Who was Mariah Carey's first husband?

Mariah Carey's first husband was music executive Tommy Mottola. The pair married on June 5, 1993, at Saint Thomas Church in New York City, while Mottola was chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment.

Mottola played a major role in Carey's early career: he signed her to Columbia Records after hearing her demo and helped guide the launch of her self-titled 1990 debut album. Their marriage took place during the period when Carey was becoming one of pop music's biggest new stars. They later lived in a large estate in Bedford, New York, which Carey reportedly nicknamed "Sing Sing."

Carey and Mottola separated in December 1996, publicly announced the separation in 1997, and divorced on March 4, 1998. Derek Jeter was a later romantic partner, James Packer was a later fiancé, and Nick Cannon became her second husband in 2008, so none of those choices is the answer to the question about her first husband.