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ROCHESTER, Mich. - Eminem remarried his high school sweetheart Saturday, a month after the superstar rapper announced they were getting back together, his publicist said.
"I can confirm that they were married this evening," said Dennis Dennehy, a spokesman for Eminem's label, Interscope Records.
News helicopters hovered overhead and paparazzi congregated outside Meadow Brook Hall as the rapper born Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Kim Mathers arrived by limousine and were whisked inside the 110-room mansion built for auto baron John Dodge's widow 80 years ago.
"Family and close friends were in attendance, including members of D12, 50 Cent, Obie Trice and members of G-Unit," Dennehy said. He said D12's Proof, whose real name is Deshaun Holton, served as best man.
Dinner was lobster tails and filet mignon, and New York DJ Lord Sear provided the music for the reception, Dennehy said.
The couple is planning a honeymoon later this year, Dennehy said.
Their first marriage ended after two-plus years in October 2001 in an ugly legal fight that included a custody battle over their young daughter.
Eminem, 33, and Kim Mathers, 30, reconciled in late 2004, and he announced in December that the two would get back together.
Kim Mathers applied for a marriage license last week, and Detroit television station WXYZ showed an invitation to "join them as they exchange vows and the celebration of their new life together."
The pair grew up in suburbs along Eight Mile Road, Detroit's northern border.
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One of music's most storied couples added another page to their history book Saturday when Detroit rapper Eminem and Kim Mathers re-tied the knot at a closely guarded ceremony at Meadow Brook Hall.
Eminem's Interscope Records publicist Dennis Dennehy confirmed to The Detroit News that the couple exchanged their vows, and that specific details of the wedding were kept private, and guests and workers alike were asked to sign confidentiality agreements to keep them from speaking to the media.
Family and close friends who were in attendance, including 50 Cent, members of D12, Obie Trice and members of G-Unit, were served lobster tail and filet mignon, Dennehy said. D12 rapper and Eminem's right-hand man Proof was Em's best man and New York DJ Lord Sear spun tunes at the reception.
On the Oakland University campus Saturday afternoon, a roadblock guarded by three campus police vehicles was set up at the entrance to Sunset Lane, which leads to Mansion Drive, on which Meadow Brook Hall is located.
At least four stretch limousines -- one thought to be carrying Eminem -- were ushered past the police barricades and to the mansion's front door before 5 p.m.
About 35 people -- including representatives from media outlets from New York, Los Angeles and Toronto -- gathered outside the barricade, as three helicopters hovered above trying to get a peek at the action. Journalists from In Touch, People and Star magazines were on site covering the event.
Fans braved the cold and windy weather, too, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the wedding's celebrity guests or even the happy couple.
"This kind of stuff happens in Hollywood, not here in Rochester Hills," said Cassandra Tordosinsky, a 33-year-old Eminem fan who lives down the street from Meadow Brook Hall.
"It's kind of neat to be a part of it."
Dion Emelian, 30, of Shelby Township said he saw Eminem pass by him in a black stretch limo. How did he know it was the hip-hop superstar?
"He flipped us off," Emelian said. "That's OK, we don't mind. That's his way."
On a June afternoon in 1999, Marshall Mathers married Kimberly Scott in a small ceremony kept painstakingly private -- an act of showbiz image control to nurture the rapper's rising fame.
At 5 p.m. today in Rochester Hills, where the since-divorced couple are planning to remarry, the ceremony will again be small and painstakingly private -- this time because Eminem's huge fame demands it.
After a month-long public guessing game and intense secrecy by Detroit's biggest music star, sources said Friday that the venerable Meadow Brook Hall will be the site of the year's first big celebrity wedding and reception.
Tonight's tightly guarded event is the latest episode of intrigue in an often-turbulent romance that has played out on the pop charts, thanks to Eminem's use of it as lyrical fodder.
There are a few key differences between that quiet first wedding in St. Joseph, Mo., and this evening's nuptials -- which until Friday were unconfirmed to all but a close handful of Mathers' friends and family members.
Tonight, a virtual army of security is expected to man the site's perimeter, and high-tech floodlights will illuminate much of the 1,200-acre site to deter would-be interlopers -- both overzealous fans and prying reporters. The local workers who are to staff the event, from caterers to valets to servers, signed strict confidentiality agreements to prevent them from revealing information.
In '99, with Eminem's first album selling steadily, about three people watched the onetime teen sweethearts exchange vows. Tonight, many millions of sales later, the intimate guest list of about 80 -- mostly family -- includes rapper 50 Cent and members of his G-Unit hip-hop crew.
Detroit rapper Proof, Eminem's right-hand man onstage for years, will be aside him as best man. Hailie Jade Mathers, the couple's 10-year-old daughter, will stroll down the aisle as flower girl. Eminem's mother, whom he has battled in court and in song, was not invited, a source close to the family said this week.
Before Eminem, 33, and Kim Mathers, 30, became one of the most storied couples in entertainment -- with the tabloids lapping up their rocky romance, her drug-related legal problems and their 2001 divorce -- the couple agreed to hide the news of their first wedding, figuring a bachelor image was best for his budding public career, Eminem's former publicist told the Free Press.
Tonight's event, which follows the rapper's December announcement that the couple had reconciled and would remarry, has been kept so secret that even many of Detroit's music power players were clueless about the most basic details.
Reporters and photographers from a host of media, including People magazine and the Star tabloid, dug around Detroit this week for details -- mostly coming up short as the Eminem camp maintained a tight grip on wedding information. Though tidbits trickled out, some speculated the details could be a decoy.
At the Web site for Meadow Brook Hall, a popular wedding site on the Oakland University campus, a schedule of the building's closure dates -- most of them standard holidays -- says that today the hall will be closed for maintenance.
