Come on down to the TODAY Show Plaza on Tuesday, October 23 to show some love and support for the lovely Miss M when she drops in on TODAY to discuss her debut fragrance M by Mariah Carey.

Be there at 7:45am sharp for a special M fragrance giveaway! The first 190 fans get a free Mariah t-shirt AND a bottle of the fragrance!!

The TODAY Show studios are located at 10 Rockefeller Plaza (West 49th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues) in NYC.

Today we are completing the gallery of pictures with scans of magazines that had Mariah on their covers these last years :
• Glamour UK - 2002
• FHM - 2005
• InStyle Home
• V Magazine

Mariah Sets a Glamour Date
Mariah Carey is all set to perform at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on November 5th at Lincoln Center. After smelling her new fragrance, we’re expecting the same marshmallow-y sweetness from the diva herself.

One huge thing people have been asking Dupri about is a potential duet between Janet and Mariah Carey, especially since they are now labelmates. (JD went so far as to promise a duet featuring the divas on Janet's last album, but it never materialized.) Nelly, for one, wanted to try and pull off the collaboration on his upcoming Brass Knuckles LP, but he couldn't come up with a good enough idea for the song.

"The thing about that is, I don't force an idea," Dupri explained. "It's a great idea if you can come up with the record. It has to be something that's organic. It can't be something we force just because the voices is together. I believe the last couple of records we saw where there are two big artists that came together and collaborated, they don't live up to be the record we want them to be. I was a little disappointed with the R. Kelly and Usher record ['Same Girl']. I thought the record should have been bigger than what it was. ... I wouldn't want to do a song with [Mariah] and Janet and it don't live up to them being as big as they are. ... But [the collaboration] is gonna surface one day. Something is gonna come up, and we gonna say, 'This is it.' "

Mariah Carey has a suggestion for troubled young female celebs: Find your center. When asked by Glamour what words of advice she would give Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, she replied, "I wouldn't want to speak to those people specifically, but I would say you need to be very centered, and spiritually know where you're at, all the time. Don't read the tabloids. Don't be obsessed with what people are writing or saying. Live your life for you. My lifestyle has changed since making it. It's not a financial struggle, but I'm still struggling in a lot of ways." Carey graces the cover of the magazine's November issue.

The marble! The gold! The decor tricks you can steal! On the eve of her huge new album, surprisingly grounded superstar Carey opened her home and her heart to writer Carole Radziwill.



I have to confess: I had never met a diva before Mariah Carey. I wasn’t even sure what one was, so I looked it up. First definition: a woman of outstanding and rare singing talent. Second definition: someone who is difficult to deal with. I’d met plenty of second-definition divas but never an actual one, so, naturally, I had outfit angst. What do you wear to meet a woman who sings in octaves most of us barely know exist? A ball gown? No, too dressy, plus mine has a burn on the sleeve. Jeans? No, too disrespectful. Red lipstick? No, too much. I settled on white pants, an AC/DC concert T-shirt and Chanel lip gloss. Meanwhile, Mariah answered the door herself, low-key, in a ponytail and pink hoodie. So this, I thought, is a diva?

And after spending two hours chatting with her at Tommy Hilfiger’s beach house in East Hampton, New York, which Mariah had rented to work on her latest album (still unnamed as of press time), I realized the diva thing is only something we see on TV. In reality, this megastar was once a shy kid who was self-conscious about her multiracial identity, which marked her as different in the cookie-cutter suburbs of Long Island, New York, where she grew up. After what felt like a lifetime of hard knocks—her parents divorced when she was three years old and her mother moved the family from one place to another, sometimes barely making ends meet—she had her first best-selling album and her first seven-figure paycheck by 20, and a wedding train longer than Princess Di’s at 23. (She married Tommy Mottola, then chairman of her record label’s parent company, Sony Music, in 1993.) That may sound like a fairy tale, but Carey’s the first to scoff at those who say it was—she paid her own way to the ball!

Her marriage ended in divorce in 1998. Then, in 2001, Mariah checked herself into a hospital for exhaustion, creating a tabloid frenzy. But two months later she was onstage again, serenading the nation at the 9/11 “America: A Tribute to Heroes” telethon. Now, at 37, she’s sold 160 million albums worldwide, earned five Grammys and is tied for number-one hits in the United States with none other than Elvis Presley. Oh, and she launched her own M by Mariah Carey fragrance in September and is preparing for her new album tour. Privately, the star with a set of pipes and a sense of humor (she dubbed her home with ex Mottola “Sing Sing”) has created her own paradise in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood, where she moved in 2001. It’s a triplex penthouse apartment decorated in shades of gold and pink, with framed family snapshots covering practically every surface. At the photo shoot, Mariah gave me a complete home tour and opened up about everything from her obsession with lounge chairs to her dysfunctional childhood and her current love life.

