A bid by Kim Kardashian and her mom, Kris Jenner, to seal parts of a 2023 settlement settlement with Ray J has been denied, in accordance to a court docket doc filed on March 30 and obtained by Rolling Stone.
The actuality TV stars had filed a movement earlier this month arguing that publicly disclosing parts of the deal “would cause substantial harm to the Kardashians’ privacy interests and undermine the strong public policy interest in favor of settlement agreement.”
In his ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven A. Ellis dominated that Kardashian and Jenner had failed to current any proof that the deal and its phrases being made public would trigger them hurt, stating that their claims are “too vague, speculative, amorphous, and unsupported to support the requested sealing order.”
Ellis rejected Kardashian and Jenner’s motions to seal, aside from a checking account quantity being partially redacted.
Representatives for Kardashian, Jenner, and Ray J didn’t instantly reply Rolling Stone‘s requests for remark Tuesday.
Ray J, whose authorized identify is William Ray Norwood Jr., and Kardashian dated within the early 2000s and appeared collectively in a intercourse tape recorded in 2003 and launched in 2007 by Vivid Entertainment. The tape’s launch got here shortly earlier than the premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians on E! in 2007. Vivid Entertainment has lengthy stated it obtained the video legally from a 3rd occasion.
In October 2025, Kardashian and Jenner sued Norwood for defamation, accusing him of getting “fabricated” claims that the ladies needs to be the topics of a federal racketeering investigation as a result of he sought to harass and disparage the pair whereas concurrently “reviving his own fading notoriety.”
The following month, in accordance to People, Norwood countersued the mom and daughter, alleging they breached a $6 million settlement over his and Kardashian’s intercourse tape by discussing the tape once more on their Hulu sequence The Kardashians.
Most just lately, Kardashian addressed Norwood’s declare that she and her mom conspired to launch her notorious intercourse tape. “His claim that I had a plan with my mother and others to release a sex tape, defraud the public, and file a ‘fake’ lawsuit against the porn company that released it to ‘create buzz’ is a lie,” Kardashian wrote in a sworn declaration filed in March. “My family and I are not part of a criminal enterprise; we have not conducted racketeering activity, nor have we profited from racketeering activities as the defendant claims.”
