Kardashians Win Big in Blac Chyna’s $100 Million Defamation, While the Kardashians are at the Met Gala, a jury has reached a decision in Blac Chyna’s $100 million defamation action against them, and she has won. Chyna was not awarded any damages as a result of the Kardashians’ victory. None of the Kardashians were found to have defamed Chyna or interfered with her E! contract, according to the verdict. The Kardashians allegedly persuaded the network to cancel Chyna’s reality show, “Rob & Chyna,” in which she co-starred with Rob Kardashian.
Chyna, a model and influencer who is Rob Kardashian’s ex-fiancée and the mother of his 5-year-old daughter Dream, filed a lawsuit against the Kardashians, alleging that they wrecked her reality TV career.
In 2016, E! aired a single season of “Rob & Chyna.” Chyna’s lawsuit claimed that the show was terminated after its first season because the Kardashian family allegedly told producers and network executives that Chyna physically assaulted Rob Kardashian in December 2016. Even though filming was ongoing, the Kardashians and E! officials testified that the show was never officially greenlit for a second season, therefore there was nothing to cancel.
On the one hand, Chyna alleged that Kris Jenner was the mastermind of a scheme in which the Kardashian-Jenners leveraged their wealth to push E! to cancel the reality programme.
However, the show’s family and executives claimed that it terminated because the couple had broken up, which was the show’s entire concept in other words, “Rob & Chyna” couldn’t continue without Rob and Chyna.
According to the Associated Press, the jury decided that the Kardashians “frequently acted in bad faith on the matters brought up in the lawsuit,” and that “it had no meaningful effect on Chyna’s contract or the fate of the show” after two days of deliberations.
Throughout the 10-day trial, text messages and emails were produced as evidence, representing the Kardashians speaking adversely about Chyna and informing E! that if Chyna was involved, they might cease filming “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” “We are even considering not pushing forward with our show if theirs continues, that’s how deeply we feel this is hurtful to our family,” Khloé Kardashian wrote in a text. When Kris Jenner testified, however, she stated that she did not have the authority to “influence” the network’s decision to cancel the show.
On most days, the Kardashian-Jenners sat in the first row of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse. Considering the defendants, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, who all testified, the trial was very low-key and received just a moderate amount of media attention compared to past legal media spectacles. Producers and executives from the reality television industry testified at the trial, including Ryan Seacrest, the creator of the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” franchise. Pete Davidson even turned up in court to defend his girlfriend, Kim, on one occasion.
The Kardashians’ attorney, Michael G. Rhodes, filed a motion to dismiss all of Chyna’s claims, claiming that her assertions “were ludicrous because there was no photographic evidence, economic analysis, or expert witness that would support them.”
One of Chyna’s defamation allegations against Kim Kardashian was dismissed by the judge, who found that Chyna’s counsel, Lynne Ciani, failed to offer any evidence during the trial that demonstrated Kim Kardashian was defamatory toward Chyna. However, the jury still had to decide on the other charges, which included claims for contract interference against Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, as well as defamation accusations against the latter three stars.
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