Olivier Martinez, Halle Berry’s former partner, has accused the actress of physically harming their 12-year-old son as he petitions for sole custody and court-ordered protection for himself and the child.

According to court records obtained by The Daily Mail, Martinez claims Berry “physically abused our son by jumping on him and choking him” during an alleged confrontation on September 26, 2026.

Martinez has filed for a restraining order that would bar Berry from contacting or approaching both him and their son.

The filings describe a pattern of alleged conflicts involving Berry, Martinez and their son over several years, with the latest incident leading Martinez to seek legal intervention.

“Throughout the last year-and-a-half, Ms. Berry has wrestled Maceo to the ground and forced him to ‘tap out,’” Martinez alleged in the documents.

He further claimed Berry repeatedly grabbed their son by the back of the neck when he was not expecting it and forced him to tap out. Martinez said Berry characterized the behavior as joking, while their son allegedly made clear that he did not enjoy it.

Martinez also alleges that Berry caused him “emotional and mental distress” through racially charged comments she allegedly made to Maceo.

The court papers claim that, during a 2023 dispute over child support, Berry described Maceo’s father as “a white b**ch trying to rob a black woman.” She allegedly then asked their son, “How do you feel about that as a black man?”

Martinez also alleged that Berry distressed their son by threatening to have him deported to France.

Among his requested protections, Martinez wants Berry kept at least 100 yards away from him and their son. He is also asking the court to require her to complete a 52-week batterer intervention course and remain sober while caring for Maceo.

The filing seeks an order preventing Berry from drinking alcohol or using other substances while she has visitation or custody of Maceo. It also requests Sober Link monitoring before, during and after visits, along with any additional testing the court believes is necessary to protect the child.

Martinez claims Maceo no longer wants to visit Berry’s home and may have been traumatized by the alleged confrontation. “My peace was disturbed by the fact that Petitioner physically abused our son,” he wrote.

The September confrontation is alleged to be part of a longer history of physical incidents involving Berry and Maceo.

“Both our son and Petitioner have spoken to me about past attacks,” Martinez wrote, claiming that both confirmed Berry had allegedly attacked Maceo without provocation and placed him in chokeholds learned during her mixed martial arts training.

Martinez said their son had repeatedly told him how much he hated the behavior, while Berry allegedly minimized the encounters as playful joking.

According to the filing, the alleged conduct became so upsetting that Maceo told his father, “The next time she does that, I’m going to kick her a**.”

“While the September 26, 2026 incident in which Petitioner choked our son is the latest incident of abuse, I contend there have been other instances of abuse over the course of the last few years,” Martinez alleged.

He claimed those earlier incidents included additional physical attacks against Maceo, as well as alleged verbal and emotional abuse directed at Martinez.

‘All of these incidents of disturbed my peace and is conduct that falls within the scope of the Domestic Violence Protection Act. I have significant concerns about Petitioner’s mental health, as well as her alcohol abuse, which I believe have contributed to her abusive conduct.’  

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Martinez also accused Berry of slapping Maceo in the face twice around five years ago.

‘I am aware of the fact that Petitioner has struck Maceo in the face before,’ he says. ‘Specifically, she slapped him in the face twice, approximately 5 years ago. While I don’t have personal knowledge of this incident, I believe that Maceo would testify to this if he were asked by the Court or a Court appointed evaluator.’

Martinez, who has 50-50 custody of Maceo with Berry, is now seeking sole custody of their son.  

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Berry for comment but have not heard back.  

Berry and Martinez were married for just three years and endured a bitter custody battle over their son.

Berry met Martinez — dubbed the ‘French Brad Pitt’ — on set of Dark Tide, which was filming in South Africa in 2010.

The two wed in 2013 — the same year they welcomed their son Maceo Robert, 12 —and split in 2016.

The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2023, with the outcome being joint custody and Halle paying child support.

But in 2024, Berry launched a legal battle against the actor as she claimed he was trying to take time off from their co-parenting therapy – requesting that he is compelled to participate.

