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Eminem Divorce a Done Deal
by Josh Grossberg
Oct 10, 2001, 1:30 PM PT

Slim Shady can finally stop rapping about killing his wife. He's no longer married.

A judge in Michigan has officially granted Eminem's divorce, closing the book on the tumultuous on-again off-again marriage between the trash-talking rapper (otherwise known as Marshall Bruce Mathers III) and his lyrically scalded sweetie, Kim Mathers.

In addition to ponying up $1,000 a week in child support (or a lump sum of $52,000 a year), Macomb County Circuit Judge Donald G. Miller on Friday also ordered Em and his ex to share custody of their 5-year-old daughter.

Despite a stormy marriage--during which Mathers rhymed about murdering his other half in the song "Kim"--the divorce was actually settled amicably.

"It's always been Marshall's desire that whatever happened would happen in the best inerest of the child," Eminem attorney Harvey Hauer told the Detroit Free Press. "He holds his child's interest as paramount in all his decision making relative to the issues of this case."

In addition to hanging on to some family values, the 28-year-old Grammy-winner also is allowed to keep the couple's $450,000 house in suburban Detroit in exchange for writing Kim, 26, a check for $475,000 to buy a new home.

While the two sides struck a preliminary divorce deal in March, last week's agreement falls far short of the $2,740 a week in child support initially suggested by the Macomb County Friend of the Court.

But the judge's decree does take care of some loose ends, namely divvying up their "marital estate"--including mortgages, life insurance and other joint assets--and Eminem's income from sources such as album royalties, touring fees, merchandise and promotional appearances.

The couple, who met in love in high school, tied the knot in 1999. Em filed for divorce just 14 months later.

A two-month stab at reconciliation ended last March, with the missus filing for divorce a second time. The two were able to make nice long enough to hammer out a deal over the custody of their daughter.

An attorney for Kim Mathers declined to comment on the settlement.

JANET CANCELS EURO TOUR
The terror attacks have led Janet Jackson to scrap the European leg of her much-plagued ''All For You'' tour. ''If anything happened to anyone on this tour, I could never forgive myself,'' Jackson said in a statement released in London. ''Like most people, the events of Sept. 11 have troubled me enormously, and I remain concerned about the foreseeable future.'' She'll refund all tickets purchased for the European tour, which was to have run from October 31 to December 17. Jackson had already postponed several American shows due to health problems including a bout of flu and emergency dental surgery.

Jackson is not the only artist to cancel a European tour; Weezer were supposed to visit the continent next week but have also decided to stay home. Blink-182, however, will play in Europe in November as scheduled. Major tours in the United States are still on, including shows by Aerosmith, Backstreet Boys, Bob Dylan, Maxwell, Britney Spears (who is donating a dollar from each ticket to the relief effort), Rod Stewart, and U2, who recently added 11 American dates and sold them all out....

Kevin Costner Returns to Durham, NC

The Associated Press
Friday, Sept. 28, 2001; 1:01 a.m. EDT

DURHAM, N.C. –– Kevin Costner is returning to Durham, some 12 years after filming "Bull Durham" here.

Costner will be the featured celebrity at the first fund-raiser of the ALS Association Carolina Chapter.

The Feb. 2 event at the Carolina Theatre will honor Major League Baseball's Jim "Catfish" Hunter, a North Carolina native who died in 1999 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks specialized nerve cells called motor neurons, which control the movement of voluntary muscles.

Costner played Crash Davis in 1988's "Bull Durham." The character was inspired by the actual Carolina League catcher of the same name. Davis recently died at age 82 in Gastonia.

Saturday Night Live Preps 'Emotional' Premiere

Saturday Night Live returns this week, but given the current political climate, you probably won't see Will Ferrell doing his dim-witted impression of President Bush.

Following somber returns by comedy purveyors David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Jon Stewart, the long-running live show is also reassessing its usual comedy arsenal.

Executive producer Lorne Michaels said that the comedy show's 27th season premiere will acknowledge the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "in an emotional way, because that's the appropriate way."

Michaels told The Associated Press, "All we can do is focus on getting a show on Saturday that addresses what happened with respect and dignity and, at the same time, do a comedy show that allows people some kind of relief," he said.

Some SNL staff members were forced out of their New York City apartments because of the attacks, and the show had to evacuate briefly from its Rockefeller Center studio, Michaels told The Associated Press Wednesday.

None of the cast members wanted to talk to the press about what it's like to prepare for a show in this atmosphere.

Reese Witherspoon, star of this summer's comedy hit, Legally Blonde is the guest host. Alicia Keys is the musical guest.

Michaels had to revamp the schedule when the Oct. 6 guest host, Ben Stiller, backed out in the wake of the attack. The third-week host, Dude, Where's My Car's Seann William Scott, was moved up a week, and Drew Barrymore agreed to fill in Oct. 13.

Michaels says that putting on the show "[has] gotten a little easier each day. Last week at this time it seemed impossible."

Britney and Justin's Stolen Video Returned

The Florida beach house were lovey-dovey teen pop stars Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were vacationing was burgled on Saturday. Police in Destin, Fla., apprehended four teenagers who made off with $5,000 worth of possessions, including video equipment, liquor bottles, and clothes.

Britney and her 'N Sync beau were out having dinner when the burglary occurred.

Reportedly, none of the stolen items, including a bottle of Jack Daniel's, belonged to the two underage stars.

However, one of the alleged teen thieves was arrested while trying to dub a stolen videotape containing "personal" footage, police say. And we know what you're thinking was on that tape — oh, something along the lines of a Pam Anderson-Tommy Lee private moment? Tsk, tsk. We would never think such things about dear Britney. Whatever was on the tape, police and publicists aren't saying.

The 19-year-old singer kicks off her tour in support of her new album on Oct. 26 in Miami. She's announced she will donate $1 from every ticket to victims of the terrorist attacks.