Cathy Griffin - Dirty Sexy Money

Copyright 2021 by Cathy Griffin, Dylan Howard

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CONTENTS

Theres a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless youre willing to work really, really hard and work for what you want, its never going to happen.

Kris Jenner

AUTHORS NOTE

Dirty Sexy Money: The Unauthorized Biography of Kris Jenner is the definitive account of how a Beverly Hills socialite with little formal education built herself a global empire.

This tell-all tome unravels the familys meteoric rise to fame and the dark secrets theyve struggled to hide... until now. Together, we have delved behind the headlines and social media hype to tell the true story of Kriss liferather than the rosy picture she likes to paint.

Dirty Sexy Money is an unflinching look at Kriss triumphs and losses, her crises and celebrations, her famous friendships and family conflicts. It examines in unprecedented detail Kriss troubled two decades with Bruce Jenner and the end of their marriage as Bruce transitioned to Caitlyn; it exposes the truth about her current affair with a much younger man... and it reveals what she really thinks of her daughters very public marriage to Kanye West.

Inside are a wealth of previously untold stories, including intimate details of how Kims sex tape jump-started her career and the true story of how Kris sold her long-running television reality seriesas well as shocking, never-before-heard revelations about her friendships with O. J. Simpson and his murdered wife Nicole.

To gain access to the most private aspects of Kriss life, we conducted extensive interviews with multiple first-person sources closest to Kris, including family members, business associates, and other intimatessome of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. In some instances, we have employed the technique of recreated dialogue.

The result is a dramatic narrative account of Kriss real story as youve never heard it before... in all its dirty, sexy glory.

INTRODUCTION

Its the greatest paradox when it comes to the Kardashians, one of the worlds most scandalous dynasties: Just how lowand how highcan this family go?

For Kris Jenner and her controversial Kardashian-Jenner clan, it seems there is no end in sight. From sanctioning incestuous comments on the familys sixteen-season flagship reality series Keeping Up With the Kardashians, to Kris being publicly outed as a little whore by her own daughter, Kourtney, the high-profile momager has said and done nearly everything to make her family millions and even billionsincluding allegedly selling her second eldest daughter Kims sex tape. In fact, the sixty-five-year-old matriarch has been suspected of having been the driving force behind the February 2007 public release of Kims X-rated home video, filmed three years earlier when Kim was twenty-three.

While Kris continues to profess her innocence, theres little room for doubt that Kris was there every step of the way as a middleman was brought in to market it to an adult entertainment company, an insider claimed. I saw Kris Jenners signature on the contract.

Inspired by Kims close pal and fellow Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton, who earned a whirlwind of publicity when her sex tape 1 Night in Paris was released shortly before the debut of Pariss reality series The Simple Life, Kris reportedly sold the rights to Kims sex tape to Vivid Entertainment for a reputed half-million dollars. The salacious footage was titled Kim Kardashian Superstar and put Kims faceand other body partson the world stage.

At the time of the videos release, Kim called it humiliating and added, I feel very betrayed, but Im not pointing any fingers. It has always been assumed she was referring to her on-screen partner as the driving force behind the sale.

The Kardashians initially refuted the disgusting and disturbing claim that Kris sold her daughter out. Kim then sued Vivid for violating her right to privacy, which raised questions as to whether Kim actually knew that the tape was being released, whether the lawsuit itself was part of a grand publicity scheme by Kris, or whether someone other than Kris was responsible for selling Kims video. However, Kim dropped the lawsuit in April 2007 and agreed to a lump-sum financial settlement with Vivid. Weve always known we had the legal right to distribute this video, a Vivid executive said at the time. Weve always wanted to work something out with Kim so she could share in the profits.

The Kardashians eventually conceded that Kims sex tape was the invaluable asset that introduced their family to the world. Kris slyly stated, We wouldnt be the Kardashians if we censored ourselves. The camera loves drama! Nudity and sex, to the Kardashian-Jenner clan, are commodities to be revered, not reviled. It has nothing to do with morals or values in their eyes. Their perception is not every persons cup of reality.

Having groomed her two youngest daughterstwenty-three-year-old Kendall and twenty-one-year-old Kyliefor the global spotlight, it seems there will be no shortage of ways for Kris to keep herself in the news in the futureand rake in the dough by exposing her family to public scrutiny.

To those who know her best, Kriss never-ending drive to embellish the family name is based not on stability and happiness, but on a never-enough attitude and an unquenchable thirst for publicity. Whether the TV drama is real or totally manufacturedas most people believeits clear that Kris has been pulling the strings behind the scenes, giving her stamp of approval as her familys antics seem to continually sink deeper into her pile of dirty sexy money. But the sex tape is not the beginning of the Kardashian-Jenner empire. She did not just fall into a vat of luck. The role of a ruthless business entrepreneur was one she had been preparing for all of her life.

PROLOGUE

On April 19, 2017, the Manhattan sky was lit up by Harpers BAZAAR and Tiffany & Co. in honor of the magazines 150th anniversary. Projected on the Empire State Building was a larger-than-life display that covered forty-two of the buildings 102-story frontage and memorialized fifteen decades of the most celebrated images from BAZAARs