Thank God, I told her, for that childhood. Had she grown up like every other girl on Long Island, she probably wouldn’t have had the ambition to make it so big.

Glamour: I watched you on YouTube last night, singing “America the Beautiful” at the NBA finals in 1990—one of your earliest TV appearances [at age 20].

MARIAH CAREY: I was a little malnourished, wasn’t I?

Glamour: Yes, you looked like you weighed 80 pounds. And most of that was hair.

MC: [Laughs.] Well, I did my own hair then. No one even knew who I was! I was such a little girl.

Glamour: How old were you when you got your first big paycheck?

MC: I was about 20. I went from having $5 to getting a publishing advance of $1 million.

Glamour: Tell me about your so-called Cinderella story.

MC: [Laughs.] When Tommy [Mottola] signed me, I had two other record deals pending. I had already put in the hard work and I had my life planned but nobody likes to talk about that. I guess fairy tales make better stories.

Glamour: Yes, they do. What advice would you give that little girl now? Or someone like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears who always seems to be messing up?

MC: I wouldn’t want to speak to those people specifically, but I would say you need to be very centered, and spiritually know where you’re at, all the time. Don’t read the tabloids. Don’t be obsessed with what people are writing or saying. Live your life for you. My lifestyle has changed since making it. It’s not a financial struggle, but I’m still struggling in a lot of ways.

To read the rest of our interview with Mariah Carey and see exclusive photos inside her home, pick up the November issue of Glamour, or subscribe now.

The one and only Mariah Carey is coming to Macy's Herald Square on Tuesday, October 23 at 5PM to debut her new fragrance, M by Mariah Carey and if you'd like to meet her, here's the scoop!

Beginning Friday, October 19 at store opening in fragrances on the main floor, the first 200 customers to the special M by Mariah Carey fragrance set priced at $130 will receive a special pass so they can meet Mariah and get her autograph. The first 50 customers to purchase the special VIP M by Mariah Carey fragrance set priced at $305 will get a VIP pass that entitles them to a photo with Mariah, an exclusive M by Mariah Carey crystal accented tee shirt and a pure parfum.

Please note only items provided by Macy's will be signed and only those photos taken by Macy's for VIP customers will be allowed. Thank you and see you on October 23rd at 5pm!

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has credited his success to pop diva Mariah Carey. The hunky TV actor was handpicked by Carey for her 2005 video We Belong Together - and Miller insists the exposure of the promo convinced producers to give him the lead in hit U.S. drama, Prison Break.

He says, "Mariah's an international icon. The two days I spent working on her video did more for my career, gave me more exposure, than anything I'd done before Prison Break. I'm grateful for the opportunity."

Had Mariah Carey and her ex-hubby music mogul Tommy Mottola agreed for a trial separation, they would have still been together, the singer reveals.
Carey said that her marriage had too many boundaries for her and she needed a break. "Maybe it's for my own good that I wasn't allowed to do those things, but that's not how it felt," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

Mariah claimed that her husband stopped her from even visiting the spa with her friends.
"I understand him not wanting me to go out and hang out all night, but going to a spa with friends every now and then, or doing things on my own would have made a world of difference," she said. "I'd probably still be with him if I had. I felt like suddenly I had a strict father. I didn't think I was gonna leave forever... Had it been, 'Go be yourself, you've been with me since you were a kid, let's separate for a while,' I probably would've," she said.

Mariah Carey got a win in court last week when a federal judge decided that a copyright-infringement case against her had no merit.

Singer Rachele Chafir had sued Carey in April 2006, claiming that Carey's hit "It's Like That" was copied from her song "Sexy" and lifted key pieces, including the music, for the chorus. Chafir, who copyrighted the song in 2004, claimed Carey had access to "Sexy" since it was available on a Web site, but U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood decided that wasn't proof Carey or her collaborators had gone to the Web site or lifted the material, which wasn't "strikingly similar" enough to be considered infringement. With "no genuine issues of material fact," Wood closed the case. "It was the right decision," Carey's lawyer Ilene Farkas told MTV News. "The record was clear in this case."

Meanwhile, Carey is moving on with her yet-untitled follow-up to The Emancipation of Mimi, which her record label confirmed is now due December 4.