Who is Halle Berry’s quirky musician boyfriend, Van Hunt? The X-Men actress, who’s currently battling her ex Olivier Martinez in court, fell in love with the Ohio native over the phone during Covid

Berry – who shares nine-year-old son Maceo with Martinez – alleged that he hadn’t been seeing a co-parenting coach as they had previously arranged. In the filing, the John Wick 3 actress said that Martinez “has chosen to repeatedly violate agreements and court orders with careless regard”, per People.

But while Berry’s relationship with her ex remains strained, she continues to have something of a picture-perfect romance with her current partner, Van Hunt, who has been by her side for four years now.

Here’s what we know about him:

Where is Van Hunt from?

Van Hunt, 54, was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he was “surrounded by the pimp lifestyle of his father”, according to his official artist bio on BlueNote. Per the source, he moved from the Midwest to Atlanta in his early 20s.

What does Van Hunt do for work?

According to his 2023 interview with Gabfest, he has been an independent artist for years. “I wouldn’t say there are any advantages to not having the funding you need to make the music you want to make – which has often been the situation for me as an independent artist,” he told the publication, while also outlining the advantages of working with a big team.

How did Halle Berry meet Van Hunt?

Although the couple didn’t explain how they first crossed paths, Berry did open up about how they got to know each other in quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. “I have this new amazing love in my life,” Berry told AARP in 2022, referring to Hunt. “Because of Covid, we spent four months talking on the phone. We were forced to let only our brains connect and discover if we had a connection before our bodies decided to get involved. I’d never done it this way. I fell in love with his mind, his conversation.”

Hunt and Berry shared their first Instagram pic together in July of that year.

Do Van Hunt and Halle Berry have children?

Like Berry, Hunt is a parent too.

At the 2021 People’s Choice Awards, she thanked her children in her acceptance speech after receiving the People’s Icon award. “My two little kids, they have to lose so much time with their mummy because I get to go work and do what I love, so thank you Nahla, thank you Maceo – I hope you find something in life that you can love and you can do with as much vigour and as much zest as I do what I do. I love you guys,” she said.

Who else has Halle Berry dated?

Berry has been married three times. She was with her first husband, American baseball player David Justice, from 1993 to 1997; tied the knot with R&B singer Eric Benét in 2001, before calling it quits four years later; and was married to French actor Olivier Martinez from 2013 to 2016.