A recent court ruling indicates that Kim Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner, will not be permitted to keep certain details of their 2023 settlement agreement with Ray J confidential. This decision was documented in a filing made on March 30, which was subsequently obtained by Rolling Stone.
Earlier in the month, the reality television figures submitted a motion asserting that making portions of their agreement public could lead to significant harm to their privacy and diminish the overarching public interest in favor of upholding settlement agreements.
However, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven A. Ellis determined that Kardashian and Jenner failed to provide sufficient evidence to substantiate their claims that the public disclosure of the settlement terms would be detrimental. He characterized their assertions as "too vague, speculative, amorphous, and unsupported to support the requested sealing order."
Consequently, Judge Ellis denied the motions to seal, with the singular exception of redacting certain portions of a bank account number.
At the time of this ruling, representatives for Kardashian, Jenner, and Ray J had not responded to Rolling Stone’s requests for comments.
Ray J, whose legal name is William Ray Norwood Jr., had a relationship with Kardashian in the early 2000s, during which a sex tape was recorded in 2003 and subsequently released by Vivid Entertainment in 2007. The release coincided with the debut of Keeping Up With the Kardashians on E! in the same year. Vivid Entertainment has consistently maintained that it obtained the video legally from a third party.
In October 2025, Kardashian and Jenner initiated a defamation lawsuit against Norwood, claiming he made fabricated statements suggesting that they should be subjects of a federal racketeering investigation in an effort to harass and publicly disparage them while also attempting to revive his own dwindling fame.
In November, Norwood countersued both Kardashian and Jenner, alleging they violated a $6 million settlement agreement related to the sex tape by discussing it again in their Hulu series, The Kardashians, according to People.
Most recently, Kardashian responded to Norwood's assertions that she and her mother conspired to release her notorious sex tape. In a sworn declaration submitted in March, Kardashian stated, “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. 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."
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