. I wonder what’s going on there. Gabriel and Nahla are shown out on 8/10/11 and 8/17/11.

Credit: Kadena Press/WENN.com

When Kaiser ran the Tony Awards pictures yesterday she wrote that she thought that Kelsey Grammer’s young jumpoff, Kayte Walsh, was probably pregnant since she looked a little bumpy in her white silk dress. (Kayte sadly miscarried Kelsea’s baby last year.) Now we have a bunch of supporting quotes from Kelsey and Kayte about how they want kids and how Kelsey is this great dad. Kelsey even goes on to disparage his ex wife Camille, in a roundabout way, saying that he won’t “play out my personal life in front of the cameras.” ORLY? What about the reality show production company he started? It bugs me, and it’s typical for this faux blue blood douche.

What’s more is that Kelsea has filed for primary custody of one of his children with Camille, his son Jude who turns seven in August. He hasn’t filed for primary custody of his daughter Mason, nine, though. He calls the reports that he’s only after custody of the son “bullsh*t” despite the fact that there are official court documents to back it up.

Here are the lovey-dovey quotes from Kelsea and Kayte, from various sources.

On his marriage
“[It's] like it’s never happened before,” the actor told reporters of his “fantastic” marriage before Sunday’s Tony Awards at New York’s Beacon Theater.

The former Tony-nominee, who presented at this year’s ceremony, had Walsh, 29, by his side just a year after he walked the red carpet with now ex-wife Camille Grammer.

On the best part of their life together
As for the best part of his life with Walsh, the two agree: “[It's] waking up together,” Grammer, 56, told PEOPLE.

Added Walsh: “And going to bed together. He’s just … perfect.”

On his kids and having another one
The actor plans to spend Father’s Day with Mason, 9, and Jude, 6, his children with Camille. “I think we’re going to have a barbeque,” he said, adding that his kids are “very excited” about the possibility of one day having more siblings.

“They’re very, very cool about it,” Grammer told reporters. “My son, Jude, especially, he’s like, ‘When are the children coming?’ ” – People

On not doing a reality show
“I made a conscious decision that I wouldn’t play out my personal life in front of the cameras. That’s just respectful for the situation and respectful to Kayte, as well.”

On his custody battle
“It’s going to be a long, drawn-out thing,” he revealed to Life & Style about the custody battle. “We’ll be tortured and it will be unpleasant I’m sure, but not on my side.” – Life & Style

Kayte gushes about Kelsey
“He’s such a good father. I’ve never known a man like him,” Walsh says of Grammer, dad to daughter Mason and son Jude. “He’s just so full of love and he’s wonderful. You couldn’t ask for more.” – US Weekly

[From People, Life & Style, US Weekly]

So Kelsey and Kayte talked to every outlet that was at the Tony Awards about how they’re so happy together, are ready to have more kids and about how wrenching Kelsey’s son away from Camille is this huge ordeal for Kelsey. Remember last year at the Tony Awards, when Kelsey made Camille come to support him and then said during a toast afterwards that was shown on RHOBH that he was grateful for the support he was getting from his fans, and that “I’m particularly thrilled with the love I’m getting from the British people?” Kayte is of course British. Kelsey is slime, and he’ll do whatever it takes to malign Camille after he cheated on her. Camille is a piece of work don’t get me wrong, but no one deserves to be treated like that. Kelsey is the one who told Camille to do Real Housewives and he’s the one who started a reality show production company but now he’s trying to act like he’s taking the high road in regards to doing a reality show. We’re not buying it. He may be able to talk a good game, but he really showed his true colors by how he’s treated Camille and has continued to treat her after 14 years of marriage.

Photos are from 6/12/11. Credit: WENN.com

Oksana Grigorieva has dropped the domestic violence portion of her complaint against Mel Gibson. Rumor has it that she’s doing it to show the judge that she’s serious about peacefully negotiating custody of her 18 month-old daughter with Mel, Lucia. Of course this leaves the field wide open for people to get judgy about Oksana and claim that Mel never hit her, despite the fact that we’ve heard audio of him admitting to it and saying she deserved it, he’s admitted to slapping her, and we saw photos of the “alleged” damage he did. Maybe Oksana just wants to move on at this point, and she could be sick of paying her high priced lawyers as well.

