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August 30, 2003 - Eminem, Jessica Simpson, Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, Carmen Electra, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC, Ludacris, were amongst the stars on hand for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday (August 28) at the Rockefeller Plaza and Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Check out the pictures here.

August 30, 2003 - MTV's Video Music Awards website has highlight clips from Thursday's awards, including Snoop Dogg and Adam Sandler on stage together talkin' shizzle, and Eminem beating down Special Ed from Avenue Q. Check out the clips here.

August 30, 2003 - She locked lips with Britney Spears. She locked lips with Christina Aguilera. And the controversial pop diva Madonna was still on a kissing roll - finishing her night at the MTV Video Music Awards by planting one on rapper Eminem. Check the picture out on MadonnaLicious.com.

August 29, 2003 - During Chris Rock's opening monologue of the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday, he joked, "You got a lot of rappers separating, you can have 50 Cent going nowhere near Ja Rule. Nobody got no beef with Eminem. Ain nobody saying nothing. I'm not even going to say nothing bad about Eminem, because way too much stuff rhymes with Rock, all right. Eminem don't even like his own mama, so lord knows what he'll say about your black ass, okay. And Eminem is a white rapper, so his record is going to be on every station, the country station, the talk station. The black rappers just on Hot 97."

August 29, 2003 - Eminem picked up Best Video in a Film for 'Lose Yourself' at last night's Video Music Awards. He told the crowd upon receiving the award: "What's up, man? ( Cheers and applause) okay. 50, tell me if I win an award he wants to come out here and hold this for me so he gets used to how heavy they are because he's probably going to get a lot of them. I brought this out here, I want to make sure I don't forget nobody. Cutter Sampson, Jimmy, Paul Rosenberg, Philip Atwell, the city of Detroit for inspiring me, and Hailie if you're watching I love you. All my fans, everybody, thank you. Once again, thank you."

August 28, 2003 - The New York Post reports news outlets learned yesterday that Eminem, 50 Cent and Obie Trice will be performing together at tonight's MTV Video Music Awards when photographers were asked to sign a two-page "photo session agreement" limiting their shots to "one time usage" only of the trio. "It's very unusual," an insider said, explaining that it's a scary precedent for photo editors, who fear that every artist will soon have his/her own contract that photographers will be forced to sign.

August 23, 2003 - Mariah Carey tells Extra from backstage at her U.S. tour that she knows Eminem, but the two never had any sexual encounter. Mariah says, "There's always going to be rumors about celebrities, no matter who they are. Some of them are real; some of them are going to be fake. I can't live my life worrying about that because I've been in the public eye too long and I'm used to that." Watch a video clip, which includes Mariah talking about being on the cover of Maxim magazine, and plans for her new album, 'Mariah Carey the Re-Mixes', here.

August 23, 2003 - According to MTV.com, Eminem's 'Girls Gone Wild Shadystyle' video, which was shot last year during his Anger Management tour, may never be released. The video's production company released a statement saying that it "wasn't happy with Eminem's participation and is not happy with the finished product." Eminem's reps confirmed that the video, which documents Eminem's female fans taking their tops off backstage, will not be released. Read more.

August 21, 2003 - In her interview with Maxim magazine, Mariah Carey has again denied having a sexual relationship with Eminem. "Yeah, it happened. Did I have a sexual relationship with him? No, I didn't," Carey said. "I knew him, I hung out with him a few times, but nothing sexual occurred. I'd admit it if it did, but it didn't. And that's why I was so upset about the whole thing, because I was like, 'Look, if I had an intimate relationship with the person that would be one thing, but...maybe he thought because nothing happened he'd look bad or something'." Read more.

August 21, 2003 - Eminem often got a thrill when bisexual ex-wife Kim brought girls home after boozy nights out, his uncle Todd Nelson says in a Sky One documentary. "Kim has a sexual hold on him because of her bisexuality," Nelson said. "She brings women home and puts them in bed with her, and when Marshall comes in he doesn’t come home to just Kim — he comes home to whatever’s in bed. Why would you not want a wife that has other women waiting for you? It’s every man’s dream, right?" Read more.

August 19, 2003 - The Las Vegas Sun reports that a federal lawsuit filed against Eminem by three Vegas businessmen continues to move forward. The suit alleges Mathers has sold items marked with the words, "Shady Limited." William S. Wallace, Kevin Thomas and Nathan Moon contend that they own the rights to that trademark. Read more.

