In Hollywood celebrities often go from co-stars to co-parents and most of the time, there
is a lot of drama surrounding this transition.
Having a civilised and friendly breakup and co-parenting journey is rare in Hollywood,
so rare that Brian Austin Green and Vanessa Marcil were not one of those couples.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars seemed as though they had a great relationship, but
things came crashing down fairly quickly and left them in a 12-yearlong custody battle.
It was 1998 and season 9 of the hit TV series Beverly Hills 90210 was being filmed.
We saw most of the original cast and met with some new faces, including that of Vanessa
Marcil’s.
Her character briefly dated Brian Austin Green’s character and the sparks seemed to fly off
screen too as the pair began dating in real life.
By 2001, the two were engaged.
A year later, they welcomed their son, Kassius Lijah.
It seemed as though this couple were committed to each other and that the next big step they
would take was marriage.
But by 2003, it seemed that something had taken a strain on the relationship.
Around the same time Vanessa and Brian split, he had met Megan Fox on the set of Hope & Faith.
At the time, Megan was only 18 years old, and the actor was 13-years her senior.
It wasn’t long after the split between him and his fiancée that he went public with
his relationship with the young actress.
Many have speculated that the cause of the relationship ending was infidelity on his
part.
Fox and Green went on to get married in an intimate wedding ceremony in 2010.
Marcil and the actor’s son, Kassius, was his best man at the ceremony, so all seemed
to be well between the co-parents.
However, Vanessa and Brian’s split sparked a 12 yearlong custody battle that was still
going on at the time of his wedding.
In 2006, the actress was served legal papers and then spent more than 8 years defending
herself and her son in court.
The Desperate Housewives actor and Megan were trying to get full custody so that his son’s
mother would only get to see her child four days a month and she would have to pay child
support.
They lost that case and all the cases to come.
In the midst of their bitter custody battle, Green sued Marcil, alleging that she never
paid him back the money that he started loaning her in 2000.
According to the court documents filed by him in 2012, he alleged that she agreed to
pay him back upwards of $200,000 but refused to give him the money when he asked for it
in November 2011.
Green claimed he had an agreement with Marcil that specified that the money was not a gift
and she had to pay it back.
The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed as it was ruled that the statute of limitations
had run out as the Anger Management actor failed to file his case against his ex sooner.
The cast was then dismissed.
The judge also told Vanessa that she could seek monetary sanctions against her ex and
she asked for more than $50,000.
The actress addressed the lawsuit on Instagram saying, “They lost a civil case asking me
for 200,000.
I had also never asked for child support and had never tried to take time away from Kass’
dad seeing him.
Ever.
In the end they lost all these court cases.
The judge called them all frivolous.”
Vanessa only spoke out publicly for the first time about what had been happening in 2018
and EVERYTHING was posted to her social media accounts.
She chose not to speak out in order to protect her young son from the media as the paparazzi
already followed him around and terrified him.
Despite the legal drama, Marcil said she never challenged Green’s right to joint custody.
However, this isn’t how the actor treated the situation, he acted as though he had no
custody and cut his young son out of his life for 5 years!
On their own, Megan and Brian decided to completely cut Kass out of theirs and his younger brothers’
lives.
“He is not allowed to know where his bio father, stepmother and three younger brothers
live.
He has only seen his dad in passing or in public places.
Kass has been truly heartbroken since being cut out of his other family’s lives with
NO explanation.
Let’s do better for our kids,” she said.
People close to the pair disclosed a lot of details about what was happening.
Allegedly, since Green started dating Fox, he started having conflicts with Marcil.
At the time, Fox was very young and she was reportedly always jealous and nervous that
he would go back to his child’s mother.
Everyone around them knew that Brian didn’t have any contact with his son.
Many were confused because he was a present dad to his sons with Megan.
“That’s his choice, but it doesn’t make it right.
It’s just a sad situation.
Brian could easily fix it, and it doesn’t seem he cares.
Hopefully Vanessa speaking out in public will now change things,” a close friend of the
two said.
Still, things remained tense between Marcil and Green.
She answered a fan’s question about why she always speaks so poorly about Brian on
social media.
“I just speak the truth now at my son’s request in order to help him heal and not
shoulder these secrets anymore.
His father’s actions reflect poorly on him, that is his doing.
He’s lucky that I don’t “speak poorly” about him after what he put our innocent boy
through.
Custody cases hurt the children only and the truth shall set us all free,” she wrote.
Even with everything that his ex was saying, the Beverly Hills actor never commented on
any of it.
He also didn’t make any changes for quite some time.
All he did was poke fun at everything she’d been saying.
At one point, Marcil stated that she was never in love with Green, even though they were
engaged for several years!
“I was always honest with him about that.
I did however feel sorry for him.
I still do.
He’s a very angry and sad human being who still has too much shame to take full responsibility
for his actions as a father.
I consciously knew that I could work through childhood traumas through him and I have,”
she said.
Ouch!
Brian then went onto his podcast, With Brian Austin Green, and quipped with his co-host
Derek Russell about the situation.
He sarcastically addressed it by saying he was the diva on set and that was obviously
what he was known as in the industry.
He also said that being angry and sad are complete opposites and don’t mix together.
Well, people can be both, right?
“I’m just angry and sad all the time.
I’m sangry.
My temper is just legendary,” he joked.
After the breakup, both of them did move on.
Vanessa went on to marry Carmine Giovinazzo.
Their relationship lasted for only 3 years.
Then she became engaged to MC Martin in 2015 and they are still together!
As we know, Green married Megan Fox.
They had a tumultuous on-again-off-again relationship that had her filing for divorce twice!
Eventually, in 2020, they called it quits for good and got a divorce.
Marcil was first in line to praise Fox for her finally divorcing the actor.
“Megan finally living her life for herself is in itself a gift to her children,” she
wrote.
Yeesh!
As for the custody battle, the judge awarded joint custody as was the original agreement
between the pair.
Brian also took a step in the right direction with his son.
He invited Kass to visit the set of Beverly Hills, 90210 in 2019.
The then-17-year-old gushed over the fun-filled day in a series of Instagram pictures at the
time.
“I’m visiting my dad in Vancouver on the set of 90210.
We’re going to be staying here for a bit.
I’m here for a week and I am so excited,” he shared.
Vanessa’s fiancé, MC, was so happy that Kass was finally invited to see his father.
After Brian seemingly repaired his relationship with Kassius, Vanessa shed some new light
on their father-son relationship.
“Kass loves him unconditionally and I am very proud of that fact.
I celebrate Kass’ love for his father and remain extremely grateful that my son was
finally invited back into his dad’s life and was able to finally meet his youngest
brother and finally see his other two siblings again.
My son is also an incredible big brother,” she wrote.
The visits to set didn’t stop there, Green invited his son to watch him on Dancing With
The Stars in 2021.
And it was Marcil that shared a post saying that she was Team Green.
The actor’s dancing partner was Sharna Burgess.
The pair began dating and are still together today.
Despite all of the damage done by the unnecessarily lengthy custody battle and the attempted lawsuits
against his ex, Brian Austin Green seems to be moving in the right direction.
He seems happier than ever with his girlfriend, and she seems to be having a positive impact
on his relationship with his son.
As for Vanessa Marcil, she made some brave moves and even braver claims that seemed to
encourage her son’s father to take action in being a dad.
Although they didn’t work out romantically, they have a beautiful child together and nowadays
focus all their attention on him and a healthy co-parenting relationship.
Let us know in the comments below what you thought about Brian’s actions towards his
son and Vanessa.
Thanks for watching, this has been Rumour Juice.