Last month, Halle Berry made some shady comments about how she doesn’t “owe” men anything, and there was some conversation about how, actually, California family courts have repeatedly ordered Halle to pay one man, her ex, Gabriel Aubry. I wondered, at the time, why Halle was even referencing the Aubry drama (however obliquely) considering she spent the past five years or so rehabilitating her image after their custody and child support war. As it turns out, that child support issue was on her mind at the time. Halle and Gabriel have updated their child support arrangement now that their daughter Nahla is 13 years old, and presumably now that Halle is making less income too.
Halle Berry has just had her monthly child support owed to her ex, Gabriel Aubry, in support of their 13-year-old daughter, cut in HALF. Sources close to the situation tell The Blast, the “X-Men” actress and Aubry recently negotiated a settlement in their ongoing child support case, after arguing over the amount.
As of March 1, 2021, Halle Berry will now pay her ex $8,000 a-month. As we reported, Halle was previously ordered to pay Gabriel $16,000 a month in child support. In the ex-couple’s new agreement, Halle will pay “retroactive” support Gabriel in the amount of $85,000 and agreed to continue to pay Nahla’s private school tuition and health insurance.
In the new agreement, Halle will also pay Gabriel additional child support if her income exceeds 1.95 million in a given year, and she must also contribute $5,000 to Gabriel’s attorney’s fees and costs.
The ex-couple are both represented by high-powered attorneys in the deal. Gabriel is represented by Mark P. Gross of Brot Gross Fishbein, and Halle is represented by Marina Zakiyan of Beck of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside.
Going forward, Halle and Gabriel agreed to exchange annual income information, which will include complete income and expense declarations, tax returns, and profit and loss statements. The good news, they also have agreed to attempt to settle future disputes through a private judge, to keep this case out of courts.
I’m sure Halle is happy that she got the monthly support cut in half, but I’m super-curious about the fact that she has to pay back-support. Did she refuse to pay his support for six months or something? It sounds like it. As much as Halle’s defenders will call this an unqualified win, it’s quite common in family law for there to be updates to the support agreements depending on fluctuations in income. It’s far more likely that Halle gets to pay less to Gabriel these days because she’s simply not making as much money as she used to. Jeremy Renner claimed the same thing in his (still-ongoing) dispute with his ex-wife Sonni Pacheco – he went to court to cry poverty and say that he shouldn’t have to pay her so much (reportedly around $30K a month) while he wasn’t working as consistently.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
I haven’t followed this
Does he have full custody or is it a joint situation?
Joint.
She’s always bugged me and I’m not sure why. Gorgeous. Talented. Just makes my nose tickle smelling her drama.
I do think child support should consider what debts and living costs the wealthier parent has to deal with, but as long as it’s enforced the same for both fathers and mothers, I don’t have much problem with the law. More often I think the problem is resentment: people don’t want their ex benefiting from them financially. But unless it’s an abusive relationship…get over it lol. You’re adults. You agreed to a legal contract. There are lots of ways to avoid having kids, more than people like to pretend there are, and if you aren’t prepared for the responsibility, don’t have them lol.
You’re telling no lies – yup, yup, yup on all counts!
Agreed Veronica !