Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel reckons she also has proof that Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian were responsible for leaking the infamous 2007 sex tape with Ray J.
ICYMI: Ray J shared a 44-minute video to Instagram featuring documents and Instagram DMs he exchanged with Kim, proving he did not leak the sex tape.
This was in response to Kris appearing on The Late Late Show With James Corden along with Kylie Jenner where the momager was hooked up to a lie detector test and forced to answer questions.
During the segment she denied her involvement in the leaking of the sex tape that launched the family to worldwide fame, prompting Ray J to retaliate:
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Now, Bethenny Frankel has shared a TikTok with alleged proof that the Kardashians were in on it.
Frankel defended Ray J, saying that “friends” have told her that Jenner “hired hair and makeup” for the tape.
“Why is everybody acting like this didn’t happen?” she said.
“This poor guy finally cracked because he’s gotta explain to his kids why he looks like he exploited someone else and why he’s left holding the bag.”
She went on to accuse the Kardashian family of pulling off “so many heists” over the years.
“It’s always the last little dumb one where you get jammed up,” she said. “Trees grow high, they don’t grow to the sky. Just, enough has to be enough. I said in my rant, ‘What is the message?’ Grab it all, take it all by any means necessary. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
She added, “I bet that Ray J just hasn’t been properly compensated and he’s been embarrassed in front of his family, and they keep exploiting it and capitalising on it.
“Ray J should get 10 percent commission for [lighting] the flame that created America’s first family.”
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In Ray J’s 44-minute Instagram takedown, he said: “You know what we did! Your mum controlled this whole sex tape deal with Joe Francis and [Vivid CEO] Steve Hirsch – it was her idea to put out the tape with Vivid. All I did was agree.
“Now you want to make it seem like I’m doing it again without your control. All those fake tears. Your fans trusting you to be honest and sincere but it’s all fake for the cameras. I was playing my part until you started doing all of this!
“What are you trying to ruin me when you know I was just a player in this! You have to stop believing you own lies! I have to let the world know the real [because] you’ve taken it too far now. Somebody needs to explain the play you are doing to me ASAP or I will have no choice but to protect my brand and family and expose real.”
Kim replied that she didn’t say anything bad in The Kardashians ep, which featured the “new footage” that was allegedly going to be leaked by Ray’s manager Wack 100.
“The show filmed in real time the day in hell that I had with my lawyers when your manager threatened to release another tape that doesn’t exist – and my son who was five years old at the time seeing an ad with my cry face emoji that said “Kim’s new sex tape” as click bate in Roblox,” Kardashian wrote.
“It was upsetting to have to deal with and I am sure can understand how that feels. My ‘burn them to the ground’ comment was a generalisation to anyone threatening to hold this over my head 20 years later. We are both parents now with young kids and careers and I’m sure you want to move on from this just like I do. But your manager is the person who brought this all up out of nowhere and I have a right to share how it affected me.
“Next week’s episode airs where Kanye brings me the computer and he says he got back from you, which shows you in a positive light for giving that to him. Thank you for doing that. Just spoke with my team. We will get something out tomorrow morning to clarify that this was a joke and that you would never gave done something like this. Hope this helps and I’m sorry [too].”
“I’m tired of playing that role as the villain. I did it for us in the beginning but now without your support it fucks me over bad,” he wrote.
Kim replied: “Wow I had no idea that that was supposed to be private. I was filming my normal days and that just happened and I had no clue and I actually thought you and Wack were working together [because] on his [Instagram] it says he’s your manager in his bio.
“So this entire time I thought [you were] working together and I was so confused at the statement you put out saying [you had] nothing to do with it. I just think that story above is powerful and [shows] that we are working together for the future of our children and families to get this out of the Internet.”
Ray responded: “But are we really trying to do it? Steve won’t allow it – so we can pretend to do that but it still probably won’t happen. Plus, won’t people say, ‘Why is Ray J trying to get it off the Internet when I’m the one who put it out in their minds?’ Doesn’t it get extremely confusing?”
