Eminem Slams Real Housewives Stars in Trademark Dispute

Eminem’s newest feud isn’t with another rapper –  it’s with two Real Housewives he says are badgering him behind the scenes. 

The 53-year-old rapper, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, claims Real Housewives of Potomac star Gizelle Bryant and former castmate Robyn Dixon are ‘harassing’ him over a deposition tied to their long-simmering trademark fight.

The Housewives recently filed a motion accusing the Oscar winner of blowing off a court-ordered sit-down… and he is not letting it slide, firing back in a newly filed response obtained by the Daily Mail. 

The feud dates back to 2023, when Bryant, 55, and Dixon, 46, attempted to trademark the title of their Reasonably Shady podcast. 

Eminem — who has spent decades branded as Slim Shady — swooped in to oppose the filing, arguing their use of ‘shady’ was too close for comfort. 

What followed has been two years of back-and-forth legal sparring.

Now the Housewives insist the rapper and his team are dodging them, claiming they’ve been stuck in a scheduling nightmare while trying to pin down Eminem’s deposition date.

According to their filing, they were finally given October 29 after ‘weeks’ of wrangling — only to be told the superstar would appear for just two hours and only if they agreed to a 2 p.m. start. 

They say his attorney warned, ‘Getting our client to commit to a deposition is very difficult and we suggest that you take the opportunity when you can get him.’

Bryant and Dixon bristled at what they called a ‘take it or leave it’ approach, insisting the late start window would complicate things for their legal vendors, who work standard business hours. 

They argued there was no explanation for why the rapper ‘could only start at 2 p.m.’ and blasted his team’s refusal to agree to a short discovery extension. 

In their words, his lawyer ‘has not made a good faith effort to make [Eminem] available for a deposition.’

On November 11, Eminem hit back.

His attorney said the Housewives were exaggerating the issue and rushing to court instead of sticking to negotiations. 

The rapper insisted he was willing to run the deposition ‘as late as was necessary’ to make the timing work.

The response shot down the Housewives’ claims bluntly, stating their ‘refusal to cooperate and insistence in filing a motion over a 3-hour start-time difference highlights that [their] pursuit of [Eminem’s] deposition is designed to harass.’

Eminem’s team even argued that, contrary to the Housewives’ complaints, scheduling a court reporter outside normal hours was entirely possible.

But the rapper also pointed to the real obstacle: his day job.

His lawyer said Eminem ‘cannot begin before early afternoon Eastern’ because he’s tied up in studio sessions for new music — a point that was driven home by his longtime manager, Paul Rosenberg, who filed a detailed declaration explaining just how disruptive a morning deposition would be.

Rosenberg wrote, ‘[Eminem] is presently working on new music for various projects which requires his daily attendance… It is not only difficult and very expensive for him to be out of his studio at such times, but it will also put him behind schedule for the various contracts which have been promised by dates certain.’

He added that skipping the studio in the morning could derail an entire day’s work for multiple engineers and collaborators, calling it ‘a very expensive loss of time and expense to [Eminem] and other parties.’

Rosenberg emphasized that as Eminem closes in on deadlines, it’s ‘imperative’ that he be in the studio daily, saying the rapper already has ‘appointments scheduled throughout November and December,’ making a deposition this month a costly and difficult ask.

Daily Mail has not received a response to its request for comment from reps for Eminem, Bryant, or Dixon. 

The Patent and Trademark Office has not yet issued a ruling — but the Housewives don’t seem rattled.

Speaking at BravoCon in Las Vegas earlier this month, Dixon quipped about the rapper’s refusal to let go of the word he made famous. 

‘He’s still being shady,’ she told fans. ‘We’re still going down the road with the lawsuit. And we’re fighting it. We’re going to win, at some point.’

And the Housewives aren’t the only ones in Slim Shady’s legal crosshairs. 

Just last week, Eminem launched a separate fight — this time against an Australian beach brand whose name hits a little too close to home.

The rapper sued Swim Shady, a Sydney-based company founded in 2023 that sells windproof sun shades, beach towels, and other seaside gear, after it successfully trademarked its name in the U.S. earlier this year.