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It seems that actress Halle Berry and ex-lover Gabriel Aubry have decided to put aside their differences and have reached an agreement that is in the best interest of their 4-year-old daughter Nahla.

Halle and Gabriel have been  running back and forth to court since the Thanksgiving Day showdown  occurred between Gabriel and Halle’s fiance Oliver Martinez in her driveway, which resulted in both men being treated in the emergency room for injuries sustained during the brawl and Gabriel eventually in police custody. Since the altercation, Halle was granted a temporary restraining order that prohibited Gabriel from coming within 100 feet of her, Oliver, and Nahla. The temporary order expired Tuesday and Halle sought to make it permanent. Gabriel wasn’t having it, as the order would have ultimately kept him from seeing his child, so the two have been duking it out in family court ever since. Until yesterday, that is. It is being reported by E! News that after two days of courtroom drama, the two have put an end to the ugly custody dispute.

While exact details of the agreement have not been revealed, Halle’s attorney, Blair Berk is said to have passed E! News a handwritten note after emerging from the courtroom that read:

“The parties have reached an amicable agreement. There will be no further statement on the matter.”

I’m sure Halle and Gabriel are both letting out huge sighs of relief as it looked like this could get extremely ugly(ier) and appeared as if the situation had the potential to drag on forever. Hopefully the two will continue to work together with Nahla’s best interest always being first priority since she is the one who is most effected by their constant disputing and attempts at hurting each other. One source even shared with US Weekly that they seemed to be using Nahla as a “pawn” and that she was suffering because of it. Hopefully these parents have seen the error of their ways.

Do you believe Halle and Gabriel have put the drama behind them?

Jazmine Denise is a writer living in New York. Follow her on Twitter @jazminedenise

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Mmm mmm mmmm. The Halle Berry-Gabriel Aubry ratchgedy just keeps getting deeper and deeper. A lot of us have been questioning why everyone involved in this saga’s feelings are so intense all these years after Halle and Gabriel split and their daughter Nahla was born. Obviously there’s a child involved but emotions seem to be running just a tad deeper than that and a new detail revealed in Gabriel’s restraining order may help explain all of that. It appears the model has not just been fighting with the mother of his child and her fiance, he is arguing with his ex-wife.

Extra TV got a hold of the restraining order paperwork he filed asking for a protection order against Oliver after he whooped him something terrible, and when it came to a question asking for the relationship to protected person, the line reads:

“Fiancé of petitioner’s ex-wife”

That’s quite interesting since many from the outside have not just labeled Gabriel a “baby daddy” but have looked at him as nothing more than a donor who came along with the right genes at the right time to fulfill Halle’s wish of becoming a mother. We obviously knew the two were involved more than just in between the sheets but it appears they weren’t just girlfriend and boyfriend during that time, but possibly husband and wife because I can’t think of any logical (or illogical) explanation for why Gabriel would refer to Halle as his ex-wife in a legal document if it weren’t true.

While we wait for confirmation on that front, one thing that has been semi-determined about this threesome is that criminal charges against Gabriel are “highly unlikely.” Law enforcement sources told TMZ the consensus on the Thanksgiving altercation between Halle’s ex-husband (?) and fiance is that it was “mutual combat.” So far it’s not clear if he’ll be quite as lucky when it comes to the restraining order against him though. The protection order is supposed to expire tomorrow but Halle could go back to court and request a new one. I have a hunch that she’ll do just that. But while we wait for that news what do you think about this latest development?

Do you think Halle and Gabe were secretly married?

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Last week we reported that Halle Berry’s fiance Oliver Martinez and her daughter’s father, Gabriel Aubry both wound up in the Emergency Room after they got into a tussle on Thanksgiving when Gabriel showed up at Halle’s home to drop off Nahla. The saga seems to only continue this week as TMZ is reporting that Halle will be heading to court sometime this week to seek a permanent restraining order against Aubry. When the incident first occurred, the judge issued a temporary restraining order which restricted Gabriel from coming within 100 feet of Halle, Nahla and Oliver; however, that order expires this Tuesday.

