Eminem is dating his longtime stylist Katrina Malota, a source confirms to Us Weekly.
TMZ was first to interrupt the news, reporting on Friday, October 17, that Malota has worked on several of Eminem’s music videos and photoshoots.
Neither Eminem, 53, nor Malota have publicly addressed the status of their relationship. Us has reached out to reps for each for comment.
Malota is a hairstylist in Birmingham, Michigan, where she sees clients on the local 6 Salon.
“Katrina Malota is a renowned stylist and makeup artist from Birmingham, Michigan. She is some of the in-demand hairstylists in each entertainment and fashion industries,” an outline on her official website reads. “A real visual artist within the industry having worked on countless runway shows from NYC to Paris creating incomparable styles for the world’s leading fashion designers to mentoring graduating talent on the world renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and taking over complete degree collection looks.”
Malota’s website further revealed that her “cutting-edge” designs have been featured in multiple magazine spreads, gaining the eye of various stars, including Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers), Snoop Dogg, Robin Thicke and 50 Cent.
“With clientele in her hometown of Birmingham, Michigan, Miami [and] Latest York, yow will discover her behind the chair, in addition to [at] an evening video shoot with certainly one of the music industries most in-demand artists that she has built loyal relations with through the years,” the web description adds. “Katrina is a multi-faceted, multitalented force to be reckoned with that’s as electric and magnetic as her work.”
Eminem, meanwhile, has kept his love life private lately.
“It’s tough. Since my divorce I’ve had a number of dates and nothing’s panned out in a way that I desired to make it public,” the rapper told Vulture of his romantic life in a 2017 profile. “Dating’s just not where I’m at recently.”
In line with Eminem, he would occasionally meet women on dating apps or by “going to strip clubs.”
“What can I say? Going to strip clubs is how I used to be meeting some chicks,” he told the outlet. “It was an interesting time for me.”
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Eminem was previously (and famously) married to Kim Scott from 1999 to 2001 and again for 3 months in 2006. Eminem and Scott, 50, share daughter Hailie Jade. The 8 Mile star also adopted daughter Alaina, the biological child of Scott’s sister, and son Steve, Scott’s child from a previous relationship.
“They really have an amazing relationship now as parents,” a second source told Us in 2013 of Eminem and Scott’s coparenting dynamic. “They’re together on a regular basis for the sake of the children. … Despite all the things Em has been through, he’s all the time been a tremendous father, and all the time had a spot in his heart for Kim due to their history and the children.”
Eminem and Scott recently became grandparents when Hailie Jade, 29, welcomed son Elliot in March. Alaina, for her part, is currently expecting a baby of her own early next yr.