KIM KARDASHIAN HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST MEDIA TAKE OUT,
CLAIMING THAT THEY LIBELED HER BY HIM ALLEGING THAT SHE MADE UP
THE STORY ABOUT GETTING ROBBED BY FIVE ARMED GUNMEN IN PARIS.
ACCORDING TO THE SUIT, MEDIA TAKE OUT PUBLISHED A SERIES
OF STORIES IN WHICH THEY CLAIMED WITHOUT ANY FACTUAL SUPPORT
WHATSOEVER THAT KARDASHIAN FAKED THE ROBBERY, LIED ABOUT THE
VIOLENT ASSAULT, AND THEN FILED A FRAUDULENT COMPLAINT WITH
HER INSURANCE COMPANY TO BUILD HER CARRIER OUT OF MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS.
SHE DID GET ROBBED OF MORE THAN $10 MILLION WORTH OF JEWELRY,
AND THEY ARE ARGUING THAT SHE IS LYING ABOUT IT TO MAKE MONEY.
BY THE WAY, MEDIA TAKE OUT HAS TAKEN THESE STORIES DOWN
AND THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY STATEMENTS ABOUT THIS SO
FAR, BUT KIM KARDASHIAN IS FABULOUSLY WEALTHY, WHY
WOULD SHE MAKE UP A STORY OF GETTING ROBBED IN PARIS TO GET
$10 MILLION OUT OF HER INSURANCE COMPANY?
I GET THAT IT'S A LOT OF MONEY, BUT YOU HAVE NO FACTS TO
BACK THAT UP.
JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A MEDIA ORGANIZATION DOESN'T MEAN
YOU CAN REPORT WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT.
NOW UNFORTUNATELY, THEY DID TAKE IT DOWN AND I WAS UNABLE TO
READ THEIR FULL STORIES, BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW ñ
THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS OF REPORTING THINGS, BECAUSE
IF YOU REPORT, I THINK SHE MADE IT UP, YOU ARE PROTECTED
UNDER LAW, BECAUSE YOU WANT TO REPORTING THAT AS FACT, YOU
ARE SPECULATING AND BEING CLEAR THAT YOU ARE SPECULATING.
IF YOU ARE SAYING KIM KARDASHIAN LIED ABOUT THE ROBBERY,
THEN YOU CAN GET SUED, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S FALSE
AND YOU HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT WAS THE CASE.
YEAH, AND YOU KNEW THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE.
EXACTLY.
YOU ARE ASKING FOR SPECULATION, I HAVE IT.
NOW, THE KARDASHIANS, KIND OF LIKE TRUMP, SAY THEY ARE
FABULOUSLY WEALTHY, THAT'S PART OF THEIR LETTER, COME PLAY OUR
APPS AND WATCH OUR SHOWS BECAUSE YOU WILL GET TO LIVE
VICARIOUSLY THROUGH US AND BE FAMOUS AND RICH AND STUFF,
SO YOU WOULD WANT TO KEEP UP THAT FA«ADE.
AND AS WE KNOW WITH TRUMP, HE'S NOT AS RICH AS HE SAYS HE IS.
AND THEN REMEMBER, KANYE WEST, HER HUSBAND WAS BEGGING HER FOR
MONEY A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, AND WAS SAYING IT WAS RACIST
THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG DIDN'T JUST GIVE HIM $50 MILLION.
IS THAT A THING NOW?
ANYWAY, SO IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THEY ARE OUT OF MONEY, GIVEN
THAT HER HUSBAND WAS BEGGING FOR MONEY A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
YEAH, LOOK, I THINK THE ROBBERY HAPPENED.
OBVIOUSLY I WASN'T THERE, BUT BASED ON THE DETAILED
ACCOUNT THAT WAS GIVEN, THAT WAS AN EXTREMELY SOMATIC
EXPERIENCE FOR HER TO GO THROUGH.
THEY GO INTO HER ROOM, THEY TIED HER UP, SHE'S WEARING
NOTHING BUT A WHITE ROBE, SHE'S MAKING FOR HER LIFE, SHE
THINK THEY ARE GOING TO RAPE HER.
SHE'S BEEN MIA SINCE IT HAPPENED, THERE'S PEOPLE
HAVE COME FORWARD AND SAID SHE WAS SO TRAUMATIZED THAT SHE
IS NOT DOING WELL.