It is being said that Halle is extremely concerned that didn’t have enough control to refrain from trying to fight Oliver in front of Nahla and that him being around her child poses a huge risk because he didn’t think clearly enough about his actions and the emotional trauma that he could have potentially caused Nahla.

After last week’s incident, both men were released from the hospital, but Gabriel found himself in police custody where he was booked for misdemeanor battery but was let go after he made bail, which was set at $20,000. Thankfully Nahla did not witness the scuffle.

While Gabriel and Oliver could have handled their differences in a more mature manner, trying to get a judge to issue a permanent restraining order against the man that would prevent him from seeing his child is a little extreme. However, as ugly as things got between Halle and Gabriel during their custody battle I guess an occurrence of this magnitude was almost inevitable. I’m not sure what it is with celebrities always seeking to keep the other parent from seeing their children once the relationship goes south but it seems to be a very spiteful and vindictive trend that only serves as a major injustice to the children in the long run.

Hopefully Gabriel can seek some help for his temper and he and Halle will learn to work through their differences for Nahla’s sake.

Do you believe Halle’s attempt to get a permanent restraining order against Gabriel is reasonable?

Jazmine Denise is a writer living in New York. Follow her on Twitter @jazminedenise

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Halle Berry doesn’t talk much about Halle, the biracial girl from Cleveland, OH, whose been labeled “crazy” for failings in love. We usually hear about the next movie she’s working on, how she stays forever young at 46, and maybe a thing or two about her being a parent. But in an interview with the NY Times, Ms. Berry is being very open about where she came from and who she’s become over the years, and even a bit about her custody battle with her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. Check out some of the highlights of the article as well as the gorgeous photos.

Why she’s made bad choices with men

“My picker’s broken. God just wanted to mix up my life. Maybe he was thinking, ‘This girl can’t get everything! I’m going to give her a broken picker.’ ”

 On Self-esteem not having anything to do with your looks

“Just because they see my face doesn’t mean they see me. A person’s self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

“If it’s true that I’m beautiful, I’m proof of that. Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

“I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. It gave me a way to show who I was without being angry or violent. By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity. I’d turned things around.”

 The role her mother played in her development

“My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn’t matter as much as how I would be perceived

“My mother tried hard. But there was no substitute for having a black woman I could identify with, who could teach me about being black.”

 Being biracial

“Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.”

“I come from humble beginnings. I always felt like the underdog. Behind the eight ball. I learned not to be too high on the hog. Even that night I won the Oscar, I had a fundamental knowing, it was just a moment in time. Driving home that night, back to my house, I felt like Cinderella. I said, ‘When this night is over, I’m going back to who I was.’ And I did.”

Why she wants to leave America

“I can’t grow my daughter in L.A. You take a little child who is just trying to learn about the world and have all these people with cameras chasing after her, calling things out to her about her mother. It’s starting to make her feel special and different. I want her to feel special and different, but not for the reason of being my child.”

Source: NY Times

Source: NY Times

What do you think?

What drama? Kelis and Nas came together over the weekend to help their son Knight ring in his third birthday! The party was a mix of pool party fun and face painting, and someone looked like he was having a ball with his cute self (same goes to you Nas). Check out little man all smiles on his big day and spending a special moment with his dad…

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In other cute-ness, Tia Mowry posted a Twit pic recently of her one-year-old son Cree finally walking in his onesie and sandals. She had this to say: “Guess who’s walking!! #proudmomma”

The famous twin also posted a picture of her cute hubby with Cree as they played around in the pool during a recent trip to Hawaii. Little man is growing up fast!

Twitter: Tia Mowry Hardrict

Twitter: Tia Mowry Hardrict

The Daily Mail

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Halle Berry probably can’t get out of the United States fast enough now that she’s been ordered to pay Gabriel Aubry almost a quarter of a million dollars in child support each year.

