LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian and her mom, Kris Jenner, are suing her ex-boyfriend Ray J for saying they’re underneath federal investigation and on the verge of being indicted.
The defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom on Wednesday by the truth TV stars and businesspeople is a quick and aggressive pushback towards allegations they are saying are totally baseless.
They are saying Ray J, whose authorized identify is Ray Norwood Jr., falsely claimed that he was working with federal investigators on a racketeering case towards them that may quickly result in their indictment.
The lawsuit says Ray J’s feedback are a part of a “sustained marketing campaign of harassment and defamation” that has gone on for years.
“Unable to simply accept the top of his fleeting relationship with Ms. Kardashian over twenty years in the past, Ray J has repeatedly sought to connect himself to Plaintiffs’ names and exploit their prominence for private acquire,” the lawsuit says.
The ladies say two current statements crossed a line and compelled a lawsuit.
The courtroom submitting factors to a TMZ particular that aired in Could, during which Ray J mentioned “racketeering expenses towards the Kardashians could be applicable,” and “in the event you informed me that the Kardashians had been being charged for racketeering, I would imagine it.”
He went additional in a Sept. 30 livestream that based on the lawsuit had thousands and thousands of viewers, saying, “The federal RICO I’m about to drop on Kris and Kim is about to be loopy” and “the feds is coming.” He added that the racketeering case could be “worse than Diddy.”
An e-mail to a Ray J consultant looking for remark was not instantly answered.
The lawsuit says he gave no proof for his “blatantly false” statements.
“No such federal investigation exists; no regulation enforcement company has initiated any legal proceedings or investigations associated to racketeering expenses towards Ms. Kardashian or Ms. Jenner; and no credible proof in any respect helps these inflammatory allegations,” it says.
Ray J is a singer, actor and brother to pop star Brandy. However he in all probability stays greatest identified for his relationship with Kardashian, and a intercourse tape exhibiting the couple that was leaked in 2007.
“Ray J’s acknowledged animosity towards the Kardashian household, coupled together with his demonstrated willingness to lie for consideration, leaves no room for doubt that his current RICO statements had been neither careless nor impulsive,” the lawsuit says. “They had been the newest salvo in a deliberate and malicious marketing campaign of harassment and defamation supposed to defame Plaintiffs whereas reviving his personal fading notoriety.”
The lawsuit says the “media storm” set off by the feedback has precipitated them reputational and monetary damages that might be established at trial.
Kardashian and Jenner are represented within the case by lawyer Alex Spiro, who has turn into a go-to lawyer for outstanding figures and led the workforce that acquired expenses towards Alec Baldwin dismissed in the course of his trial.
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