TO DEAL WITH THAT AND THEN DEAL WITH ALL OF THE REPORTING
ON TOP OF THAT, ALL THE PEOPLE IN SOCIAL MEDIA MAKING
LIGHT OF IT, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE.
SO GOOD FOR HER, IF THIS IS LIBEL, GO AFTER THEM AND
SUE THEM.
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW, I AM NOT ENVIOUS OF HER WHATSOEVER.
I WOULD NOT WANT HER FAME OR FORTUNE, I WOULD NOT WANT
HER LIFE, BECAUSE THIS IS TERRIBLE.
SO ANA, YOU ARE RIGHT BUT THE REASON MIGHT PEOPLE SPECULATE ON
THIS ISSUE IS, THERE'S A FAMILY WHO HAS ñ THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER
IS FAKE CONTROVERSIES, AND GRABBING ATTENTION IN HUGE MEDIA
EVENTS, AND ñ REMEMBER, SHE ALSO SUED VIVID ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE
LEAKED PORNO TAPE; THE ONE THAT MADE HER FAMOUS IN THE
FIRST PLACE, WHICH MULTIPLE THINK THEY LEAKED.
AND SHE GOT PAID A LOT OF MONEY ON THAT, IN A DEAL SHE MADE WITH
VIVID.
IT'S NOT LIKE SHE WON THE CASE, THEY MADE A DEAL.
SO SHE HAS A HISTORY OF SUING PEOPLE IN HUGE MEDIA
MOMENTS, ETC.
HOW DID THEY GET PAST SECURITY?
I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN ñ
I SWEAR TO GOD I'M NOT, I HAVE NO EARTHLY IDEA, AND LIKELY
THE OCCAM'S RAZOR, THE SIMPLEST ANSWER IS LIKELY TO BE TRUE.
BECAUSE WHAT, THE HOTEL, WHERE THEY IN ON IT?
WERE THE CLERKS IN ON IT AT THE HOTEL, ETC.,
WHERE THE FRENCH POLICE IN ON IT?
I DON'T KNOW, AND LIKELY THE ANSWER IS EXACTLY WHAT SHE
SAYS, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY IS THE
ONE THAT ANA IS EMPHASIZING, WHICH IS, YOU CAN SPECULATE
ALL YOU WANT, BUT YOU CAN'T WRITE A NEW STORY SAYING
THAT IT'S A FACT THAT SHE'S MAKING IT UP, AND, YOU
KNOW, X, Y, & Z, IF YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE FACTS.
EXACTLY, SPECULATE ALL YOU WANT.
YOU KNOW I'M NOT A KARDASHIAN FAN AT ALL, I'VE SET A LOT OF
NEGATIVE THINGS OVER THE YEARS, BUT NO ONE DESERVES TO GO
WHAT SHE IS GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.
IT'S NOT PERSONAL, YOU HAVE TO DISLIKE SOMEBODY TO DISLIKE
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
AND JUST BECAUSE YOU DISLIKE SOMEBODY AND WHAT THEY HAVE
DONE IN THE PAST, DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING.
YEAH, WHEN WE ORIGINALLY COVERED THIS STORY, I EVEN SAID, I
HATE DONALD TRUMP, I DESPISE HIM, THE HATRED I HAVE
TOWARDS HIM IS UNPRECEDENTED, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I
WANT TO BE CLEAR, IF THIS HAD HAPPENED TO HIM, I WOULD HAVE
SYMPATHY BECAUSE HE IS A HUMAN BEING AT THE END OF THE DAY.
RIGHT, HE'S A HUMAN AND WE ARE HUMANS, SO IF WE SEE
SOMEONE GOING THROUGH PAIN I HOPE THE RIGHT RESPONSE IS
A LITTLE BIT OF EMPATHY, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T AGREED WITH ALL
THEIR PAST ACTIONS.
EXACTLY.
YEAH, SO GIVE HER A BREAK, AND CAN WE JUST, FOR ONCE ñ AND IF
IT'S PROVEN FALSE LATER, THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT ñ BUT CAN
WE JUST GIVE SOMEONE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT ONLINE?
I KNOW, IT'S A WILD AND CRAZY IDEA, JUST THROWING THAT
IDEA OUT FOR YOU IN CASE YOU WANT TO EXERCISE IT.