Halle Berry and Olivier
Martinez (WireImage)
Halle Berry and Olivier
Martinez are divorcing after two years of marriage.
“It is with a heavy
heart that we have come to the decision to divorce,” the couple said in a joint
statement to People. “We move forward with love and respect for one another and
the shared focus of what is best for our son. We wish each other nothing but
happiness in life and we hope that you respect our and, most importantly, our
children’s privacy as we go through this difficult period."
There doesn’t appear to
be a specific incident that prompted the divorce, though the couple’s two year
marriage has been peppered with legal troubles. Just last week, an employee at
LAX airport sued Berry and Martinez for $5 million dollars, after Martinez
allegedly hit him with a baby’s car seat.
There is also, of
course, the Thanksgiving Day brawl of 2012, in which Martinez got into a nasty
fight with Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, after he came to drop their daughter
Nahla off at Berry and Martinez’s home. Both Martinez and Aubry had to go to
the hospital after the fight and Aubry was issued a restraining order after the
fight.
This will be the third
divorce for Berry; after her second, in 2007, Berry said she would “never,
never get married again.”
There is no word on a
custody arrangement for the couple’s two-year-old son, Maceo-Robert, but the
couple reportedly does have a prenup.
