Kim Kardashian

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Kim Kardashian (2018)

Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian West (born October 21, 1980 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American entrepreneur and reality TV participant, influencer , model and actress .

Family background

The Kardashian family is of Armenian descent, but Kim's father and grandfather were born in the United States. Her paternal great-grandfather was born near the then Russian , now Turkish small town of Kars in the village of Karakale. His parents were ecstatic subgroup of the Christian - Orthodox community of Molokans on. Kim Kardashian's father, celebrity attorney Robert Kardashian (1944-2003), was a close confidante of former football player and actor O. J. Simpson and a member of the defense team at his murder trial . Her mother Kris Jenner (formerly Kris Kardashian) comes from a family that has been living in America for a long time and has mixed English - Scottish - Irish - German - Dutch roots. Kim Kardashian is one of Caitlyn Jenner's stepdaughters .

Career

Kardashian became known in 2007, first by the Vivid Entertainment Group posted private sex tape, which she shared with the singer Ray J shows. She later dropped her civil lawsuit against Vivid Entertainment for a payment of five million US dollars . After she posed half-naked on the cover of Paper magazine in 2014 , sales of the sex video rose significantly.

In the fall of 2007, the first episodes of the family reality soap Keeping Up with the Kardashians were broadcast, which is mainly about Kim and her siblings Kourtney , Khloé and Robert Kardashian and her half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner . Kris Jenner (mother of all six) and Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner, former partner of Kris Jenner, biological father of Kendall and Kylie Jenner) also appear in the series. She has also appeared on TV shows and talk shows such as Larry King Live , The Simple Life , Late Show with David Letterman , Jimmy Kimmel Live! , The Tonight Show and Dancing with the Stars . As an actress, she worked as a supporting actress in the productions Beyond the Break , How I Met Your Mother , Drop Dead Diva and Disaster Movie . She also made an appearance on CSI: NY (Season 6, Episode 11).

On May 30, 2018 Kardashian was invited to visit in the Oval Office of the White House with US President Trump to discuss to prison reforms and convictions. Kardashian campaigned for the pardon of a 63-year-old African American woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for drug offenses . A few days later, Trump shortened the prison sentence of the woman who was thus released; Today she models for Kardashian's shapewear line Skims. In April 2019, in an interview with Vogue , Kardashian announced that she was doing a four-year internship with a lawyer with the aim of taking the bar exam in 2022. Kardashian wants to stand up for people in custody who have repaid their debt to society. The idea of ​​becoming a lawyer came to her while advising the White House on the pardon system. When she was there with judges and lawyers, she wanted to know more so that she could better help people.

Together with her sisters Kourtney and Khloé, Kim Kardashian runs the fashion boutique chain “DASH” and launched a fashion collection called “Kardashian Kollection”. In 2015, she generated around 40 percent of her total income with her mobile app , the mobile game "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood". In late June 2020, cosmetics company Coty announced a $ 200 million investment for a 20% stake in its cosmetics company KKW; just a few months earlier, Coty had acquired a majority stake of 51 percent in Kylie Cosmetics from her half-sister Kylie Jenner .

Private life

Kardashian lives in the Bel Air neighborhood of her birth town and hometown of Los Angeles .

From 2000 to 2004, Kardashian was married to music producer Damon Thomas . On August 20, 2011, she married basketball player Kris Humphries . On October 31, 2011, 72 days after the wedding, she filed for divorce because of "irreconcilable differences". On May 24, 2014, she married the rapper Kanye West in Florence, with whom she has been dating since early 2012; their daughter was born in June 2013. Their second child, a son, was born in December 2015. On January 15, 2018, their third child, a girl, was born to a surrogate mother. On May 10, 2019, another son was born by the same surrogate mother.

In October 2016, during her stay in Paris on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week , Kardashian was attacked in a palace in the city center and her jewelry worth around nine million euros was stolen. Kardashian, who was handcuffed and locked in the bathroom during the robbery, was unharmed. The five armed perpetrators dressed as police officers were able to escape undetected with the loot. On January 9, 2017, 17 suspects were arrested in France, two of whom admitted to the attack.

Filmography (selection)

Kardashian at the Tribeca Film Festival (2009)
than herself

Awards

Golden raspberry :

  • 2009 : Nomination for Worst Supporting Actress in Disaster Movie
  • 2014 : Worst Supporting Actress in Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Web links

Commons : Kim Kardashian  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Kardashian is keeping up with the Armenians . In: thesun.co.uk . December 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ Kim Kardashian's fellow villagers in Turkey to name school after her? . In: news.am .
  3. ↑ Kim Kardashian - Ethnicity of Celebs - What Nationality Ancestry Race . In: ethnicelebs.com .
  4. ↑ Robert Kardashian biography. worldbiography.net, accessed June 26, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Kim Kardashian sex tape sales skyrocket after pregnancy announcement. realitytvworld.com, 2013, accessed February 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Bottom photos ensure record sales of sex tape. In: focus.de. November 18, 2014, accessed November 28, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Johannes Kuhn Austin: Trump surprisingly meets Kim . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 4, 2019]).
  8. ↑ a b In the White House: Trump meets Kim . In: Spiegel Online . May 31, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 4, 2019]).
  9. ↑ After Kardashian request: Trump shortens the prison sentence of 63-year-olds . In: Spiegel Online . June 7, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 4, 2019]).
  10. ↑ https://noizz.de/fashion/skims-alice-marie-johnson-modelt-fur-kim-kardashians-shapewear-linie/knkmyhz
  11. ↑ Kim Kardashian's new career plans: "I've thought it over carefully . " In: Spiegel Online . April 11, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 11, 2019]).
  12. ↑ The Awakening of Kim Kardashian West. Accessed April 11, 2019 .
  13. ^ Boutique of the week: DASH Miami. miami.com, accessed June 26, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Kardashian Collection. vogue.co.uk, March 1, 2011, accessed March 1, 2011 .
  15. ↑ # 42 Kim Kardashian on forbes.com, accessed August 12, 2016.
  16. ↑ USA today: Coty to pay $ 200 million for a 20% stake in Kim Kardashian West's beauty business , July 1, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020
  17. ↑ Beauty industry: Kylie Jenner sells majority of cosmetics company for $ 600 million to Coty. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Living: At home with the stars . In: gala.de .
  19. ↑ Kim Kardashian. Ex pokes at her: "She can do nothing". oe24.at, May 20, 2010, accessed June 26, 2010 .
  20. ↑ Starlet Kim Kardashian remarried , fnp.de, August 21, 2011, accessed October 10, 2016.
  21. ↑ Kim Kardashian wants a divorce. Spiegel Online , October 31, 2011, accessed November 1, 2011 .
  22. ↑ Kim Kardashian: The baby is here! . In: Bunte.de .
  23. ↑ The son of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West is here. Morgenpost.de, December 5, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015 .
  24. ↑ Fourth child on the way thanks to a surrogate mother - and she already knows the gender. January 2, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Kim Kardashian shows Baby No. 4 for the first time. In: n-tv. June 11, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Tied up and locked in the bathroom. Spiegel Online , October 3, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Kim Kardashian attacked in Paris. Spiegel Online , October 3, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Felix Hutt: Die Schöne und die Ganoven, in: Stern No. 10, March 2, 2017, pp. 48–53, here 53.
personal data
SURNAME Kardashian, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kardashian, Kimberly Noel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American reality tv participant, entrepreneur, actress, and model
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States