A story in the latest issue of Star Magazine claims that Halle Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, is living large off the recently awarded $20k a month he receives in child support from Halle. According to source that sounds firmly planted in Halle’s cap, Aubry is spending Halle’s money wildly and not bothering to make any of his own. He’s allegedly turning down modeling jobs because he’s doesn’t have to work for a living now that he has a guaranteed source of income.

Halle Berry’s unemployed baby daddy, French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, doesn’t know much about making money – but he sure knows how to spend it. In June, a judge ordered the Oscar winner to pay her ex $20,000 a month in child support. Apparently you need an allowance like that when you spend $11,000 on your daughter’s fourth birthday party – as Gabriel bragged in court, according to a source. He dropped “a thousand on the cake alone,” says the insider. “The money Gabriel spent would pay for an entire year of preschool!” (One very expensive preschool, anyway.) Beautiful Halle, 45, has been supporting her lazybones ex, 36, since they split in April 2010, and, as the friend points out, “it is really hard for her to watch how he spends money that he didn’t earn.” To add insult to injury, Gabriel doesn’t even take modeling jobs when he’s offered them. “He just lives off Halle,” says the friend. Nice work if you can get it.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, July 20, 2012]

In terms of Gabriel “not knowing about making money,” he reportedly earned nearly 3/4 of a million a year as a model when he hooked up with Halle. That might not be up to par by Halle’s standards, but it’s wildly successful by most everyone else’s.

At least Gabriel spent the money on a kids’ birthday party and isn’t using it to party on rented yachts on the Riviera with supermodels. It sounds like a lot of money for a party for little kids, but these people live in L.A. It’s about a fifth of what Taylor Armstrong spent on her daughter’s fourth birthday party. Plus Halle has worked to limit Gabriel’s access to their daughter at every turn. She probably wouldn’t be shelling out all that money if she just would have cooperated with him to make sure he spent time with his daughter. Now he’s laughing all the way to the bank and lavishing presents on his daughter.

For those of you who were concerned about Halle after her on-set head injury, she seems to be recovered and has returned to work. These are some photos of her and Nahla on set yesterday. That little girl is precious. Look at her playing with the balloons!

Photos of Halle and Nahla credit: FameFlynet. Gabriel is shown with Nahla on 4-24-12. Credit: Juan Sharma, PacificCoastNews.com. He’s also shown working the sidewalk on 6-20-12. Credit: WENN.com