Rapper Eminem Is Officially Divorced

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - Eminem's divorce is official after months of wrangling over child support.

The rapper, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, and his ex-wife, Kim Mathers, will share custody of their 5-year-old daughter. "It's always been Marshall's desire that whatever happened would happen in the best interest of the child,'' said Harvey Hauer, a Franklin attorney who represented Eminem.

In a divorce decree issued Friday, Macomb County Circuit Judge Donald G. Miller ordered Eminem to pay $1,000 a week - or $52,000 yearly - in child support to his ex-wife, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.

The settlement is far less than the $2,740 a week - or $142,480 annually - recommended by the Macomb County Friend of the Court. Still, Hauer said the couple came to an amicable resolution. "Now they can carry on with their lives and with being the kind of parents they want to be,'' Hauer told The Macomb Daily.
A telephone message left at the office of Robert Feldstein, Kim Mathers' attorney in the divorce, was not immediately returned.

Eminem, 28, and Kim Mathers, 26, were married in June 1999. They legally separated in August 2000, two months after Eminem was charged with using a gun to pistol-whip a man he said he saw kissing his wife outside a nightclub.
The couple reconciled right before the end of last year but Kim Mathers filed for divorce in March.