Unpacking The Kardashians’ Most Explosive Scandals

The Kardashians have built an empire around fame, family, and reality TV, but their journey has also been filled with major controversies that generated plenty of headlines. If you're a fan of Kim Kardashian, you probably won't forget her first major scandal involving rapper Ray J, which helped put her name in the spotlight. Before Keeping Up With The Kardashians premiered in 2007, a private sex tape the couple made became public. However, in a 2022 Instagram video, Ray J claimed that Kim's mom, Kris Jenner, was aware of the tapes and had purposefully helped leak them. Another major controversy surrounding Kim was her 72-day marriage to NBA player Chris Humphries. The couple got married in August 2011, but Kim filed for divorce just 72 days later. Questions were raised about whether the marriage had been staged for publicity, especially after court documents revealed that Kim was paid $1.1 million to give People magazine access to her engagement photos. Kim disputed the claims, and Humphries later insisted that the relationship was 100% real in a 2019 essay published by The Player's Tribune.