Article: Newsmakers: This week: Mariah Carey and David Duchovny.(Brief Article)(Interview)

A Butterfly Tries to Spread Her Wings

First there was the breakdown, then the breakup and now the breaking deal. Some considered Mariah Carey's career over after last year's mental meltdown and ill-fated stretch with Virgin Records (it bought out the diva's contract for $28 million). But the singer was recently the subject of a bidding frenzy that found just about every major label wining and dining the former pariah until Carey, 32, chose Universal's Island Def Jam Records last week. It doled out a reported $20 million for a minimum of three records to be released on Carey's own label and distributed through Island. "I'm feeling great--honestly," Carey told ...

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