August 18, 2003 - Blender magazine spoke with Obie Trice in their Next Big Thing feature, where he talked about being Eminem's new prodigy. "I owe it all to Marshall," he said. "That man saved my life." Trice spoke of the time he was nearly killed selling crack. "This one guy, high on crack, held a gun to my head, creaming that he was going to shoot me. As soon as he turned his back, I jumped out the window, glass everywhere, fell into the backyard and ran up the street, just waiting for the bullet to crack my skull." But prison and becoming a father convinced him to go straight.

August 16, 2003 - RatetheMusic.com reports that an Eminem look-a-like will be posing with porn queen Ginger Lynn for a full-on sex pictorial in the new issue of Hustler magazine. Lynn had talked about sex fantasies with the rapper after starring with him in the 'Superman' video, and now her wish will come true to some degree.

August 14, 2003 - The New York Daily News caught up with Funkmaster Flex ahead of the debut of his new Spike TV series 'Ride With Funkmaster Flex', premiering Saturday at 7:30 PM ET/PT. The first episode features Eminem. "There are good car shows on TV," said Flex. "But I felt like there was nothing for kids 18 to 34. Take muscle cars. People think of them as for adults, but they didn't start out that way. They were something kids could own and mess around with. You could buy one for $2,000, put $500 into it and you had some serious power." Read more.

August 13, 2003 - Teen Scene magazine caught up with actress Brittany Murphy and asked the '8 Mile' star about Eminem, who she was romantically linked to briefly during filming. "To me, he was Marshall. He’s a family man, an extraordinary worker and gives everything to his daughter," Murphy gushed. "He’s one of the hardest working, determined, brilliant people that I have ever met in my life and I think that it’s great that the world is getting to know different sides of him. He’s constantly been judged for what he says, tongue in cheek, and finally people are realizing a lot more about him which is great." Read more.

August 13, 2003 - The Sun reports that Eminem hasn't taken a vacation since he's made it big, worried that he'd develop writer's block. "I wanna take a break but then I get fu**ing angsty," he said. "I get frustrated that I'll get writer's block. That's my worst fear, that I'll wake up tomorrow and won't be able to write."

August 13, 2003 - 50 Cent won four awards Friday night at the Billboard R&B-Hip-Hop Awards, including top artist, while his mentor Eminem took home three honors, including top album. Check out the entire list of winners here.

August 11, 2003 - Mikael Wood of the Dallas Observer spoke with 'Weird Al' Yankovic about Eminem's refusal to let you do a video for 'Couch Potato' and whether he worried that stars are getting too silly and self-reflexive on their own. Yankovic responded, "That's the reason it took me so long to get around to doing Eminem, because he was certainly big enough to lampoon a year ago, but you can't really make fun of a song like 'Without Me' or 'The Real Slim Shady,' because there's a certain amount of self-awareness there, and they're already tongue-in-cheek swipes at pop culture to begin with; it would've been sort of redundant to do a parody of that. Whereas 'Lose Yourself' was a very serious kind of anthem, and those are always the best to make fun of--it's always better to get a very serious song and to inject a little humor into it." Read more.

August 11, 2003 - Soundhog has mixed Eminem's 'Superman' with Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. Download and listen to 'Enter Superman' here.

August 11, 2003 - Launch.com reports that Eminem has decided not to appear in Michigan's Macomb County Circuit Court on August 18th when his attorney will ask a judge to dismiss a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed against him by former schoolmate DeAngelo Bailey. Read more.

August 11, 2003 - USA Today reports Showtime and Interscope Records have teamed to produce a six-part series designed to discover the hottest new prospect in hip-hop. 'Interscope Presents The Next', which is expected to begin airing in October, is part talent contest and part documentary, with each episode culminating in one-on-one rap battles. Though clearly part of the reality-show stampede, The Next is less inspired by 'American Idol' than by the Eminem starring '8 Mile'. "This can be more of an R-rated show," says executive producer Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager and vice president of Shady Records. "On a PG-style show, these guys would be disqualified for cussing. A new artist isn't used to censoring himself. When you're thinking off the top of your head, some naughty words might slip out." Read more.

August 7, 2003 - The Detroit News reports that Eminem will appear before a Michigan judge later this month. He's expected to ask for the dismissal of a lawsuit against him filed by a former school-mate, DeAngelo Bailey who is seeking $1 million over the song. Eminem's dismissal request contends that the song is accurate, and that Bailey threatened and intimidated him in grade school. "I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey," Eminem says in the song. "An eighth-grader who acted obnoxious everyday he'd shove me into lockers." 

August 4, 2003 - Mariah Carey again commented on Eminem in the September issue of Maxim. She admits, "I knew him, I hung out with him a few times, but nothing sexual occurred. I'd admit it if it did, but it didn't."

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