EMINEM - EMINEM DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS REFERRED TO MEDIATOR

EMINEM DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS REFERRED TO MEDIATOR

LATEST: Oscar-winning rapper EMINEM's divorce proceedings with wife KIMBERLY MATHERS have been referred to a mediator. The couple attended an hour-long private hearing today (19SEP06) in Michigan and MAComb County Circuit Judge ANTONIO VIVIANO subsequently told reporters the case was being turned over to a mediator. Lawyers for both parties say a date for mediation hasn't been set. Opposing lawyers HARVEY HAUER and MICHAEL J SMITH, who represent Eminem and his estranged wife respectively, said they hope the case will be settled amicably. Mathers declined to make a comment on the way out of the courthouse and Eminem - real name MARSHALL MATHERS - wasn't seen leaving the building. Eminem filed for divorce on 5 April (06), 82 days after the couple remarried. The rapper remarried Mathers in Rochester, Michigan, on 14 January (06) - one month after the couple announced they were getting back together. Their first marriage lasted from 1999 until 2001.