{"id":439945,"date":"2026-04-17T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/439945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:03:15","slug":"kim-kardashian-kris-jenners-7-million-demand-to-ray-j-revealed-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/439945\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian &#038; Kris Jenner&#8217;s $7 Million Demand to Ray J Revealed in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Kim Kardashian &amp; Kris Jenner<br \/>\n                          Wrote $7 Million Demand Letter to Ray J<br \/>\n                          Over Sex Tape Deal<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              April 17, 2026<br \/>\n                            2:00 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260416_d4f6104085834da481dc43d362242327\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b8c6f519-78d0-4409-896b-88b8b720e60d\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d4f6104085834da481dc43d362242327_md.jpg\" alt=\"kim kardashian ray j and kris jenner getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kim-kardashian\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kim Kardashian<\/strong><\/a> and her mom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kris-jenner\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kris Jenner<\/strong><\/a>, demanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ray-j\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ray J<\/strong><\/a> pay them $7 million for breaching their secret 2023 deal over the infamous sex tape &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ obtained the legal letter, dated October 3, 2025, from Kim and Kris\u2019 legal team to Ray J.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"media-link document-block__link js-track-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dam.tmz.com\/document\/bf\/o\/2026\/04\/16\/bf694d98dbd14da190352da97bce5254.pdf\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:document-asset:document_pdf_20260416_bf694d98dbd14da190352da97bce5254\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b8c6f519-78d0-4409-896b-88b8b720e60d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>              <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/83de3fe41e874d1ba2d0510fe2193fbb_md.jpg\" alt=\"ray-j-kim-kardashian-doc-launch\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The letter claimed Ray J violated the deal, which had a non-disclosure clause provision barring the parties from talking about the sex tape or making false claims. But the docs don&#8217;t stop there &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Per the 2023 deal, Kim and Kris initially agreed to pay Ray J a total of $6 million &#8230; with payments were broken down into installments of $3 million paid within 30 days of the deal being executed, another $1 million paid by April 2024, another $1 million paid by April 2025, and the last $1 million payment due in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251001_9cbaa030d48f4ecb970487a35f4023fc\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b8c6f519-78d0-4409-896b-88b8b720e60d\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9cbaa030d48f4ecb970487a35f4023fc_md.jpg\" alt=\"ray j kim kardashian sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in May 2025, Kim and Kris\u2019 lawyers sent Ray J a letter demanding the return of the $5 million that had been paid to Ray J to date &#8230; plus an additional $1 million for Kim and $1 million for Kris for his alleged breaches of the NDA.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy clients take this matter very seriously and unless your client complies with the foregoing, the Kardashians will file legal action to enforce their rights,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2862ef15f26348b09f49a2b5432fcf64_md.jpg\" alt=\"ray-j-kim-k-tmz-live\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The legal team sent Ray J another letter in October 2025, which alleged Ray J had violated the deal again by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/09\/25\/ray-j-claims-rico-case-kim-kardashian-kris-jenner\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>talking about the sex tape<\/strong><\/a> deal on a live stream.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and Kris said that due to Ray J\u2019s breach, they were not on the hook for the last $1 million owed in 2026 and again demanded he immediately return the $5 million he&#8217;d already received under the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\n      \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Grammy nominated singer Ray J claims that the federal government is preparing to launch major RICO case against Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner and goes on to state that the RICO is &#8220;worse than Diddy&#8217;s&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JtlPRoVHqe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JtlPRoVHqe<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dom_lucre\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@dom_lucre<\/a>\n          <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As TMZ first reported, late last year, Kim and Kris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/10\/01\/kim-kardashian-kris-jenner-sue-ray-j-for-defamation\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>sued<\/strong><\/a> Ray J for defamation over his comments that they were the subject of a federal criminal racketeering investigation. Ray J <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/13\/ray-j-says-kim-kardashian-kris-jenner-in-on-sex-tape\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">countersued<\/a>, denying that his statements amounted to defamation and claiming the mother-daughter duo broke their secret 2023 agreement by talking about the sex tape on their Hulu reality show.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian &amp; Kris Jenner Wrote $7 Million Demand Letter to Ray J Over Sex Tape Deal Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,104169,4113,53719],"class_list":["post-439945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kim-k","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-kk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116420189656382989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}