Kim Kardashian, the billionaire lodestar of the Kardashian-Jenner universe, sat in a witness box in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday and denied ever trying to tank Blac Chyna’s TV career.
The aspiring lawyer and former wife of Kanye West read through a series of text messages she sent to a Keeping Up With the Kardashians producer on March 16, 2017, and was adamant she wasn’t issuing an ultimatum that she’d stop filming her own show if a second season of her brother’s spin-off with his former fiancée, Blac Chyna, went forward.
Kardashian, 41, said the seemingly most incriminating text shown to jurors was riddled with errors because she had dictated it to her phone before hitting send.
“Anytime I write something long, it’s voice-dictated,” she testified. It was the sixth day of the defamation trial involving claims she conspired with her mom Kris Jenner and sisters Kylie Jenner and Khloé Kardashian to kill Season Two of Rob & Chyna using a combination of the family’s influence over the E! Network and false claims that Chyna had physically abused Rob during a blowout fight on Dec. 15, 2016, as the couple’s newborn baby, Dream, was in the same home.
Blac Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, read aloud from the March 2017 text message from Kim to the producers: “OK, I don’t know what to do at this point but the level of disrespect is just unreal. Chyna told everyone that she’s on her show and she went to go get Dream’s ears pierced with Rob on camera today. We specifically all had...
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