A judge has rejected a request by Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner to keep parts of their 2023 settlement agreement with Ray J private, according to a court document filed on March 30 and obtained by Rolling Stone.
The reality TV stars had filed a motion earlier this month arguing that publicly disclosing portions of the agreement would cause substantial harm to their privacy and undermine public policy favoring settlement agreements.
In his ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven A. Ellis said Kardashian and Jenner failed to provide evidence that making the settlement terms public would harm them. He described their claims as “too vague, speculative, amorphous, and unsupported” to justify sealing the documents.
Judge Ellis denied their request to seal the settlement, although he allowed a bank account number to be partially redacted.
Representatives for Kardashian, Jenner, and Ray J did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Ray J, whose legal name is William Ray Norwood Jr., dated Kardashian in the early 2000s. The pair appeared in a sex tape recorded in 2003 and released in 2007 by Vivid Entertainment shortly before the premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians on E! in 2007. Vivid Entertainment has long maintained it obtained the video legally from a third party.
In October 2025, Kardashian and Jenner sued Norwood for defamation, accusing him of fabricating claims that they should be investigated under federal racketeering laws. The following month, Norwood countersued, alleging they breached a $6 million settlement over the sex tape by discussing it again on their Hulu series The Kardashians.
Most recently, Kardashian denied Norwood’s claims that she and her mother conspired to release the tape, calling the allegations false in a sworn declaration filed in March. She said her family was not involved in any criminal enterprise or racketeering activity, as alleged in the lawsuit.
Culled from Yahoo News
