Halle Berry loses custody battle to ex-husband Olivier Martinez – NBC Los Angeles

A choose has awarded main custody of Halle Berry’s 13-year-old son, Maceo, to the actress’ former husband, Olivier Martinez, following a multiday closed listening to, in response to court docket papers obtained.
Los Angeles Superior Court docket Decide Shelley L. Kaufman rejected Berry’s request to revive the previous 50/50 shared custody association and dominated that Berry can not have in a single day visits with the boy.
Nevertheless, the choose dissolved the momentary home violence restraining order that Martinez had beforehand sought to make a everlasting order in opposition to Berry.
Martinez, 60, had alleged that Maceo despatched him texts saying that Berry abused him whereas he was enjoying a digital actuality sport and that she has additionally beforehand been hostile towards him. Berry denied Martinez’s accusations.
“I’ve by no means bodily, emotionally or in any other case abused Maceo,” Berry, additionally 60, mentioned in her court docket papers. “I’m a sufferer of home violence and I assist victims of home violence. I’m not a perpetrator of violence. I might by no means harm our youngster.”
The divorce between Martinez and Berry was finalized in 2023 after an eight-year battle.
