Eminem has settled a lawsuit filed against him by a man he allegedly pulled a gun on for kissing his wife. The controversial rapper has agreed to pay John Guerra $100,000 (£69,574), less legal costs.

Mr Guerra sued Eminem a few days after a fracas outside a bar in Warren, Detroit. The local man was said to have kissed Eminem's then-wife, Kimberly Mathers, in public before the rapper pulled an unloaded hand gun and allegedly hit him in the face.

Eminem was later sentenced to two years probation for carrying a concealed weapon and ordered to undergoing counselling and drug testing.

Neither Eminem nor Mr Guerra have admitted liablity or wrongdoing as part of the settlement John Gaber, one of Guerra's lawyers, told the newspaper the settlement was "less than we wanted, but more than they had been hoping to pay."

His rise to fame has been blighted by legal cases and family members attempting to sue him. His mother unsuccessfully tried to sue for $10m (£6.9m) for lyrics in the song My Name Is, which she said were defamatory.

A French pianist is the latest person to file a lawsuit against the rap artist. Jacques Loussier is seeking $10m (£7m) from Eminem and his record company after alleging that his album track Kill You copied his jazz-fusion song Pulsion.

Loussier is complaining that the backing track to Kill You is strikingly similar to his instrumental. He is seeking a ban on the broadcast of Kill You, which appears on Eminem's hit album The Marshall Mathers LP. He also wants to stop sales of the album and wants any copies that are still on sale to be destroyed.