TMZ and Radar have conflicting reports about this, since TMZ’s sources are obviously Mel’s people and Radar’s source is Oksana. TMZ claims that Oksana is bothering Mel and trying to talk to him when they have custody handoffs, and if that’s the case it sounds perfectly reasonable. They’re trying to co-parent a child together and she probably has a few things she wants to discuss with Mel about their daughter.

Radar quotes a source who says that Oksana “has no interest in communicating directly with Mel or getting back together with him. She doesn’t see the need to speak with him.” Their source (Oksana) goes on to say that while Oksana did let a protection order against Mel lapse, she’s only doing it to show that she has Lucia’s best interests in mind. They also remind us “that she walked away from a $15 million settlement, too, because she is a good parent.”

I’m team toddler on this one. After watching some interviews with Oksana I understand the criticism against her. She didn’t appear truly frightened or genuine and her story was somewhat sketchy. It seems unfair to nitpick her, though, and to say that she’s not acting the victim role well enough. The tapes had Mel saying some outrageous threatening things and there’s no excuse for what he said or did to her. That was despicable and clearly abusive.

Before I read these reports that Oksana and Mel weren’t communicating I assumed they were back together, however. Mike Walker reported in the National Enquirer two weeks ago that a witness saw Oksana and Mel holding hands in Malibu. He wrote:

According to a reliable source who was out running around in the Malibu hills area known as Serra Retreat, he suddenly turned a corner and ran smack into mercurial movie star Mel Gibson – who was strolling peacefully and affectionately arm-in-arm with ex-mistress/baby-momma/supposed mortal enemy Oksana Grigorieva… My source, who knows Mel slightly but is not a professional reporter, did not dare ask the burning question: “Why?” Mel, who owns two homes in the area, just nodded and moved on.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column May 2, 2011]

If that’s true it kind of puts this whole thing into perspective doesn’t it?

Oksana is shown out with Lucia on 3/10/11. Credit: Fame. Mel is shown outside of court on 3/11/11. Credit: WENN

Over the past week, Halle Berry has been getting pap’d constantly. It was getting to the point where I was wondering if there was another big build-up in access to her in exchange for various media outlets getting strategic “leaks” about Gabriel Aubry’s alleged abuse and racism. Well… that still might happen, but for now I’m cautiously optimistic. TMZ reports that Halle and Gabriel were in court yesterday, and that they are close to finalizing their custodial agreement for Nahla.

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry just left the L.A. County Courthouse, after trying to finalize a custody settlement with the judge.

TMZ was in the courtroom when Judge Mark Juhas said to Gabriel and his lawyers, “We’re making huge progress. We need to stick with it.”

Halle and her lawyers, Neal Hersh and Judy Bogen, went into chambers to talk with the judge. Before that, Gabriel and his lawyers, Gary Fishbein and Kristina Royce, went into chambers to jawbone with hizzoner.

We’re told it’s all part of a settlement conference over Nahla’s custody and visitation. The major stumbling block has been Halle’s acting schedule, which takes her out of town from time to time.

From what happened this AM, it looks like Halle and Gabriel are on the verge of an agreement — and a truce.

[From TMZ]

Am I the only one peeved by this news? I mean, I appreciate that Halle and Gabe are both FINALLY acting like adults and keeping their personal dramas quiet, but on the other side, I remember all the crap Halle said about Gabriel, and it bothers me that no one else is bringing it up. If Gabe was such a horrible, abusive, neglectful racist, why is are the final custodial discussions going so smoothly? Shouldn’t Halle be fighting harder? Unless she was just making that stuff up completely, right? So… why isn’t that being addressed? Is it because everybody’s just happy that Halle’s Crazy is subdued for now? What happens when it rears up again?

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