In October, a judge sided with the actress, but noted that Martinez already complied with her request after she took him to court.

In documents obtained by US Weekly, Berry claimed she has spent over $200,000 in legal fees including ‘voluntarily’ contributing $80,000 towards Martinez’s own legal expenses.

She also claimed the actor was supporting himself financially using her child support payments.

Berry was seeking sole custody of their child as she claimed Maceo is struggling in school and that he is, ‘grade levels behind,’ adding he’d been diagnosed with ADHD and mild dyslexia.

Berry added that Martinez was, ‘either oblivious’ to his difficulties or, ‘carelessly disregards them,’ which she said proves he’s unfit for custody.

Martinez was also involved in an infamous fight with Berry’s ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, with whom she shares daughter Nahla.

Martinez started dating Berry the same year she and Aubry announced their split.

The two made headlines in 2012 when they got into a fight with her ex Aubry during Thanksgiving. The model had dropped daughter Nahla off at Berry’s Los Angeles home.

That is when Martinez and Aubrey got into a verbal which soon turned physical. Aubrey claimed the S.W.A.T. actor threatened to kill him. Both men had to go to the hospital for their injuries.

Aubrey was arrested and issued a restraining order as a result of the incident.

Earlier this year, Berry announced her engagement to Grammy-winning boyfriend Van Hunt after five years together.  

Kimberly Guilfoyle has declined to remove an energy lobbyist from meetings held in her role as US ambassador to Greece, the Daily Mail can exclusively report.

The 57-year-old former Fox News host, who was previously engaged to Donald Trump Jr, has dismissed concerns about a potential conflict of interest.

“I need him,” Guilfoyle has said, according to roughly half a dozen insiders who spoke to the Daily Mail.

Sources in Athens say the controversy extends beyond Christos Marafatsos, 39, whose attendance at Guilfoyle’s official meetings was first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week.

Three insiders told the Daily Mail that Guilfoyle’s team sought complimentary items from a Greek hospitality fixer, including two cases of Champagne and a dinner costing almost €1,600 ($1,800). An embassy official said Guilfoyle paid for the meal.

At least two Greek news organizations published stories based on the Journal’s report before removing them soon afterward, as the claims attracted attention in Washington.

“Her team has forged excellent relationships with all the Greek media. They will call them up, and poof, there goes the bad press. Many people are afraid of getting on their bad side,” a Greek media insider said.

The controversy has reportedly frustrated Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is due to travel to Athens within days for talks with the Greek government, according to sources.

“Rubio is annoyed but quite frankly has too much on his plate to worry about the side quests of Kimberly Guilfoyle,” a State Department source said.

President Donald Trump selected Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece in December 2024, shortly after Don Jr was photographed out with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, who is now his wife. The Senate confirmed Guilfoyle last September.

Before her appointment, sources cautioned the woman nicknamed “Margarita Girl” to conduct herself carefully, warning that a posting among Greece’s Aegean islands and famously long summers was not an invitation to live a party lifestyle.

In July, Guilfoyle was photographed drinking Champagne and eating grapes at Nammos, the jet-set venue on Mykonos’s Psarou Beach, with Bill White, Trump’s openly gay ambassador to Belgium. She traveled to Paris for Fashion Week the following day.

That same month, Trump returned directly to the United States from the NATO summit in Turkey rather than stopping in Greece, despite Guilfoyle having promised local officials a presidential visit.

The controversy surrounding Guilfoyle escalated Thursday when senior Democrats on the Senate and House foreign affairs committees called on Rubio to investigate her conduct, pointing to the Journal’s reporting.

“If these reports are accurate, Ambassador Guilfoyle is unfit to represent the United States abroad and should be removed from her position,” Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the top House Foreign Affairs Democrat, wrote in a letter to Rubio.

An embassy official said Guilfoyle “continues to follow all State Department ethical guidelines.”

