Rapper Ray J confirmed Kim Kardashian and Mrs. Kris Jenner collaborated with him to release the famous 2007 sex tape, paving the way for them to enter showbiz, absolutely no leaks.
“I’ve never leaked a sex tape in my life. It’s never leaked. It’s an agreement and partnership between Kris Jenner and Kim and me. We’ve been partners since the very beginning. this incident,” Ray J said in an interview with Dailymail on May 4.
Rapper Ray J. Photo: Dailymail
The 41-year-old rap star admitted he encouraged Kim to release sex tapes after watching his close friend Paris Hilton’s career flourish thanks to a leaked ‘hot’ video. Paris Hilton was once released by her ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon in 2004.
Ray J – who dated Kim from 2003 to 2006 – alleges Kim asked her mother to give a tape of their bed scene to the publishing company Vivid Entertainment. He and Kim had signed a contract to sell three tapes, but only one of their sex scenes during their vacation in Mexico was released.
“I’ve been sitting in the dark for over 14 years, letting the Kardashian family use and abuse my name make billions of dollars over a decade and a half when it comes to topics I’ve never really opened my mouth to,” Ray said. J said.
Ray J and Kim Kardashian. Photo: FilmMagic
Ray J claimed he never owned the sex tapes and called the rumor he leaked them “the biggest lie in the history of the entertainment industry”. “I never had one in the house,” Ray said. “She’s the one who keeps them. She has all the tapes in a Nike shoebox under the bed.”
Last year, a former assistant of Ray J caused a stir when it confirmed that there was a second sex tape of Kim and Ray J. The 41-year-old billionaire businesswoman denied it, but last October, her ex-husband. She is rapper Kanye West who personally went to see Ray J to get a laptop that may still contain sensitive videos of Kim. In an episode of The Kardashian , Kim once burst into tears when she received an old laptop from Kanye.
Ray J said he was delighted to hand over the computer to Kanye West for free after a four-hour conversation at LAX airport in Los Angeles. The rapper said that Kanye went through everything on the laptop, including a short video and conversations he had with Kim after they broke up in 2006.
Kim cried when she received the laptop. Photo: Hulu
As for the reason for making this story public, Ray J explained that it was heartbreaking and disrespectful to watch “an entire family make an empire out of the lies they made”. Ray J is upset because Kim once said on The Kardashian show that she was afraid he might leak another sex tape of theirs. Ray J said: “For the rest of my life, I will live peacefully in the truth, not the lie made up by Kris Jenner and Kim. I will not let them do this to me anymore.”
Representatives for Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have not yet responded to the revelations of Ray J.
Back in 2007, porn studio Vivid Entertainment acquired Kim and Ray J’s sex tapes, claiming they bought it from a “third party” for a million dollars. Before the film was released, Kim Kardashian filed a lawsuit against Vivid Entertainment for invasion of privacy as well as profit and ownership of the tape. However, the two sides later settled the case, Kim agreed to withdraw the lawsuit and receive $ 5 million, allowing this company to release sex films. Kim’s sex films are estimated to have grossed $100 million.
Kim and Ray J filmed a series of ‘hot’ videos in 2002.
The sex tape scandal made Kim Kardashian a hot name right now. On the rise to fame, Kim and the Kardashian family made the reality TV series Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The first episode of the show aired in October 2007, half a year after Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with her ex-boyfriend was widely released, attracting public attention.
In an interview in June 2021 on the occasion of the end of this hit TV show, Kim frankly admitted that sex tapes helped her family’s TV show succeed. MC Andy Cohen asked Kim, “Do you feel that the show would not have been able to achieve its initial great success without the buzz surrounding the sex tape?” Kim replied with an admission: “Looking back, maybe not.”
