{"id":5947,"date":"2019-01-10T22:56:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:28:45","slug":"how-did-the-kim-kardashian-sex-tape-get-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/how-did-the-kim-kardashian-sex-tape-get-leaked","title":{"rendered":"How did the Kim Kardashian sex tape get leaked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next March marks 11 years since Vivid Entertainment released Kim Kardashian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/view_video.php?viewkey=2006034279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sextape<\/a> with her one time boyfriend Ray J. You know it was quite something when we are still talking about it more than a decade later. For the context, Kim Kardashian has since been married to rapper Kanye West, a marriage that has produced three children: daughters North &#8220;Nori&#8221; West and Chicago West as well as a son Saint West.<!--more--> But whether she likes it or not, that sextape will continue to be part of her story and is in fact the most watched x-rated video of all time having been viewed over 150 million times.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has maintained all along that she or any member of her family didn\u2019t have anything to do with how it was leaked, but what is the real truth behind the manner in which the sextape found its way into the public domain? Lets take a look.<\/p>\n<h2>How it came to be<\/h2>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kim-k.webp 906w, https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kim-k-related.webp 822w\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8503\" src=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kim-k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"474\" title=\"\"><\/picture><\/p>\n<p>It all happened in 2002. Kim Kardashian was then a little known heir of late lawyer Robert Kardashian and the personal stylist for musician Brandy Norwood. She also happened to be in a romantic relationship with Brandy\u2019s younger brother Willie \u201cRay J\u201d Norwood, also a singer.<\/p>\n<p>October 2002 found the two lovers on a trip to luxury Esperanza resort in Cabo, Mexico where they were to celebrate Kim\u2019s 23<sup>rd<\/sup> birthday. In their luggage was a handheld camcorder which they used to record themselves following around and even having sex. They actually filmed themselves in bed on several occasions. Unbeknown to them, that was about to completely change their lives.<\/p>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kim-k2.webp 906w, https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kim-k2-related.webp 822w\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8504\" src=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kim-k2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"474\" title=\"\"><\/picture><\/p>\n<p>The sextape was released to the public in March 2007 in form of a 41 minute video called Kim Kardashian, Superstar released by porn company Vivid Entertainment. Kim went to court to prevent its release, but she eventually settled for an out of court agreement and the video was subsequently made public. But how did Vivid Entertainment get their hands on the sextape in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone just called the office one day and said, \u2018We have some footage of a celebrity,\u201d said <strong>Steven Hirsch<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> the founder and co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment. According to Hirsch, the company arranged for a meeting with the caller and to their surprise, it wasn\u2019t just a single tape. It was a big rolling suitcase that left Hirsch impressed. The way the footage was very much compactly and together gave the impression of someone who was well prepared and who wanted to be in full control of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they just wanted to be in control the whole time,\u201d said Hirsch. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that they were representing the people in the video. It definitely wasn\u2019t. Because Kim was not involved in it. It was that these people had the footage and were looking to sell it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Dickson, a former editor at <em>In Touch Weekly<\/em> said that when he called Kim to confirm the sextape rumors, the phone was picked by her friend Paris Hilton as Kim cried in the background. He added: \u201cKim denied it and denied it and she was denying and crying at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kimkk234.webp 780w, https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kimkk234-related.webp 380w\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5951\" src=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kimkk234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"906\" title=\"\"><\/picture><\/p>\n<p>This points to someone who didn\u2019t want the sextape to leak. Hirsch says that once they struck a deal with the people who had the footage, they announced that they had the footage and that\u2019s when they fell into legal issues with Kim and her team. However, naysayers argue that Vivid would not have gone public about their possession of the footage unless they knew Kim would not object as long as they settled on a price.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, both Kim and Ray had to sign their rights to the company. Not that it was easy. According to Hirsch, \u201cIt was a very difficult time, and ultimately we were able to come to an agreement. It was a very difficult deal to get done. Probably [the hardest deal we\u2019ve done]. [Kim] did <em>not<\/em> want it to happen.\u201d The sextape fetched her a cool $5m although her attorney insists that figure is inflated. However, Vidid Entertainment seems to have reaped big. \u201cI can only say that it\u2019s the most popular tape we\u2019ve ever done,\u201d beams Hirsch. \u201cRevenue-wise it has generated more income than any other tape that we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kimkk2345.webp 882w, https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/webp\/content\/2019\/01\/kimkk2345-related.webp 430w\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5952\" src=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kimkk2345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"906\" title=\"\"><\/picture><\/p>\n<p>Even then, Kim still insists that she was high of hard pills and points to her shaking jaw as evidence that she wasn\u2019t sober. One of ray J\u2019s friends told TMZ that Kim smoked marijuana &#8220;from a pipe shaped like a penis&#8221; around the time the video was made which seems to validate her point. Ray was however offended by Kim\u2019s claims that she was in an altered state of mind when she made the tape, saying that she was in agreement all along.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has in the past been accused of colluding with her mother Kris Jenner to release the sextape, but Hirsch seems to put such rumors to rest: A lot of nonsense has been reported over the years \u2026 [The persistent rumors about Kris Jenner, Kardashian\u2019s mother, being involved in selling the tape are] such nonsense. I don\u2019t know who started that. [People don\u2019t want] the truth to get in the way of a good story \u2026 I had no contact with [Kris].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I guess we\u2019ll never know which party is the telling the truth, shall we? Meanwhile, you can watch Kim\u2019s sextape and other exclusive celebrity sextapes <a href=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/720\/vividceleb\">here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next March marks 11 years since Vivid Entertainment released Kim Kardashian\u2019s sextape with her one time boyfriend Ray J. You know it was quite something when we are still talking about it more than a decade later. For the context, Kim Kardashian has since been married to rapper Kanye West, a marriage that has produced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/how-did-the-kim-kardashian-sex-tape-get-leaked\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How did the Kim Kardashian sex tape get leaked?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[62,800,538],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-porn-news","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-leaked","tag-sextape"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18679,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/18679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theporndude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}