Kimberly Noel Kardashian born October 21, is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton , but received wider notice after the sex tape Kim Kardashian, Superstar , which she filmed in with her then-boyfriend Ray J , was released in Her acting credits include the films Disaster Movie , Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor , two PAW Patrol films and , and the twelfth season of the anthology horror series American Horror Story β Time magazine included Kardashian on their list of 's most influential people.
Kardashian has become more politically active by lobbying for prison reform and clemency , [ 16 ] and, as of [update] , is under a four-year law apprenticeship supervised by the legal nonprofit Cut Simpson during his murder trial.
Simpson was Kardashian's godfather. In , after entering into her first marriage, she resigned. Norwood also alleged that the bulk of the charges were attributable to purchases made at Kardashian's family-owned boutique in and , after Kardashian was no longer employed by Norwood's daughter. Norwood further alleged that, at the request of her children, she did not file criminal charges, instead presenting her allegations personally to Kardashian, and that Kardashian apologized and promised to repay the debt.
In , no payments having been forthcoming, Norwood filed a lawsuit. Kardashian has denied all these allegations. In , the parties reportedly reached a confidential settlement, and the lawsuit was dismissed.
In , Kardashian had begun working as a stylist for Paris Hilton , a childhood friend of hers. She appeared in several episodes of the reality series The Simple Life and was frequently photographed accompanying Hilton to events and parties. Rick Mendozza, a freelance photographer on assignment for the tabloid TMZ , remarked in the same interview that, when Kardashian accompanied Hilton to nightclub Hyde, which was a Hollywood hotspot at the time, he continued to get assignments from tabloids to get photographs of Kardashian for the next three years.
