According to The Sun, Kardashian is concerned that her ex-boyfriend still has intimate recordings of her and intends to sell them for a multimillion-dollar profit.

As a result, the mother of four has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees in an attempt to prevent the rapper from distributing the clips.

“Kim knows that Ray J made other tapes of them together,” a source close to the reality TV star said. Some of the footage is extremely personal. ‘Over my dead body, is this happening again,’ she has told lawyers.” According to the source, Kardashian will protect her family “at all costs.”

“The last thing I want as a mum is my past to be brought up 20 years later. This is really embarrassing and I need to deal with it. Had my son been a little bit older and been able to read, I would have been mortified. I died inside. This is supposed to be unreleased footage. I really don’t know what they have”.

Despite her family’s efforts to prevent the tape’s release, the SKIMS founder’s first sex tape was released in 2007 by Vivid Entertainment under the title “Kim Kardashian: Superstar.” Kardashian quickly filed a lawsuit against Vivid, but it was quickly dropped when family friend and Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis worked with the reality TV star to secure US$5 million for the distribution of the tape.

The first sex tape launched her into stardom.

Kardashian was relatively unknown at the time, and despite fears that the private tape would jeopardize her chances of a career in the spotlight, it instead catapulted her to stardom. Months later, the star and her family would launch Keeping Up with the Kardashians with the help of her business savvy “momager,” Kris Jenner.

Kanye West, the star’s ex-husband, claimed in January that he stopped a second sex tape from being released.

According to the New York Post, the reality star was so relieved that she burst into tears when West handed her a laptop with the tape on it. West addressed the issue in an interview with Hollywood Unlocked, saying, “I went and got the laptop from Ray J myself that night. I met this man at the airport, took a red-eye flight, and returned at 8 a.m. to deliver it to her.”

He went on to say, “She cried when she saw it. You know why she cried when she seen it on the laptop? Because it represents how much she’s been used” said Ye. “It represents how much people didn’t love her, and they just saw her as a commodity.”

The Yeezy fashion designer told Jason Lee of “Hollywood Unlocked” that, despite his ongoing divorce from Kardashian, he allegedly did her the ultimate favour and got the tape back.

“I went and got the laptop from Ray J myself that night,” West, 44, said during the interview, which was released on Monday. “I met this man at the airport, then got on a red-eye, came back [and] delivered it to her at 8 a.m. in the morning.”

West further claimed that the Skims founder was so relieved at the sight of the laptop that she broke down in tears.

“She cried when she saw it. You know why she cried when she seen it on the laptop? Because it represents how much she’s been used,” the rapper said. “It represents how much people didn’t love her, and they just saw her as a commodity.”

A spokesperson for Kardashian confirmed there was a laptop but denied any existence of explicit content.

“The computer and hard drive collected were supposed to contain the original video and any unseen footage. After review, there was nothing sexual unseen, only footage on the plane on the way to Mexico and footage at a club and restaurant on the same trip,” read the statement.

“Kim remains firm in her belief that there is no new second tape that exists. After 20 years, she truly wishes to move on from this chapter [and] focus instead on the positive things she continues to do as a mother, entrepreneur and advocate for justice reform.”

A source also told Page Six that Kardashian was “very emotional” when her estranged husband returned with the computer and hard drive.

“Kim was and still is truly grateful to Kanye for getting it back,” the insider shared. “The tape caused her a lot of pain and continues to haunt her to this day. Even though they are no longer together as a couple, they remain aligned with the same concerns about how this content that continues to be used against her will affect their four young kids in the future.”

Kardashian, 41, rose to fame after her and then-boyfriend Ray J’s sex tape leaked in 2007. Shortly thereafter, she and her family launched “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

In September 2021, the “One Wish” crooner’s former manager Wack 100 said on a podcast he had “part two” of the infamous sex tape, but the KKW Beauty mogul’s attorney Marty Singer quickly shot down the claims as a desperate attempt for attention.

“The claim that there is an unreleased sex tape is unequivocally false,” Marty Singer told Page Six in a statement at the time.https://02d15cc9a31776e3d70fa4e704de710e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

“It is unfortunate that people make these statements to try and get their 15 minutes of fame.”

Ray J also came out and said the rumour of a second sex tape “ain’t cool.”

“This ain’t cool – I been staying off the Raydar – Just staying focused and being humble and thankful for all the blessings I’m receiving,” Ray wrote in his social-media response. “How can I show growth and maturity if this kinda of stuff keeps happening?”

Wack, who has been spotted with West recently, claimed the second sex tape he allegedly had in his possession was “more graphic and better than” the one that was famously released. In a bizarre twist, Wack allegedly offered it up to Kim’s estranged husband so he could sell it as an NFT.

“I would never give it to anybody but Kanye,” he said. “That’s the mother of his children.”

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