Kim Kardashian & Kris Jenner Sue Ray J Over RICO Investigation Claims: ‘Campaign of Harassment’

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner person deed Ray J with a defamation suit for falsely stating successful a caller livestream that national authorities are investigating the parent and girl brace for transgression racketeering.

The lawsuit, submitted to Los Angeles tribunal connected Wednesday (Oct. 1) by powerhouse lawyer Alex Spiro, claims Ray J’s caller falsehoods are conscionable “the latest salvo successful a deliberate and malicious run of harassment and defamation intended to defame plaintiffs portion reviving his ain fading notoriety.”

The R&B vocalist (William Ray Norwood Jr.), who dated Kardashian successful the aboriginal 2000s, said during a Sept. 24 societal media livestream that authorities were investigating Kardashian and Jenner for racketeering. Ray J stated, “The feds is coming” and “It’s worse than Diddy,” referencing the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

“Ray J’s nationalist statements are blatantly false,” reads the lawsuit. “No specified national probe exists; nary instrumentality enforcement bureau has initiated immoderate transgression proceedings oregon investigations related to racketeering charges against Ms. Kardashian oregon Ms. Jenner; and nary credible grounds whatsoever supports these inflammatory allegations.”

Kardashian and Jenner accidental Ray J has been publically attacking their household for much than 2 decades arsenic he’s “repeatedly sought to connect himself to the plaintiffs’ names and exploit their prominence for idiosyncratic gain.” They allege that Ray J is motivated to prevarication truthful helium tin enactment relevant, arguing that he’s “utterly forgotten arsenic a fig without Kardashians.”

The suit claims that Ray J’s allegedly mendacious statements astir the RICO probe — his “latest and astir malicious defamatory conduct” — person importantly harmed Kardashian and Jenner’s businesses and reputations. The ailment cites Kardashian’s palmy shapewear marque SKIMS, valued astatine $4 billion, and Jenner’s estimation arsenic the matriarch down “one of the astir palmy household concern empires successful amusement history.”

“Due to Ray J’s defamatory statements, plaintiffs person been astatine the halfway of a media tempest speculating arsenic to their alleged amerciable behavior,” the suit reads. “As a nonstop consequence, plaintiffs person suffered reputational harm that has affected and volition proceed to impact their nonrecreational relationships.”

The ailment seeks unspecified monetary damages from Ray J, stating that the nonstop magnitude of fiscal harm volition beryllium proven astatine trial.

A rep for Ray J did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark connected Wednesday (Oct. 1).