Actual Housewives of Potomac star Gizelle Bryant and award-winning rapper Eminem are presently at odds with one another due to a trademark dispute.
It now seems their dispute has gone past the courthouse as Bryant, 54, advised PEOPLE throughout an April 27 interview that her youngsters really flip off the radio when Eminem’s music comes up.
“Oh my God, no. And it’s humorous, as a result of if it comes on the radio, within the automotive, my youngsters could be like, ‘That’s Eminem. Flip it,’” Bryant, who has three daughters, stated on the the Love Resort Premiere Screening in Bel-Air. “My youngsters are on prime of it. They know. No, no Eminem for us.”
In December 2023, Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Bryant and her former RHOP forged member Robyn Dixon. The trademark dispute stems from Bryant and Dixon naming their podcast and its associated merchandise, Moderately Shady. Eminem, 52, additionally goes by the moniker “Slim Shady.” He additionally has tasks with “Slim Shady” included within the album titles.
“I discover it to be foolishness. I would like it to be over, for certain,” Bryant stated in reference to the trademark dispute. Whatever the ongoing authorized dispute, Bryant stated their podcast remains to be going sturdy.
“Moderately Shady, it’s nonetheless up and operating,” she stated. “And we’re like 10 million downloads sturdy in our fifth season.”
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“The Eminem lawsuit remains to be going,” Bryant added. “We’re on the tail finish, however you need to perceive, it’s like a Patent and Commerce concern, and so they have their very own timeline for when it’s over. So we’re on their timeline.”
She continued: “Subsequent step is for him to be deposed. And so, we’ll see what occurs from there.” Regardless of not being Eminem followers, Bryant advised PEOPLE that she and her youngsters haven’t any qualms with Dr. Dre, who’s Slim Shady’s longtime collaborator.
Eminem, in an preliminary protecting order that he requested in opposition to Bryant and Dixon, had claimed that being deposed was going to be “unduly burdensome” due to his “restricted information of the topics at concern.”
His supervisor Paul Rosenberg, nevertheless, made himself out there for deposition, claiming that although the SHADY marks are affiliated with Eminem, the rapper is “faraway from the every day actions and particulars that comprise” their “use and promotion.”
However in a September 2024 interview with In Contact Weekly, Bryant and Dixon’s legal professionals acknowledged that “Mr. Mathers’ deposition is important in figuring out possession, validity of rights, way of thinking that pertains to fame, together with precise confusion points, and present use.”
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