Ray J has doubled down on his claims that he was behind the infamous sex tape leak after Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner were sued for defamation.
“Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner’s lawsuit is not about defamation; it’s about fame, power, and punishment,” Ray J argued in court documents obtained by Page Six on Thursday.
TMZ was first to report the news.
“[Jenner and Kardashian]have spent 20 years promoting a false story that the sex tape Kardashian filmed with[Ray J]was leaked against her will,” attorney Howard King argued in a filing.
Ray J, 44, claimed in his filing that Kardashian, 45, made a consensual sex tape in 2003. Kardashian also claims that in 2006, she discussed releasing the tape with a Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum and that Kardashian told her that Kris should be in charge of releasing it.
The “One Wish” artist, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr., claimed he is “furious” that the Skims founder and his mother “no longer want to go along with their grand narrative.”
In the documents, Ray J said Jenner, Kardashian and shapewear mogul Kanye West’s ex-husband falsely accused Kim of sexually assaulting her while she was sleeping on Hulu’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians. They also accused him of publishing revenge porn and blackmail.
When he fought back through his lawyer, Kardashian and Jenner and their production company reportedly agreed to a settlement in which the SKYY Partners founder would pay Kardashian $6 million. They also agreed not to “make any further mention or publicly mention” the sex tape on their reality show.
However, he claims that Kardashian, Jenner, Ye, and Kendall Jenner violated the agreement when they discussed the sex tape on their show “nearly immediately after the agreement was signed.”
“We will not allow the Kardashians and Jenners to weaponize the justice system, evade their contractual obligations, and sacrifice it on the altar of honor,” Ray J’s attorneys argued in the filing.
Kardashian and Jenner’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, responded to the latest legal hurdle in a statement to Page Six on Thursday.
“This incoherent, rambling diversion is not going to intimidate anyone after losing a court case and finding themselves lost. Ray J will also lose this frivolous lawsuit,” Spiro said in an email.
As Page Six reported last month, Kardashian and Jenner sued Ray J for defamation after he claimed he was cooperating with federal authorities to file RICO lawsuits against both women.
Kardashian and her mother, 70, argued in court documents that “no such federal investigation exists.”
“No law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings or investigation related to the extortion charges alleged against Ms. Kardashian or Ms. Jenner, and there is no credible evidence to support these incendiary claims,” their complaint states.
In a statement to Page Six, Spiro added that Jenner and Kardashian “have never previously filed a defamation lawsuit or been bothered by the noise, but these false and serious allegations left them with no choice.”