Marafatsos is a registered lobbyist for Aktor Group, a major Greek infrastructure and construction company that has expanded into natural gas distribution and renewable energy.

Guilfoyle has “worked with companies across the energy sector” rather than representing a single company, her lawyer, Jesse Binnall, told the Journal.

Aktor paid Marafatsos $160,000 through June to build ties with the White House and the State and Energy departments, and Guilfoyle urged Balkan officials to do business with the company, the Journal reported. 

Lawyers for Aktor told the Journal that the company’s involvement began before it had any contact with the ambassador. 

Marafatsos has worked closely with Guilfoyle in a non-governmental capacity, bridging the gap between Athens and the Greek-American diaspora, a source familiar with their working arrangement said. He also chairs Greeks for Trump, founded in 2016. 

Guilfoyle and the White House have contested the Journal’s reporting and deny any impropriety. 

Keeping Marafatsos in the room has left her embassy firefighting on two continents. 

Staff are racing to set up urgent meetings with senior Greek officials in Athens and Washington to limit the fallout, some of them face-to-face with Guilfoyle herself, multiple sources said.

Guilfoyle insists her tight-knit inner circle, which includes her omnipresent personal stylist, Fancy James, remains vital to her ambassadorial mission, insiders said.

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‘She has a close team of people that are basically running the show, smoothing the way for her, and making sure she has everything she needs,’ the same State Department source added.

Giannis Chorozoglou, a Greek ‘hospitality guru,’ has acted as the team’s personal guide, three insiders close to Guilfoyle told the Daily Mail.

Guilfoyle’s team asked him this spring to order two cases of Champagne for the ambassador.

‘Are you serious? Just a discount? Are we paying for it? It was supposed to be free for the ambassador,’ a member of her team fired back when Chorozoglou secured only a discount.

‘Whenever she is invited somewhere she asks for a specific Champagne that is insanely expensive because it’s the only alcohol she drinks,’ a Greek source familiar with her outings said.

Guilfoyle dined at Matsuhisa at the Four Seasons Astir Palace in Vouliagmeni, a wealthy seaside enclave south of Athens, on May 31. She was joined by her son Ronan and his father, businessman and furniture designer Eric Villency.

One of her aides called Chorozoglou to complain when the bill came to €1,586, insisting the meal was supposed to be complimentary and the ambassador would not be paying. 

The bill was eventually sent straight to the embassy, sources familiar with the exchange said.

Soliciting gifts of that kind goes well beyond a question of taste and would breach federal law and rules designed to shield serving ambassadors from accusations of corruption, three current and former diplomats told the Daily Mail.

Under federal ethics regulations, government employees ‘shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or accept a gift’ that is given because of their official position.

SKAI and Money Review, the two outlets that pulled their versions of the Wall Street Journal story, are both owned by shipping magnate Giannis Alafouzos.

‘In Greece, most of these stories have been censored, links have been removed and pretty much anything critical of the Ambassador is taken down,’ a source in Greek media told the Daily Mail.

Rubio’s talks in Athens next week will cover defense cooperation, migration, counterterrorism, airport narcotics controls, Middle East stability and Greek-Turkish relations.

Career diplomats are frustrated with Guilfoyle but feel powerless to rein her in, sources said. 

‘President Trump thought he could ship her away to Greece and give her a plush title and then he could wipe his hands of it,’ an administration official said.

‘But she is creating negative headlines all the way from Europe, and it has infiltrated American media because she is such a big Republican name. Frankly, there is no other US ambassador that has received this much press in such a short period of time.’

Embassy staff and foreign diplomats tread carefully around Guilfoyle, who makes no secret of her direct line to the Oval Office, sources said. 

‘She is able to intimidate Athens Embassy personnel, State Department higher-ups and even Greek and regional government officials using the Trump card,’ a source close to the US Embassy in Athens said.

‘She has Trump’s phone number on her cellphone and can wield that like a weapon imperiously: “Don’t get in my way or I can call the President of the United States.”‘

The Daily Mail has contacted Chorozoglou, SKAI and Money Review for comment. 

