Ray J is firing back at Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner, filing a countersuit after the pair accused him of defamation.
The singer—real name William Ray Norwood Jr.—submitted the cross-complaint on Thursday, alleging breach of contract over what he describes as a binding agreement requiring all parties to stop publicly discussing his infamous sex tape with Kardashian.
According to court documents reviewed by EW, Ray J’s attorneys say he previously took legal action in 2023 after Kardashian allegedly revived new controversy around the tape to promote The Kardashians on Hulu. He claims the show falsely suggested he sexually assaulted Kardashian and leaked an unreleased tape through a former manager.
Ray J says that after entering mediation, Kardashian agreed to pay him $6 million, and that all of the involved parties agreed to “refrain” from “any further public reference to the S£x Tape,” which included references on The Kardashians. He claims that the mediation also resulted in an agreement that Kardashian and Norwood “cannot disparage each other,” and that their agreement “constitutes the settlement of all past, current, or future disputes” between them.
The singer alleges that one month after reaching the agreement, two episodes of season 3 of The Kardashians contained multiple references to the sex tape, thus breaching their contract.
The complaint claims that Kardashian and Jenner “insisted” that the agreement didn’t cover season 3, since those episodes were filmed prior to the final agreement, and also alleges that they “tried to coax” Norwood into “signing an amendment” to the agreement, which he declined.
Kardashian and Jenner sued Ray J claiming defamation in October, citing his comments to TMZ (“If you told me the Kardashians was being charged for racketeering, I might believe it”) and in a Twitch livestream (“The federal RICO I’m about to drop on Kris and Kim is ’bout to be crazy”) as defamatory.
In his countersuit, Ray J claims that the reality stars “materially and substantially breached” their prior agreement, as “the Agreement does not allow Kardashian and Jenner to push their propaganda publicly in a lawsuit.”
The singer also claims in the complaint that Jenner arranged for Kardashian and Norwood to sign agreements with porn company Vivid Entertainment, which eventually released the sex tape as Kim Kardashian, Superstar in 2007. (Norwood previously claimed that Jenner orchestrated the s£x tape’s release with Kardashian’s help in 2022, which the reality matriarch denied in a Late Late Show lie detector test.)
He alleges that Kardashian filed “a bogus lawsuit” against Vivid “to create buzz” for the s£x tape, and that her public claims that she “did not intend, authorize or consent to the distribution” were “lies.”
His complaint later connects that alleged Vivid agreement to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
“Norwood saw parallels between RICO and Kardashian’s and Jenner’s conspiracy with Vivid to release and lie about the Sex Tape as well as Cross-Defendants’ conspiracy to trick him into signing the Agreement before broadcasting further content about the Sex Tape,” the complaint says. “Norwood considered whether he should bring his own lawsuit against Kardashian and Jenner under the civil RICO statute and whether they would be prosecuted for RICO violations.”
Ray J is seeking at least $1 million in damages, as well as a judicial declaration of relief from Kardashian and Jenner’s lawsuit.
