14 DAY TRIAL // Rapper M.I.A. and billionaire environmentalist Benjamin Bronfman broke up last year and they’re now fighting for custody over their 4-year-old son Ikhyd. Bronfman has just obtained a restraining order barring the rapper from leaving Brooklyn.
According to reports online cited by Page Six, the rapper had been threatening her ex to move back to her home country and take her son with her, even though she’d been living in Brooklyn for some time and, more importantly, Ikhyd was going to school there.
Bronfman also lives in Brooklyn and he’s been spending a lot of time with his son, an arrangement that had, until just now, suited them both.
Nevertheless, M.I.A. had told him that she would be taking her son out of the country. Bronfman was quick to react.
“Bronfman, the son of music mogul and Seagram’s heir Edgar Bronfman Jr., got a restraining order in Kings County Court after M.I.A allegedly threatened to take their son Ikhyd, 4, to her native London,” the celebrity publication writes.
“M.I.A has been texting and calling Ben, saying she will take their son to London, even though they both live in Brooklyn and the child goes to school there,” reveals an insider for Page Six.
“Ben filed a motion for a temporary restraining order preventing her from taking their son to the UK against his wishes,” adds the spy.
Apparently, the rapper was served with the paperwork last night, which coincides with the time she took to her Twitter to claim that Bronfman was trying to take her son away from her.
“BEN you cant take my son away from me… Just because you have money doesnt mean you have the right… THE BRONFMANS WANT TO TAKE MY CHILD AWAY FROM ME. WHAT KIND OF [expletive] IS THAT? THEY NEVER SEE HIM,” she wrote, obviously upset.
She continued by saying that a mother is more important in a child’s life than a father, which she knows from experience because she was raised by her mom only.
M.I.A. also retweeted comments from her fans who agree with her, as if to show the Bronfmans that she’s not alone in thinking she has every right to take her son out of the country if she so wishes, even if that means preventing the father from spending time with him.