At least one big book publisher has been scared off of issuing a new novel by a former friend of the Kardashian family, according to a report by the New York Post. The book presents a fictionalized account of events behind the release of Kim Kardashian’s infamous 2007 sex tape—showing the then-27-year-old socialite performing explicit sex acts with her then-boyfriend, singer William Raymond Norwood Jr., better known as “Ray J.”
The tape launched Kardashian out of the Los Angeles social scene to national fame, leading to the debut of her family’s reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians just a few months later. In the ensuing years, Kardashian has developed a career as a public figure and entrepreneur that has enabled her to accumulate a reported net worth of $350 million.
But it all started with the infamous sex tape, which Kardashian has long maintained was initially released without her consent, though she was paid a reported $5 million for rights to the tape by adult studio Vivid Entertainment.
In fact, Kardashian has maintained that when she filmed the sex video, she was under the influence of the drug MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, a claim reportedly denied by her partner in the sex tape, Ray J.
In the so-far unreleased novel by former Kardashian family friend Kevin Dickson, a character resembling Kim Kardashian, given the fictional name Zia Zandrian, engineers a $5 million sale of her own sex ape, in a deal encouraged by her mother, according to the Post account.
The paper reported that Dickson, the author of two previous books, was handed an unexpected rejection from one major publisher, after executives at the company decided that the legal risks of publishing the book “wouldn’t be worth the hassle,” according to a Post source.
But the book remains likely to see the light of day after all, according to the report.
“We’re told that Dickson’s currently in negotiations with two other houses, and a studio is interested in a TV adaptation,” the paper reported.
Though the Kardashian family would not comment to the Post on the allegations suggested by the book, or whether they were involved in an attempt to suppress it, both Vivid and Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner, have previously denied the elder Kardashian’s involvement in making the sex tape public.
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