{"id":98661,"date":"2025-10-02T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:18:11","slug":"kim-kardashian-and-kris-jenner-sue-ray-j-for-defamation-over-racketeering-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98661\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner sue Ray J for defamation over racketeering claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Kardashian<\/a> and Kris Jenner<\/a> are suing Ray J<\/a> for defamation<\/a> after he claimed that racketeering charges against the famous family \u201cwould be appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit<\/a>, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by Rolling Stone<\/a>, stems from two sets of comments by Ray J, who dated Kim Kardashian more than two decades ago and appeared in the infamous sex tape<\/a>, that accuse the mother-daughter duo of being involved in a racketeering case.<\/p>\n

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations<\/a> Act, or RICO, is a federal law typically used to prosecute mobs and criminal enterprises. Kardashian and Jenner say his allegations are baseless.<\/p>\n

The singer, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr., appeared in a documentary \u2014 \u201cTMZ Presents: United States v. Sean Combs\u201d \u2014 about Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a>, who was charged last year with racketeering conspiracy, but has since been acquitted of that count.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacketeering charges against the Kardashians would be appropriate,\u201d the singer said in the documentary. \u201cIf you told me that the Kardashians were being charged for racketeering, I might believe it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"Kris<\/p>\n

Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian sue Ray J for defamation over his \u2018blatantly false\u2019 claims that they are being targeted in a racketeering case (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The suit also points to the R&B artist\u2019s claims during a livestream with Chrisean Rock on September 24.<\/p>\n

“The federal RICO I’m about to drop on Kris and Kim is about to be crazy,” Ray J said in the now-viral clip. “I’m talking about, I’m on the news every day. I\u2019m gonna say a lot of s***. Anybody that is cool with Kim, they need to tell her now: The feds is coming. There’s nothing I can do about it. It’s worse than Diddy.”<\/p>\n

He even retweeted the clip, writing<\/a> on X: \u201cstay tuned\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Kardashian and Jenner have accused him of defamation, emphasizing that such an investigation does not exist.<\/p>\n

\"Ray<\/p>\n

Ray J, who dated Kim Kardashian more than 20 years ago, made \u2018calculated falsehoods\u2019 about the famous family, the lawsuit alleges (Getty Images for BET)<\/p>\n

\u201cNo such federal investigation exists, no law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings or investigations related to racketeering charged against Ms. Kardashian or Ms. Jenner and no credible evidence whatsoever supports these inflammatory allegations,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnable to accept the end of his fleeting relationship with Ms. Kardashian over 20 years ago, Ray J has repeatedly sought to attach himself to Plaintiffs\u2019 names and exploit their prominence for personal gain,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n

Ray J \u201cprovided no evidence whatsoever for these explosive accusations,\u201d the filing says, branding the claims as \u201cblatantly false\u201d and \u201ccalculated falsehoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Spiro, an attorney for the women, told Page Six in a statement: \u201cKris Jenner and Kim Kardashian have never brought a defamation claim before, nor have they been distracted by noise, but this false and serious allegation left no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women are seeking actual and punitive damages.<\/p>\n

Ray J acknowledged the lawsuit in an Instagram story on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

“I’m not about to be silenced. I just got off the phone with Alex Spiro…Crazy questions he was asking me,” he said. “Y’all should be super scared because I’m not backing down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner are suing Ray J for defamation after he claimed that racketeering charges against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,4113,12216,62988,62987,62986,62985],"class_list":{"0":"post-98661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kim-kardashian","14":"tag-kris-jenner","15":"tag-los-angeles-county-superior-court","16":"tag-racketeering-case","17":"tag-racketeering-charges","18":"tag-ray-j"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98661","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=98661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}