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Eminem, wife fail to settle
20/09/2006 07:21 - (SA)
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Mount Clemens, Michigan - Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper Eminem, his estranged wife and their lawyers met privately in a judge's chambers on Tuesday but failed to agree to terms for the couple's second divorce.
"We didn't settle it, so all we did was set it for mediation," Macomb County Circuit Judge Antonio Viviano told reporters after the conference, which lasted about an hour.
On April 5, 82 days after their second wedding, the multiplatinum artist whose legal name is Marshall Mathers III, filed for divorce from Kimberley Mathers.
Eminem, 33, has used his sometimes tormented relationship with his high school sweetheart as a source of some of his angriest lyrics, talking of killing her.
Eminem's 2000 album The Slim Shady LP has the song Kim, in which the rapper talks of abducting her and slitting her throat.
"You were supposed to love me, now bleed ... bleed, bleed," it says.
The couple had daughter Hailie in 1996, married in 1999, divorced in 2001, remarried in January and then quickly separated again.
Welfare of the children
In addition to the couple's 10-year-old daughter, the 31-year-old Kimberley Mathers has another daughter and is raising her sister's daughter. Eminem has been legal guardian of his half brother.
Kimberley Mathers declined comment on her way out of the courthouse. Eminem was not seen leaving the building.
Eminem's lawyer Harvey Hauer and Kimberley Mathers' lawyer Michael J Smith would not discuss the hearing, but expressed optimism for a settlement.
"Mr Mathers' only concern is the welfare of his children," Hauer said. "Hopefully, we'll put the matter behind us."
"Like Marshall ... what she really wants is the welfare of the children," Smith said. "The parties are hopeful that it will be settled amicably."
Eminem has won nine Grammy Awards, including best rap album for The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show. He won an Oscar for the song Lose Yourself from 8 Mile, the semi-autobiographical 2002 film in which he starred.
Eminem's latest recording project - Eminem Presents: The Re-Up - will be released in December.
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