Kim Kardashian has always maintained that her infamous sex tape with Ray J spread without her consent, but according to Ray J, the leak was all planned and meticulously calculated. He told the Daily Mail that its public release was “a deal and a partnership between Kris Jenner and Kim and me and we’ve always been partners since the beginning of this thing.” He even showed proof on Instagram Live, showing his followers evidence that he and Kim each earned $400,000 from the tape and that Jenner selected which clip to show the masses. “We was in this s*** together,” he said (via the Los Angeles Times). “Kris, you know what you did.”
Meanwhile, Steven Hirsch, the chief of Vivid Entertainment — the firm behind the tape’s distribution — spilled to Page Six that Kardashian hadn’t initially yearned for the tape’s release but ultimately signed off on it. Otherwise, it would have never been released. “Ultimately [Kim] did sell us the footage so we had the ability to put it out and distribute it,” he said. While he refrained from specifying the exact amount Kardashian received, Kevin Blatt, a sex tape broker who tried to get his hands on the tape back in the day, told The U.S. Sun that Kardashian might have earned approximately $20 million from the deal. There’s no way to verify this figure, but it’s aligned with Hirsch’s revelation that it was the company’s most profitable release. “Revenue-wise it has generated more income than any other tape that we’ve done,” he said.
