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Halle Berry Rejects Boyfriend’s Proposal: ‘Still on Hold’

The Oscar winner’s boyfriend of five years, Van Hunt, has already proposed. She told him no—or rather, not yet.

Halle Berry isn’t ready to say “I do”—not for the fourth time, anyway. The Hollywood icon revealed Thursday that her longtime boyfriend Van Hunt has proposed, but she didn’t say yes. “So I put out the proposal, and it’s still on hold, as you can see,” Hunt, 55, said. The musician continued: “It’s just out there floating. You know, maybe you can encourage her.” The actress insisted: “We don’t feel like we have to get married to validate our love in any way. We don’t.” Berry, 58, has already been married three times: first to retired baseball player David Justice in the late 1990s, next to singer Eric Benét in the early 2000s, and most recently to French actor Oliver Martinez, who she split with in 2016. In 2024, Berry filed for full custody of their son Maceo, accusing Martinez of failing to follow the terms of their divorce settlement. After so many messy breakups, it seems like Berry doesn’t want to tie the knot again unless she’s 150 percent sure. But while the Catwoman actress isn’t in a rush, she knows Hunt is her forever partner: “I think we will get married just because, out of the people I’ve been married to, this is the person I should have married,” she said.