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers insists Guilfoyle has done an ‘incredible job’ in her role and suggestions otherwise are ‘trash.’

Rubio said Guilfoyle has been an ‘incredibly effective advocate’ for the president’s agenda ‘in Greece and across Europe.’ 

‘President Trump and I greatly value the Ambassador’s pivotal work and leadership in the region,’ Rubio said in a statement. 

Marafatsos said in a statement: ‘I am grateful for the opportunity to draw on my business experience and leadership in the Greek American community.’ 

Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy and the juror who stood alone during deliberations have traded sharply worded statements as prosecutors prepare to say at a Tuesday hearing whether they will seek a retrial.

Clancy acknowledges killing her three young children in 2023, but maintains she was heavily medicated and experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time. Prosecutors have contended that the deaths resulted from deliberate, planned actions rather than a psychiatric breakdown.

The five-week trial ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy, 36, was guilty of murder or manslaughter, or whether she was not criminally responsible for the killings.

The 12-member panel—nine women and three men—deliberated for more than 37 hours. Eleven jurors reportedly reached the same conclusion, but the 12th, later identified as Michael P Desronvil, refused to join them.

Following the mistrial, Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, submitted two motions seeking dismissal of the case.

One motion invoked double jeopardy, the constitutional protection against being prosecuted or punished twice for the same offense. The second sought an investigation into Desronvil, alleging that he had violated jury rules.

Edward Paltzik, who represents the holdout juror, told Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on Monday that prosecutors and Reddington had agreed to postpone the motion concerning an investigation into Michael.

Reddington disputed that account in a statement to the Daily Mail, describing Paltzik’s claim as “pure nonsense” and accusing him of being “a publicity-seeking opportunist.”

“It has come to my attention that Ed Paltzik—the hoodie-wearing lawyer claiming to represent the obstructionist juror—has issued false and blatantly misleading statements regarding our motion to inquire,” Reddington said.

He said Paltzik’s claim that the motion had been postponed through an agreement between prosecutors and the defense was “absurd” and “pure nonsense.”

Reddington said he and prosecutors agreed, as a professional courtesy, to reschedule the motion so Paltzik would have sufficient time to review it and respond.

“The motion remains active, fully alive, and is currently pending a ruling from Judge Sullivan,” Reddington said.

He concluded that his legal team would not allow “a publicity-seeking opportunist” to portray a routine courtroom accommodation as a victory.

Paltzik escalated the dispute Monday evening in a post on X. He argued that Reddington had been able to remove Desronvil during jury selection but chose not to do so.

“Clearly, Reddington liked Michael well enough long before the mistrial,” Paltzik wrote.

He described Reddington’s criticism after the trial as “sophomoric whining” and “pure sour grapes” from an angry and exhausted attorney who believed a defense verdict was his by right.

At the motion hearing scheduled for 9am on Tuesday, Judge William Sullivan is expected to hear the two motions to dismiss the case that were filed by Reddington.

It is also expected that the district attorney’s office will announce whether it plans to retry Clancy, and if so, on what charges.

Prosecutors may be inclined to reduce the charges they are seeking against Clancy to second-degree murder or manslaughter to increase the likelihood of a conviction.

Brad Bailey, a Boston defense attorney and former prosecutor who is not involved in the case, told the Daily Mail earlier this month that prosecutors could also offer Clancy a plea deal instead of a new trial. 

‘Any time the threat of a retrial with murder one hanging over the client is re-interjected, defense lawyers will, at the very least, explore whether or not there’s any interest in a resolution,’ Bailey said. 

The district attorney’s office could also decide not to retry the case.

Bailey explained: ‘Sometimes they decide not to, because of the sense that there may be the same result each time they try it, and because of the expenditures involved in trying the case to begin with, particularly when you have expert witnesses.’

If the district attorney’s office decides not to move forward with a retrial, then Reddington’s motions to dismiss the case will likewise not move forward, as they would become redundant.