{"id":2062724,"date":"2025-10-01T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2062724"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:05:40","slug":"kim-kardashian-and-kris-jenner-sue-ray-j-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kim-kardashian-and-kris-jenner-sue-ray-j-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner Sue Ray J for Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kim-kardashian\/\"><strong>Kim Kardashian<\/strong><\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kris-jenner\/\"><strong>Kris Jenner<\/strong><\/a> are taking <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/ray-j\/\"><strong>Ray J<\/strong><\/a> to court.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents obtained by <em>Us Weekly<\/em>, Kardashian\u2019s attorney <strong>Alex Spiro<\/strong> filed a defamation lawsuit against Ray J (real name William Ray Norwood Jr.) in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 1. Kardashian, 44, and Jenner, 69, claimed in the docs that Ray J\u2019s remarks against their family have created \u201csubstantial and ongoing harm to their personal and professional reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The docs also alleged that Ray J, who previously dated Kardashian, is \u201cunable to accept the end of his fleeting relationship with Ms. Kardashian over 20 years ago.\u201d Kardashian and Jenner claimed that Ray J, 44, has repeatedly exploited their infamous relationship over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian and Jenner are seeking compensatory and punitive damages. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/10\/01\/kim-kardashian-kris-jenner-sue-ray-j-for-defamation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a> was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kanye-west-mentions-kim-kardashian-and-ray-j-in-latest-online-rant-page\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kanye-west-mentions-kim-kardashian-and-ray-j-in-latest-online-rant-page\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Kanye West References Kim Kardashian, Ray J&#8217;s Sex Tape in New Rant<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKanye West\u2018s latest series of controversial tweets made reference to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian\u2019s infamous 2007 sex tape with Ray J. \u201cTold Ray J we need to hit Kim from both sides for that Superstar part two,\u201d West, 47, wrote in a since-deleted tweet on Wednesday, April 9, per the Daily Mail. Kardashian and Ray [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The lawsuit comes nearly one week after Ray J went viral for comments he made during a September live stream <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dom_lucre\/status\/1970970971873108444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via X<\/a>. The musician claimed that Kardashian and Jenner were involved in a federal criminal racketeering investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal RICO I\u2019m about to drop on Kris and Kim is about to be crazy,\u201d Ray J claimed in the clip. \u201cI\u2019m talking about, I\u2019m on the news every day. I\u2019m gonna say a lot of s***. Anybody that is cool with Kim, they need to tell her now, the feds is coming. There\u2019s nothing I can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray J also claimed that Kardashian and Jenner\u2019s alleged legal trouble was going to be \u201cworse\u201d than <strong>Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/strong>\u2019 recent legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKris Jenner and Kim Kardashian have never brought a defamation claim before nor have they been distracted by noise \u2013 but this false and serious allegation left no choice,\u201d Spiro said in a statement to <em>Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us<\/em> has reached out to Ray J, Kardashian and Jenner for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Ray J has made claims about Kardashian being allegedly involved in racketeering. Back in May, Ray J appeared in a Tubi documentary about Diddy\u2019s case and spoke about Kardashian and her family. (Ray J previously defended Diddy amid his legal trouble.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you told me that the Kardashians were being charged for racketeering, I might believe it,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Ray J has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ray-js-ups-and-downs-through-the-years\/\">a lot of history<\/a> with the Kardashian family. The rapper and the Skims founder started dating in 2003. They called it quits three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loved each other. Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It\u2019s just the moral standards and values were off. I was loving and lying,\u201d Ray J recalled of his relationship with Kardashian during a 2017 episode of <em>Celebrity Big Brother U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following their breakup, Ray J and Kardashian made headlines when their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/caitlyn-jenner-has-no-idea-whether-kris-leaked-kims-sex-tape\/\">infamous sex tape<\/a> was released in 2007, the same year Kardashian\u2019s show <em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/em> premiered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ray-j-addresses-diddys-unfortunate-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ray-J-Addresses-Diddys-Unfortunate-Trafficking-Racketeering-Arrest-01-2024.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Ray J Says He's 'Never Seen the Stuff That's Being Said' About Diddy After Trafficking Arrest\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ray-J-Addresses-Diddys-Unfortunate-Trafficking-Racketeering-Arrest-01-2024.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ray-j-addresses-diddys-unfortunate-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Ray J Addresses Diddy&#8217;s &#8216;Unfortunate&#8217; Trafficking, Racketeering Arrest<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRapper Ray J has broken his silence after longtime pal Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs was arrested for sex trafficking and racketeering. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been around him, at least in my era, and have looked up to him,\u201d Ray J, 43, said during the Friday, September 20, episode of NewsNation\u2019s Cuomo. \u201cAnd this situation is super unfortunate, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More than a decade after the sex tape drama, rumors swirled that there was more unreleased footage of Kardashian and Ray J. Kardashian claimed that her now estranged husband, <strong>Kanye West<\/strong>, delivered the entire tape to her after meeting with Ray J.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo Kanye flew home last night, and he came back this morning. I want to show you guys what he got me. He got me all of the sex tape back,\u201d she said during a 2022 episode of <em>The Kardashians<\/em>. \u201cHe flew home, and he got the computer it was on and the hard drive. He met with Ray J at the airport, and he got it all back for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray J subsequently denied Kardashian\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve sat in the shadows for over 14 years allowing the Kardashians to use my name, to abuse my name, make billions of dollars over a decade and a half talking about a topic I\u2019ve never really spoken about,\u201d he said to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> in May 2022. \u201cI have never leaked a sex tape in my life. It has never been a leak.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner are taking Ray J to court. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Kardashian\u2019s attorney Alex Spiro filed a defamation lawsuit against Ray J (real name William Ray Norwood Jr.) in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 1. Kardashian, 44, and Jenner, 69, claimed in the docs that Ray J\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003,28786,32881],"class_list":["post-2062724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-kardashians","tag-the-kardashians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kim-Kardashian-and-Kris-Jenner-Sue-Ray-J-for-Defamation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062726,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062724\/revisions\/2062726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}