Kim Kardashian ‘made $20M from sex tape

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KIM WIN Kim Kardashian ‘made $20M from sex tape’ with Ray J & raunchiest footage was left out of clip, broker claims

KIM Kardashian bagged at least $20 million from her infamous sex tape with Ray J - but the raunchiest footage was deleted from the final video, a celebrity porn broker has claimed.

Kevin Blatt, Hollywood's most notorious sex tape broker, claimed in an exclusive interview with The Sun that he was offered the chance to buy the tape from Ray J in 2006, describing him as "eager" to strike a deal.

Kim Kardashian and Ray J briefly dated in the early 2000s when Kim was working as a stylist for Brandy Melville, Ray J's sister
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Kim Kardashian and Ray J briefly dated in the early 2000s when Kim was working as a stylist for Brandy Melville, Ray J's sisterCredit: Getty
Kevin Blatt claims he was offered the chance to buy their sex tape in 2006
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Kevin Blatt claims he was offered the chance to buy their sex tape in 2006Credit: Kevin Blatt
Representatives for Kim Kardashian and Ray J have not yet returned a request for comment, but both stars have routinely denied having any involvement in the video's release.

Meanwhile Blatt, now 52, said he was informed of the tape's existence by a childhood friend who was working at Adult Video News at the time.

Though Blatt said he was unaware of who Ray J was, he agreed to meet the rapper - who is the brother of R&B singer Brandy Melville - at a local Cheesecake Factory for lunch to learn more about the contents of the video.

"This little guy pulled up in a Lamborghini and came walking in the restaurant," Blatt remembered.

Ray J, who Blatt described as "very funny" and sharp, then proceeded to tell him and his friend all about a video he'd captured of a sexual encounter he'd shared with a woman that neither Blatt nor his friend had heard of.

'BIGGER THAN PARIS'
The woman, it would turn out, was Kim Kardashian, a then-relatively unknown fashion stylist who was close friends with reality TV behemoth Paris Hilton.

Blatt had made his name in the sordid trade of celebrity sex tape brokering two years earlier by facilitating the release of Paris Hilton's sex tape with Rick Salomon, One Night In Paris.

Kim's tape, Ray J explained, had been filmed in 2002 when he was on vacation with Kim in Cabo, Mexico, in celebration of her 22nd birthday.

According to Blatt, Ray J allegedly told him that Kim "wanted to release the sex tape for free the weekend before but he had to talk her out of it."

"Ray J told me, 'She wants to be bigger than Paris,'" Blatt claimed. "I told him, ‘Ray J, you cannot let her release it for free - don’t let her do that.

"'There’s too much money out there," Blatt allegedly continued, "'I can give you the best deal ever and I’m gonna bring in somebody who’s gonna pay you a million dollars right now.'"

TAPE RELEASE SPARKS FALLOUT
Ray J is alleged to have responded that Blatt's proposal "sounded good" but he needed to consult with Kim first.

But Blatt said he never heard from Ray J again, and ultimately the video was given by a third party to Vivid Entertainment, an adult film distribution company.

"I was ready to make a deal with him and pay him more money than he’s ever seen but he went behind our back and that’s fine," Blatt said.

The 41-minute tape was released months later in March 2007 under the title Kim Kardashian: Superstar.

Kim filed a lawsuit against Vivid soon after, accusing the company of releasing the tape without her permission.

She quickly dropped the suit after enlisting the help of Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, a friend of the Kardashian family, who helped acquire her $5 million for the tape's distribution instead.

KIM CATAPULTED TO STARDOM
Like Hilton before her, Kim's sex tape went on to make her a huge star.

Around eight months after the video's release, she and the rest of her family went on to star on their own reality TV series on E!, Keeping Up With The Kardashians - catapulting them to global fame.

Vivid Entertainment founder Steven Hirsch previously revealed that Kim's sex tape is his company's "best-selling movie of all time", and has generated millions of dollars in sales.

“I can only say that it’s the most popular tape we’ve ever done," he told the NY Post in 2017.

“Revenue-wise it has generated more income than any other tape that we’ve done.”

KIM'S REGRETS
While precisely how the sex tape came to be leaked will likely always raise an eyebrow of suspicion among some, Kim has often spoken publicly about how she wishes she could "erase" the clip.

“That is something that I have to live with for the rest of my life. That is something that’s, like, being held over my head,” Kim said during the reunion episode of Season 20 of Keeping Up With The Kardashians (KUWTK).

“I try not to have any regrets, but it’s probably the one thing that I wish didn’t exist, and if I could erase any of the stupid things that I’ve done in life, that’s probably it. And it’s more so from being a mom than anything.”

While she regretted making the tape, Kim said she believes that KUWTK wouldn’t have been as successful as it is had the film not been leaked.

“Looking back, probably not,” she said. "I think that everything happens for a reason and I really try to live like that.

"Every time there’s a crazy scandal that feels like you can’t breathe and how are you gonna get through this, it always is a lesson.

"Even if it’s a private lesson, or even if it’s just something that we didn’t know we had to go through.”

Blatt voiced admiration for Kim, and Paris Hilton, for outliving the 15 minutes of fame their respective tapes gave them and using the platform to catapult themselves to the upper echelons of stardom.

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