Part of the former couple’s ongoing custody battle was settled in court on Monday when, according to TMZ, Halle Berry was ordered to pay Gabriel $20,000/month in child support. Gabriel basically got exactly what he wanted. In March, he requested $15K-$20K to maintain their daughter Nahla’s lifestyle. Though he was also wanting additional funds to take Nahla to see his family in Canada, considering he was granted the high-end of his request, I think the judge imagines he can manage to scrape up airfare out of $20,000. If Gabriel decided to never be snapped by a photographer ever again he could pretty much live a normal life off of this support alone.

One issue that hasn’t been settled yet is whether Halle can pack up and move Nahla to Paris like she’s been wanting . TMZ says these two will soon be back in court to battle that out and have a judge make his ruling. In the meantime, Gabriel will be enjoying this not so small victory.

What do you think about this child support order?

Brande Victorian is the News and Operations Editor for MadameNoire.com. Follow her on Twitter @Be_Vic.

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From NecoleBitchie.com

Somebody is gonna get hurt fooling around with Halle Berry and her child…

She’s absolutely fed up with the paparazzi, who has been hounding her ever since she gave birth to her daughter Nahla. Just recently, things began to get really bad for her after she started dating her new man, Oliviera Martinez, while going through a nasty child custody battle with her child’s father, Gabriel Aubrey.  The paparazzi literally stalk her home and her child’s school every day in hopes of a good moneyshot, and Halle has had enough!

Earlier this year, she asked the judge in her child custody case for permission to move to France where the paparazzi laws are stricter, however he denied her request because it would be harder for Gabriel to see his child. Last week, things came to a boiling point for Halle, and she went ape sh-t outside of her daughter’s school. She was caught on camera pointing, screaming and acting like a mad woman at the paparazzi while accusing them of stalking.  In a recent interview with Extra TV’s Mario Lopez she explained why she went off and says that she is about to call up the President real quick and see if he can help her out:

“I hate that I lost my cool, but you know, I’m human. That happens and when it comes to my daughter — I’m ferocious. There are no laws here that protect our children and as a mom, coming to the school… not only my child, but all the children that are there. It’s just wrong, wrong, wrong.”

“You know, I think I’m going to call Obama and say ‘look, can you help us?’ I know this seems like a little issue right now, but it’s a big issue in our lives and our lives at the school and our children being protected.”

Watch the video of Halle telling the paps off and see what she had to say Mario Lopez about the issue at Necole Bitchie.com

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Between wanting to move to France and potentially having to pay Gabriel Aubry up to $20,000 a month in child support, it would be safe to assume that now is not the time to be up in Halle Berry or her daughter Nahla’s face with a camera. Unfortunately for her, those circumstances bring the paparazzi running and when they showed up at Nahla’s LA school yesterday snapping pics, Halle went off—all the way off.

It’s a shame this wasn’t a TMZ situation so we could have some audio, but from the looks on Halle’s face and her body language, I think it’s clear her words were NSFW. Assistant by her side, Halle demanded that the cameramen leave the school premises, and though you might think the actress should be used to the stalking by now, a source close to her told E! that lately the photographers have gotten out of hand.

 ”It is inappropriate for these people to stalk a child’s school everyday. They pushed too far [today],” the source said. “Halle felt that her daughter was being threatened. Having words with someone who is stalking your family is not out of line.”

I’m hoping 4-year-old Nahla was still in a classroom somewhere oblivious to all that was popping off in the parking lot. I imagine seeing her mother like that could be a bit distressing but one thing we can probably bet is that the paparazzi won’t be popping up at her school again (or at least for another day or two).

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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I’ll be honest. When I read that Gabriel Aubry was requesting up to $20,000 a month from Halle Berry to support his daughter’s lifestyle the first thought that came to mind was, what kind of man are you? Despite whatever difference in earnings comes along with being an Academy Award winning actress versus a Wilhelmina model, I wanted what Gabriel has between his legs to make him say, as a man, I refuse to let a woman support me. Because let’s face it, that’s essentially what Halle would be doing.

