Kim Kardashian and her mom Kris Jenner are suing Ray J for defamation.
In a brand new 13-page lawsuit filed Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, the duo declare that the R&B singer who dated Kim greater than 20 years in the past – and appeared in a infamous intercourse tape with the shapewear mogul – “fabricated” claims that the ladies are the topics of a federal racketeering investigation as a result of he sought to harass and disparage the pair whereas concurrently “reviving his personal fading notoriety.”
“Unable to just accept the tip of his fleeting relationship with Ms. Kardashian over 20 years in the past, Ray J has repeatedly sought to connect himself to plaintiffs’ names and exploit their prominence for private achieve,” the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket reads. “Ray J’s defamatory statements about plaintiffs are a part of a broader marketing campaign of harassment designed to generate publicity for his flailing profession and fulfill his acknowledged animosity towards the Kardashian household.”
Kardashian and Jenner, represented by high-powered legal professionals Alex Spiro and Michael Lifrak, declare within the criticism that Ray J’s alleged sample of “antagonistic conduct” traces again to his 2013 track,“I Hit It First.” The track “was broadly understood as a disparaging reference to Ms. Kardashian,” the lawsuit says.
The ladies say Ray J, born William Ray Norwood Jr., began his newest “marketing campaign” of alleged defamation when he said in a Could 30, 2025, interview with TMZ that the mother and daughter could be acceptable targets for federal legal racketeering fees. “For those who informed me that the Kardashians was being charged for racketeering, I would imagine it,” Norwood mentioned within the Fox/Tubi particular TMZ Presents: United States v. Sean Combs, the lawsuit reads. (Neither Norwood nor his supervisor instantly replied to requests for remark.)
On Sept. 24, 2025, Norwood “escalated his assaults” throughout a follow-up livestream, declaring, “The federal RICO I’m about to drop on Kris and Kim is about to be loopy.” He additionally purportedly mentioned, “The feds is coming, there’s nothing I can do about it,” and, “It’s worse than Diddy. It’s worse than Diddy.”
“Ray J supplied no proof by any means for these explosive accusations,” the brand new lawsuit reads. “Ray J’s public statements are blatantly false. No such federal investigation exists; no regulation enforcement company has initiated any legal proceedings or investigations associated to racketeering fees towards Ms. Kardashian or Ms. Jenner; and no credible proof by any means helps these inflammatory allegations.” Along with defamation, the submitting additionally features a second reason behind motion for “false mild publicity.”
“Ray J’s defamatory statements weren’t careless exaggerations however calculated falsehoods – a part of a decades-long effort to commerce on plaintiffs’ reputations, undermine their companies, and inflict emotional and reputational hurt,” the criticism reads. “Ray J’s conduct represents an egregious abuse of social media and public platforms to weaponize lies about nonexistent legal investigations whereas totally conscious that such allegations, even when baseless, carry the ability to break plaintiffs’ livelihoods and hard-earned reputations.”
The lawsuit is searching for precise and punitive damages to be decided at a jury trial.