Kim continued: “Because you grew up and have a family and people change their minds. Let my call the team one sec. I just wanted to be clear with you if you wanted it out there that we spoke. I don’t want to create any drama at home. But the story that we will work together to speak to Vivid to get it pulled off the air is a bigger story and [shows] unity and that there’s no more bad blood or drama.”
Ray then watched the episode where Kanye West retrieved the sex tape laptop and told Kim he’d “never let them extort us again.”
“I’m just showing you all this because I’m putting this all out for my kids. I’m tired of playing games. I don’t give a fuck. I’m not that n**** that they say I am. I’ve never been, dawg. I’m tired of motherfuckers thinking that ‘It’s just this bad little thing in the past you did, but it’s okay and we’ll look the other way’.
“Nah, we ain’t looking the other way. Fuck that. As long as my name cleared, everybody getting sued because they all motherfucking putting out fake stories. Look, so I see this shit and I’m like, ‘Y’all wanna play games with me? Ok let’s play’.”
He then proceeded to share his original sex tape contract, which stipulated that they both received USD$400K.
“There’s no way I could use Kim Kardashian’s name in this contract if she wasn’t a part of it, right?” he said.
“I got 12.5%. Kim got 12.5%. She’s got the same exact contract as I got so when we go to court, guess what? They gotta pull that up because we gotta see that.”
On the page listing the deliverables of the contract, Ray claims it was Kim who personally handwrote the list of the three tapes because she wanted to speed along the process.
Ray also alleged that he had the note scanned for fingerprints that supposedly matched the fingerprints on the contract.
He even claimed that three sex tapes were made and Kris chose her favourite one to be leaked.
“She watched and said ‘We’re gonna go with the first one cause it’s better, it gives my daughter a better look’,” he alleged.
Ray J reveals his DMs with Kim Kardashian after the ‘fabricated’ laptop recovery story came out on their Hulu show. pic.twitter.com/Mx7ChxKu6W
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He added, “I was just gonna handle this shit legally and just hit you in court and get what I deserve from all of y’all being foul and trying to defame me, trying to make me look bad.”
The star concluded the video by calling out to Kris and Kim that, “We are going through receipts tonight,” adding, “Everything that I got, Imma let them see.”
Ray J previously slammed the family in an interview with the Daily Mail back in May of this year.
“I’ve sat in the shadows for over 14 years allowing the Kardashians to use my name, to abuse my name, make billions of dollars over a decade and a half talking about a topic I’ve never really spoken about,” he said.
“I’ve never leaked anything. I have never leaked a sex tape in my life. It has never been a leak.”
The songwriter claimed that Kim and Kris Jenner were not only aware that the sex tape was going public, but they were allegedly involved in the deal as well.
He also slammed claims made in the aforementioned episode of The Kardashians.
“I never had a single one at my house — she had them at her house. She’s always had all the tapes in a Nike shoe box under her bed,” he claimed.
“That’s how it all came about. Once I pitched the idea to her, just playing around a little bit, that’s when she jumped on the idea, talked to her mom and it was out of my hands from there.”
After the sex tape went public, Ray J says he struggled with the backlash that ensued.
“I felt suicidal because when you know something’s real and it’s true and you’re watching a whole family create an empire from a lie they’ve created, it’s heartbreaking and disrespectful to all the entertainers who have been honest and true to their craft,” the singer explained.
“Because of what they made me, I’m not allowed to be in those places.
“For me, I’ve been walking on eggshells thinking I’m going to get in trouble for telling the truth and I’ve been holding onto it for the past 14 years and watching them humiliate me. They’re celebrating my destruction.”
He also blasted claims that Kanye West retrieved a second sex tape from him late last year.
“It wasn’t a sex tape — it was a lot of pictures, a lot of little mini videos and a lot of proof we’ve been talking over the years [since our split],” the entrepreneur shared. “If you send me an email in 2008, the computer doesn’t change the date on it.”
Ray J shared screenshots of an alleged DM convo between him and Kardashian.
In the convo, Ray J questioned the comments Kim made about the alleged second tape potentially being footage of her when she wasn’t awake. Kardashian appeared to clarify that she was joking.
She also offered to put out a statement making it clear that she wasn’t trying to involve Ray J in the situation on-screen.
