Celebrities and the Law

Olivier Martinez and Gabriel Aubry get into a brawl at Halle Berry's home when he drops Nahla off for Thanksgiving.

Apparently it was Aubry who was taken to the hospital and a citizen's arrest was made. Halle has an emergency restraining order against him for her, Martinez, and Nahla.

With the way the custody battle has been going, I'm surprised Halle and Gabriel apparently aren't (or weren't) at the "have a third party hand off the kid from one parent to another" stage. Where was the nanny? Didn't a judge rule against Halle moving to France with Nahla earlier this month? I hate to say that anyone was provoked into violence but what...interesting timing for Halle that Gabriel "proves" how violent he is and that he can't be trusted around his daughter. And maybe in light of this new evidence a judge will now decide that Halle can move out of the continent with their daughter after all, just like she wanted in the first place. That Yahoo link said all three adults and Nahla involved went to a party together a few days ago without incident, which is frankly shocking to me. Now this. Maybe if TMZ didn't have pictures of Olivier's injuries already it would all feel a little less like a setup. Of course, even if someone is egged on into a fight, that doesn't mean that reacting with violence is the only available option. Maybe Halle was right about Gabriel all along but no one would believe her and that was extra infuriating and she wondered what she had to do to get people to see things her way. Or, the reality could be that all the adults involved here suck to varying degrees. Poor Nahla!

The original article I saw stated that Martinez came out of the house to talk to Aubry and that's when the fisticuffs started. It didn't say who started the fight. Why wouldn't Martinez have stayed in the house? It makes me wonder if he was trying to fan flames.

This child appears to have a loving father who wants to be in the picture. I was happy to hear the judge put the kibosh to the move to France and I hope this incident doesn't cause Aubry to lose access. He doesn't seem like a loser. As far as I know there's been no history of violence with this guy.

I feel sorry for Nahla, though, and hope she didn't see any of this go down.

Considering too that the injuries are apparently to his hand, that doesn't really help or hurt their case. It just confirms he was in a fight, it doesn't really do a good job of showing him to be the victim of anything. Because you can hurt your hand by, you know, punching someone, regardless of who started it.

It's a shame when grown-ups can't be fucking grown-up in their child rearing. I haven't heard anything about him being a bad father, so I lean towards "Halle, you chose to have a child with him and thought he was good enough then - absent new information, yes, you do need to share".

I feel bad for Nahla. I'm not comfortably being on anyone elses side because like you said, we don't know enough information.

Kiran wrote:I feel bad for Nahla. I'm not comfortably being on anyone elses side because like you said, we don't know enough information.

This. I remember my parents getting into fights around the holidays, so I feel for that kid. I hope she can keep her head up.

Man, that custody battle is a trainwreck and a half three quarters. I'm sure Nahla's holiday season is all sunshine and rainbows this year!

Apparently they were yelling at each other in French before/while fighting, so it's unlikely even witness know exactly what happened. I didn't realize that Nahla's father was also a French speaker (he's French-Canadian).

Poor kid. I echo whoever said they wondered why the parents were near each other after such a nasty custody battle (trying to move the kid across the world is pretty much trying to end her relationship with her dad).

For the love of that poor child, can everyone please just act like mature adults and stop screaming at each other (in any and all languages) and getting into fights?

Aubry tells his side of the story. Now the spin begins, I guess.

Whoever started the fight, Aubry's bashed face suggests Martinez won it. I wouldn't be surprised if, in addition to the restraining order, charges get fired against Martinez, too.

Poor Nahla.

They're all losers.

Josh Brolin, public intoxication. At least he wasn't driving.

Gangster Squad needs more publicity, right? Good job, Josh! *sarcasm*

Chris Brown (maybe) jumped Frank Ocean. Over a freaking parking space.

I'm decidedly non-violent but I wish somebody would just clean his clock.

Wow, way to make the internet hate you even more, dude.

Can Chris Brown just please officially fuck off?

Nation Would Not Be Surprised At This Point If Chris Brown Allegedly Traveled Back In Time And Punched Anne Frank

The Onion, of course. (Via vwlphb on Twitter)

I spent all of the 90's being able to tell the London brothers apart, but at this point I don't even know anymore. Jeremy was the one who was "kidnapped" by crack users, right?

Is this Jason's first arrest? If so, he's doing a fab job keeping up with his brother.

Jason was thrown out of the bar kicking and screaming and in the process he was beaten up.

Cops arrested Jason for disorderly conduct/fighting and assault.

On his way to the police station ... Jason uttered a homophobic slur ... "Guess what fa**ot? I f***ing love this. I f***ing own you guys so hard. I'm rich and I'm a motherf***ing famous actor! F***ing look me up, bitch."

Jason continued ... "It smells like s**t in your car and your breath smells like diarrhea." According to the police report, Jason then leaned to the left and crapped in his pants. Jason then said, "I told you I'm happy as s**t."

What a charmer.

I was thinking maybe Jeremy stole his identity because what is the use of having a twin if you can't blame them for defecating in a police car! But then the update says he tweeted about it, denying the cops version of events.

Ah, local police report was written to reflect the arresting officer's opinion that he defecated intentionally. Er, no, can't see ever see doing that intentionally. Maybe he saw it coming and talked it up. Ew.

So is this isn't the twin with the kidnapping hoax, this is the supposedly cleaner one-? Ay. Yuck.

He's the Mad Pooper!