Robyn Dixon and Gizelle Bryant may be Real Housewives — but they will never be the real Slim Shady, if Eminem has anything to say about it.
Rapper Marshall "Eminem" Mathers is on a legal mission to prove he's the real Shady after "Real Housewives of Potomac" stars Dixon and Bryant attempted to trademark "Reasonably Shady" — the title of their hit podcast — last year. An attorney for Dixon and Bryant told The Times on Tuesday that the reality-TV duo intend "to defend their trademark application" despite the "Real Slim Shady" artist's motion to block it.
A court filing submitted Tuesday to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states that Mathers "believes he will be damaged by the issuance of a registration for the mark REASONABLY SHADY" because it "resembles" Eminem's longtime nicknames, Shady and Slim Shady.
