Friday, February 09, 2007

Hilton Pal, Kim Kardashian, Ready To Sue Over Sex Tape

Paris Hilton pal and California socialite Kim Kardashian has said that she may sue to halt the release of a sex tape of her and rapper-actor Ray J from when they were an item.

As reported previously by The Gossip Girls, Vivid Entertainment said it paid $1 million to an undisclosed third party for the tape made three years ago of Kardashian, daughter of the late O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian, and Ray J.

Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch said the company is “comfortable” that it has the right to distribute the video.

However, Kardashian said, “We’re just going to get to the bottom of this and do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

Kardashian, a stylist and fashion designer, co-owns the Calabasas, Calif., boutique Dash with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.

She said that the tape should not have been up for sale and also noted that she doesn’t believe that her ex-boyfriend was responsible.

“Have there been tapes? Maybe, yes,” she said recently on E!’s Daily Ten. “But are they for sale? No. Not for sale. That’s our business.”

“I don’t feel like I really did anything wrong,” Kardashian continued. “I was in a relationship, very much in love…It’s humiliating; it’s embarrassing. It’s something I feel very betrayed by but I’m not pointing any fingers.”

Rumors that she was an active participant in trying to sell one of her racy home movies, Kardashian said in a written statement to the New York Daily News: “I’m not poor; I’m not desperate. I would never attempt to sell a tape. It would humiliate me and ruin my family. I have two successful businesses, and I don’t need the money.”

Kardashian is set to appear in hip-hop producer Christopher Stokes’ multimillion-dollar ad campaign for his new street-wear line, Christopher Brian Apparel—some of which features Kardashian, who will also design some pieces for Stokes, in “topless-yet-tasteful (i.e. no bare breasts) situations,” claimed E! News.