I don’t know the specifics of this ex-couple’s co-parenting deal, but I know that it doesn’t take a minimum of $15,000 a month to entertain a 3-year-old that you’re only taking care of half the time. That money would no doubt go toward a home he’d live in year-round, his own wardrobe—considering he wants Halle to give him money to pay for Nahla’s, and who knows what else. And it’s not just that he supposedly wants to maintain the lifestyle that his toddler daughter has become accustomed to, he also wants Halle to pay for trips for him and his daughter to visit his family. If you can’t even buy a plane ticket to Canada and keep a decent roof over your head should you have any type of custodial rights at all?

But, just because Gabriel is a man does that mean if the shoe was on the other gender’s foot, I be jumping up and down saying, “girl, get yours?” Not necessarily. We see these women every day, they’re on VH1 and Bravo calling themselves wives when they’re really just a woman who gave birth to a well-paid athlete’s child when, probably like Gabriel, they thought their relationship was the real deal, and now they’re sitting pretty. The difference is they have sole custody of their children and the fathers, at the very least, should contribute to their child’s financial wellbeing as their parental obligation. Do most women get more than what’s needed to raise a couple of kids these days? Probably so. Do I fault them for it? Not really. While these women could most certainly “get a job” like we often say they need to do, do some of their backgrounds really suggest they’re qualified to do anything other than ask would you like cheese with that? Gabriel, on the other hand, modeled for Versace, DKNY, and Valentino, and he holds a modeling contract with an agency in Milan. This man could work and maintain a lifestyle similar to Halle Berry’s if he wanted to, but he doesn’t, and that’s why I question his manhood in some respects. I mean I thought men prided themselves on being able to provide. Is that passe now?

I can admit that this is a double standard, and it’s one we as a society enforce regularly. When Vanessa Bryant filed for divorce and was set to get $75 million, some called her move calculated, most said regardless of how the money was coming to her she should take whatever she’s entitled to under the law. Look at Shaunie O’Neal and Juanita Jordan. Yes, all of these women were married to their children’s fathers—who all happened to be habitual cheaters—but we applauded the huge chunks of money they walked away from their marriages with without ever having to take a shot, as Drake would say. We may call some women who get knocked up by ballers and take the money golddiggers but we still expect them to cash that check. On the other hand, look at Russell Brand who could have taken $20 million away in his divorce to Katy Perry this year but opted not to. When I read the news, I thought, wow that’s admirable, but I know had it been a woman, I might have thought, wow that was stupid. Although let’s be honest, how many women would have turned it down?

More than anything these stories serve as a warning of what can happen when you make babies with someone you wouldn’t even make a home with. We may not have millions of dollars at risk but as women increasingly become the breadwinners, it’s not unfathomable that we could find ourselves having to pay for some other man’s lifestyle simply because we have a kid by him and we share custodial rights. It’s bad enough we’ve got more woman than I’d like to think about riding out babymamdom to Gucci and Prada their way to the top. We don’t need men doing it too.

Do you feel like as a man Gabriel shouldn’t even want Halle to support him? Do you think men have grown to be OK with women taking care of them in this way or is this still mostly a woman’s issue?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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I don’t know what’s going to drag on longer, Pilar and Deion Sanders’ divorce, or Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry’s custody battle.

Halle’s baby daddy has filed documents requesting that she be forced to give him a monthly allowance of $15,000-$20,0000 in order to provide a proper home for Nahla when she stays with him and maintain the surroundings she’s grown accustomed to living with her mother.

Gabriel’s not stopping at home fixtures either. According to TMZ, he also wants a “very large” amount of money for their daughter’s clothing and money to take Nahla to see his family in Canada. What is that, a travel voucher?

Halle is said to be going hard to fight this request—perhaps that’s why she fired her old lawyer and sought new representation. The hearing on the matter which was scheduled for Monday has been pushed back to April 9 in order for the family judge to make a decision based on the ruling of the dependency judge. If some of Gabriel’s custody rights end up being taken away based on allegations of abuse from Nahla’s former nanny, that would impact how much Gabriel is “entitled” to receive. Regardless though, isn’t Gabriel a working model? What’s up with his cash flow?

What do you think about this request? Should Halle have to pay up?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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