Money Shot: Leaked Email Reveals Huge Earnings Of Kim Kardashian’s Infamous… “Home Movie”

We at all times assumed that the notorious Kim Kardashian/Ray J intercourse tape that made the previous right into a family identify again in 2007 will need to have been a really profitable endeavor, given its excessive stage of visibility again in these pre-widespread-social-media days. And because it seems, our assumptions have been proper.

An e mail from the early days of the tape’s launch lately uncovered by TMZ reveals simply how a lot income it generated in its preliminary weeks. Each Kardashian and Ray J have been making a bundle in these early days after settling with the grownup distribution firm Vivid Leisure.

Conspiracy theories about how the tape truly made it to the general public have swirled for years, and Kardashian household matriarch Kris Jenner lately addressed (and denied) the idea that she was behind all of it whereas linked to a lie detector for a bit on late evening TV . This provoked Ray J to ramp up his claims that Jenner was concerned within the tape’s launch from the beginning, one thing everybody within the Kardashian camp, in addition to Vivid chief Steve Hirsch, denies.

What we do know for positive if that Kardashian filed a lawsuit towards Vivid roughly a month earlier than the scheduled launch of the tape, one which was evidently settled out of court docket a couple of month and a half after that launch, in April of 2007.

Now, TMZ has despatched an e mail by Hirsch to Kardashian only a few days after that settlement was reached, touting the tape’s gross sales figures and together with the contracts signed by each Kardashian and Ray J.

Based on these figures, “Kim Kardashian, Celebrity” had made just a little over $1.4 million within the first six weeks of its launch. Particularly, $1,424,636.63.

The majority of these earnings, $1,255,578.50, got here from gross sales of the tape on DVD.

The paperwork additionally mirror figures that had beforehand been shared by Ray J, specifically that each he and Kardashian made $400,000 every for the tape, plus a 12.5 % reduce of future earnings.

And whereas these hundreds of thousands of {dollars} have been earned simply within the very early days of the tape’s launch, the cash stored rolling in even years later. In November 2014 Ray J revealed that he usually made $90,000 each three months from Vivid because of the notorious residence film. That provides as much as $360,000 per yr. The determine would rocket greater when Kim was within the information.

It is in all probability value noting that Kris Jenner’s identify seems nowhere within the e mail or the contract, suggesting that she wasn’t concerned within the sale of the tape both earlier than or after Kim’s lawsuit.