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Halle Berry & Olivier Martinez Are Divorcing

Well, it turns out the third time isn’t a charm at all, at least not for Halle Berry. Her third marriage is over, as Berry filed for divorce from Olivier Martinez on Monday after only two years of marriage. Apparently she filed the document using pseudonyms, with herself listed as “Hal Maria” and Olivier listed as “Oliver Martin”, and that may complicate things since it may or may not be entirely legal to petition a divorce with fake names. With that in mind, Olivier likely thinks he has the upper hand, as he filed his own divorce against Halle later the same day, and if Halle’s doesn’t stand, he’ll officially be the petitioner. Uh oh! Martinez cites “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split in his petition, and he asks for joint custody of their 2-year-old son, Maceo. It’s unclear if there’s any kind of financial settlement involved here, but they did release a joint statement to US Weekly about their split: “It is with a heavy heart that we have come to the decision to divorce. We move forward with love and respect for one another and the shared focus for what is best for our son. We wish each other nothing but happiness in life, and we hope that you respect our, and most importantly our children’s privacy, as we go through this difficult period.” I guess it’s a shame? I don’t know, it’s kind of the reason you never get married just because you actually got knocked up – it never ends well. Hopefully the kid doesn’t suffer in all this – that’s the main thing. Follow us on Twitter | Facebook The post Halle Berry & Olivier Martinez Are Divorcing appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Halle Berry says Gabriel Aubry is a deadbeat living off her child support payments

Oh snap. Halle Berry is currently paying former boyfriend and baby daddy Gabriel Aubry a cool $16,000 per month towards taking care of their daughter Nahla, of whom he has part-time custody. However, Halle has gone to court to ask a judge to cut those payments down since Gabriel is apparently a deadbeat who is living entirely off Halle’s money. From TMZ: TMZ has learned … Berry filed legal docs asking the judge in their custody case to reduce her monthly child support obligation from $16,000 a month to just over $3,000 a month. Halle claims in her legal docs … Gabriel has stopped working and is content to live off of the child support, and that’s an abuse of the system. She notes Gabriel is perfectly capable of getting a job … and by reducing the support it will allow 6-year-old Nahla to live a comfortable life … supplemented by his income. Halle and Gabriel have joint custody … each has the kid around 50% of the time. We contacted Gabriel’s rep … so far, no word back. Not feeling deadbeats of any kind. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that anyone at any point decided that a child would ever need $16,000 a month in care, anyway. Even if you were taking them to restaurants every night (which… no) and buying them new clothes every month, it would not total anywhere near that amount of money. No wonder he’s living large. He needs to get a job, though, and the child support SHOULD be cut down – not only to prevent him from living the easy life, but because NO CHILD NEEDS THAT MUCH CARE, especially not when she’s only with him 50% of the time anyway.