A Los Angeles family court has granted actor Olivier Martinez a temporary restraining order against his ex-wife, Halle Berry, and awarded him primary custody of their 12-year-old son, Maceo, after Martinez accused Berry of choking the boy during an argument.
According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Martinez alleges that on Sept. 26, 2026, Berry put her hands around Maceo’s neck during a dispute that began after she called him “stupid” for how he was playing a video game with virtual reality goggles. Martinez says Berry’s fiancé, Van Hunt, was present for the incident. He claims a “traumatized” Maceo begged to be picked up afterward and did not want to return to his mother’s house.
The court has barred Berry from coming within 100 yards of Martinez and granted her two days of supervised visitation per week plus every other weekend with Maceo. The two are scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 16, 2026.
Berry’s attorney, Marina Beck, issued a sharp denial, calling the filing “entirely meritless and deliberately misleading.”
“There is voluminous evidence, including numerous judicial rulings, that Olivier Martinez repeatedly violated court orders and interfered with necessary therapeutic and educational interventions to the detriment of his and Halle Berry’s minor son, Maceo — misconduct for which Mr. Martinez has already been legally sanctioned,” Beck said in a statement to Page Six on Oct. 1, 2026.
Beck further alleged that Martinez has a history of “erratic, possessive and violent behavior.”
A Decade-Plus of Legal Conflict
The latest filings cap a long and bitter legal history between the two. Berry and Martinez met in July 2010 on the Cape Town set of “Dark Tide” and began dating that August. They became engaged in early 2012 and married in July 2013 at a chateau outside Paris, welcoming son Maceo on Oct. 5, 2013.
The marriage collapsed quickly. By October 2015 the couple announced their split in a joint statement, saying they would “move forward with love and respect for one another,” and both filed for divorce within a day of each other, citing irreconcilable differences. An alleged altercation at LAX in January 2015, in which Martinez was investigated for battery after reportedly pushing an airport employee with a car seat near photographers, was cited by a source as having worsened tensions, though no charges were filed.
Though the couple reached a joint custody agreement in 2016, their divorce was not finalized until August 2023 — eight years after they separated. Under that settlement, Berry agreed to pay Martinez $8,000 a month in child support, cover Maceo’s private school tuition and extracurricular costs, and voluntarily pay $55,000 toward Martinez’s attorney’s fees, with the two sharing joint physical custody.
Conflict resumed almost immediately. In May 2024 the former couple agreed in court to individual and joint co-parenting therapy, with Hunt permitted to attend sessions. By August 2024, Berry accused Martinez of delaying that therapy to travel to France and host his brother in Los Angeles. Weeks later, Berry sought sole custody herself, alleging Martinez’s “turbulent and detrimental behavior” and claiming Maceo had unaddressed behavioral and learning problems that Martinez refused to address with a tutor because of his soccer schedule.
In a September 2024 filing, Berry said she had spent more than $200,000 trying to work with Martinez on their son’s wellbeing, and criticized him over child support, writing, “As Olivier has advised this court, he lives off my child support and in order to be able to pay child support, I have to go to work. I do not have the luxury of taking months off.”
Martinez disputed those claims at the time. The dispute now moves to a court hearing on Oct. 16, 2026, with primary custody currently resting with Martinez.
