Ray J pushed again towards Kim Kardashian in courtroom as their dispute over previous scandals and alleged agreements pulled their historical past again into headlines.
The Ray J–Kim Kardashian authorized battle resurfaced Friday after newly reported paperwork steered a $6 million settlement tied to their lengthy working dispute over a 2003 intercourse tape and public statements about it.
The reported 9 web page confidential settlement settlement, first printed by TMZ, allegedly exhibits signatures from Ray J, born William Ray Norwood Jr., Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Sonja Norwood and Jenner’s manufacturing firm. The doc reportedly outlines phrases requiring all sides to keep away from public assaults towards one another whereas limiting authorized publicity involving Disney and Hulu.
The event provides one other twist to a authorized battle that stretches again practically twenty years however has grown extra heated in recent times as each side traded lawsuits and public accusations.
In keeping with stories in regards to the alleged settlement, all events had been anticipated to keep away from statements that might harm reputations or enterprise pursuits. The phrases additionally reportedly required Ray J to launch Disney and Hulu from legal responsibility linked to claims tied to the truth sequence The Kardashians.
The settlement surfaced as a part of a broader authorized conflict that features a defamation lawsuit Kardashian and Jenner filed towards Ray J in October 2025. That case adopted feedback Ray J made suggesting doable prison conduct.
“For those who advised me the Kardashians was being charged for racketeering, I’d imagine it,” he mentioned throughout a Might 2025 interview.
Ray J later intensified his place throughout a September 2025 Twitch stream.
“The federal RICO I’m about to drop on Kris and Kim is ‘bout to be loopy,” he mentioned. “The feds is coming, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
Ray J responded legally one month after the defamation submitting along with his personal countersuit. He alleged Kardashian violated an earlier understanding that neither would publicly revisit the intercourse tape controversy. His submitting additionally claimed Kardashian created what he described as a “contemporary faux Intercourse Tape ‘controversy’” linked to promotion surrounding The Kardashians in 2021.
Ray J additional claimed mediation discussions led to the reported $6 million settlement and a dedication by all concerned to keep away from additional public dialogue of the tape. Nevertheless he alleged the deal was damaged when season three episodes of the Hulu sequence included references to the state of affairs.
In keeping with his authorized response, Kardashian and Jenner maintained these episodes fell exterior the settlement as a result of they had been filmed earlier than the settlement was finalized.
Kardashian forcefully denied Ray J’s broader claims in a March 2026 courtroom declaration.
“His declare that I had a plan with my mom and others to launch a intercourse tape, defraud the general public, and file a ‘faux’ lawsuit towards the p### firm that launched it to ‘create buzz’ is a lie,” she acknowledged.
Jenner additionally rejected the accusations in robust phrases.
“As a mom, the notion that I orchestrated or produced intercourse tapes involving my daughter, or was in any method concerned within the creation or distribution of any intercourse tapes, is just not solely solely unfaithful, however deeply offensive and dangerous and has haunted me for many years,” Jenner mentioned.
The authorized battle stays lively with competing claims nonetheless working by the courtroom system as each side proceed to defend their reputations and their model of occasions tied to at least one of popular culture’s most talked about controversies.
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