Actor confirms the happy news at the opening of his restaurant

Mar 12, 2012 15:03 GMT  ·  By

Halle Berry and his beau Olivier Martinez are engaged. Though reports of this emerged online for the first time in late 2011, it's just now that either of the two stars is confirming it for the press.

At the opening of his restaurant in Miami the other day, Olivier announced his engagement to Halle in the most simple manner imaginable.

“Yes, of course we're engaged!” he gushed when asked about the state of his romance with the beautiful actress.

Us Weekly doesn't say whether Halle was also present at the event, but it mentions that the actor also talked about the ring he proposed with.

Apparently, the person who boasts of having designed the emerald ring is a fraud, Olivier told the press.

“There is a jeweler taking credit for doing the ring and it’s a lie! They have nothing to do with this,” he said.

“The bauble was actually designed by Robert Mazlo, a jeweler from Martinez’s Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood in Paris,” Us Weekly clarifies.

“According to the actor-turned-restaurateur, Mazlo is 'a real artist' whose family has been designing jewelry for 'kings and queens for many centuries',” says the same celebrity publication.

For the time being, these are all the details available on Halle and Olivier's engagement. The actor would not reveal a wedding date – not even an estimated one – or anything more on the happy event.

In the meantime, Halle continues the custody war against her ex, model Gabriel Aubry, with whom he has a daughter, Nahla.

Recent reports claim that Aubry has grown tired of always being portrayed as the villain in the press, having made up his mind to write a tell-all book in which to expose Halle as the evil, manipulative woman she is.

In return, she's having her lawyers draw up a non-disclosure agreement to gag Gabriel from speaking in public about her – for the right amount of money, of course, as we also noted at the time.