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Eminem is turning up the pressure on The Real Housewives of Potomac stars Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon as their years-long legal battle over the name of their Reasonably Shady podcast continues.
The Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has filed a new motion seeking a partial legal victory without going to trial, arguing that Gizelle and Robyn never had genuine plans to sell certain products under their Reasonably Shady brand.
According to AllHipHop, Eminem filed a motion for partial summary judgment on October 19, asking the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to reject portions of the Housewives’ trademark application covering cosmetics and candles.
The latest filing marks another significant development in a dispute that began in 2023, when Eminem first challenged the women’s attempt to trademark their podcast name.
At the center of the controversy is whether Gizelle and Robyn genuinely intended to expand their brand into beauty and lifestyle products when they submitted their application in February 2022.
Eminem’s legal team argues that the evidence collected throughout the proceedings demonstrates that the women had no concrete business plans to sell makeup, eye shadow, lip gloss or candles under the Reasonably Shady name.
His attorneys claim that after years of discovery, Gizelle and Robyn have failed to produce records showing meaningful preparations to develop or launch those products.
The rapper’s latest motion argues that there is no genuine dispute about the lack of documented intent and that the board should rule in his favor on this particular claim without proceeding to trial.
But Gizelle and Robyn are pushing back.
The RHOP stars have maintained that they genuinely intended to expand their podcast brand when they submitted their original trademark application.
The women launched Reasonably Shady in 2021, quickly building a following through their candid conversations about relationships, motherhood, reality television and their personal lives.
As their podcast grew, they began developing merchandise and exploring opportunities to expand the brand beyond the show itself.
In February 2022, Gizelle and Robyn filed an application to protect the Reasonably Shady name across multiple categories, including podcast services, clothing, accessories, beauty products and candles.
However, Eminem objected to the application in February 2023.
The rapper argued that Reasonably Shady could create confusion among consumers because of his longstanding association with the names Shady and Slim Shady.
Eminem has spent decades building his brand around those names, using them in connection with his music career and merchandise.
Gizelle and Robyn, however, have maintained that their podcast name has nothing to do with the rapper.
The women have previously explained that the name was inspired by their personalities, with Robyn representing the reasonable side of their friendship and Gizelle embracing her reputation for being shady.
As the dispute continued, both sides became increasingly frustrated.
Gizelle and Robyn previously sought to question Eminem directly as part of the proceedings, while his legal team pushed back on certain deposition requests.
The Housewives also accused the rapper of unnecessarily prolonging the legal fight and increasing their legal expenses.
But the latest development centers on a different issue: whether the women had legitimate plans to sell cosmetics and candles when they first applied for trademark protection.
One piece of evidence cited by Eminem’s attorneys comes from Robyn’s July 2023 deposition.
During questioning about the proposed products, Robyn acknowledged that the women did not have current plans to launch them.
“No current plans, but that’s not to say that we would never,” Robyn testified.
Eminem’s legal team argues that her testimony supports its position that the women lacked genuine intent to use the trademark in those categories.
However, Robyn has since disputed that interpretation.
In a September 2026 declaration, she explained that her testimony referred to the status of their business in July 2023, not their intentions when they filed the application in February 2022.
Robyn maintained that the products were included because the women genuinely wanted to expand their existing brand into new categories.
She denied that the application was simply an attempt to reserve the Reasonably Shady name or prevent other businesses from using it.
The distinction is important because trademark applicants can seek protection before products officially go on sale, provided they have a legitimate, good-faith intention to use the mark.
Gizelle and Robyn have argued that their existing podcast business and merchandise sales demonstrate that they were building a real consumer brand.
Their legal team has pointed to products such as hoodies, hats, shirts, mugs and autographed paddles as evidence that Reasonably Shady was already operating as a commercial business.
They maintain that expanding into beauty and lifestyle merchandise was a reasonable next step, even if those products had not yet been manufactured or sold.
Eminem’s attorneys disagree, arguing that an existing podcast and merchandise business does not automatically establish genuine plans to launch every product category listed in a trademark application.
The dispute intensified in August 2026 when the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board granted Eminem permission to add the lack-of-intent claim to his opposition.
Gizelle and Robyn had argued that the additional claim came too late and would force them to spend more money defending their application.
However, the board rejected their objections, allowing Eminem to pursue the argument and reopening discovery through September 30.
That decision did not establish that Gizelle and Robyn lacked genuine intent. It simply allowed Eminem to pursue the additional challenge.
Now, the rapper is asking the board to go a step further and rule in his favor on that issue based on the evidence already collected.
The latest motion does not mean that Eminem has won the trademark battle, nor does it automatically prevent Gizelle and Robyn from continuing to use Reasonably Shady as the name of their podcast.
Instead, he is seeking a ruling on the specific portions of their trademark application involving cosmetics and candles.
The broader dispute over whether the Reasonably Shady name conflicts with Eminem’s existing trademarks remains an important part of the case.
For Gizelle and Robyn, the legal battle has continued even as their reality television careers have evolved.
Robyn departed RHOP as a full-time Housewife following Season 8 but has since returned to the franchise, while Gizelle remains one of Potomac’s most recognizable original cast members.
The two have also continued their Reasonably Shady podcast, maintaining their professional partnership despite the ongoing trademark dispute.
And while the women have previously expressed frustration with Eminem’s legal challenges, their latest disagreement is no longer simply about whether the two brands sound too similar.
It is now also about whether the Housewives can prove that their plans to expand Reasonably Shady into cosmetics and candles were genuine from the beginning.
For now, the legal fight is far from over.
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has not issued a final ruling on Eminem’s October 19 motion, leaving Gizelle and Robyn facing another hurdle in their efforts to secure broader trademark protection for their podcast brand.
