Rob Kardashian claimed a settlement agreement between him and ex-fiancéeBlac Chyna was torn up.- The alleged settlement dealt with Chyna's
revenge porn lawsuit against Kardashian.
Rob Kardashian's legal team has asked a Los Angeles judge to delay a trial set for next week in his ex-fiancée Blac Chyna's revenge porn lawsuit against him, claiming that she backed out of a settlement agreement in the eleventh hour, according to court documents.
Kardashian's lawyers claimed that a settlement was tentatively reached when Kardashian and Chyna agreed that he would help her get dropped as a defendant from a separate case. That case was brought by Chyna's former boyfriend Justin Jones against the pair for disclosure of private information, and according to the filings, the agreement stipulated that Kardashian would settle with Jones without Chyna having to pay for the settlement.
"At best, Chyna's belated repudiation of the parties' settlement agreement is a strategy to exact monies from Rob at the eleventh hour," Kardashian's lawyers wrote in a June filing asking for the trial to be pushed back. "At worst, it is a tactic deliberately intended to interfere with Rob's preparation for trial and prejudice his ability to fully and fairly present his defense."
They claimed that Chyna's lawyer Lynne Ciani started settlement negotiations in early May but that by early June, Chyna had changed her mind.
"On or about May 23, 2022, Defendant Robert Kardashian and Plaintiff Angela White (a/k/a Blac Chyna) entered into a settlement agreement on terms first proposed twelve (12) days earlier by Chyna, by and through her attorney, Lynne Ciani," Kardashian's lawyers wrote in a June 6 filing, adding that there was a written agreement. "Unfortunately, after the parties entered into the settlement agreement, in a complete reversal, Chyna and Ms. Ciani repudiated the agreement and tried to back out of the deal because Chyna changed her mind."
In July 2017, Chyna secured a restraining order against Kardashian, claiming that he had abused her after their split when Kardashian went on an online revenge porn tirade, posting a series of nude photos of his ex-fiancée.
Kardashian shared a photo of Chyna in the hospital during the outburst, appearing to publicly shame her for an alleged weight loss surgery.
"Everyone wonders how Chyna lost all that weight after the baby and she lies to everyone but no I'm such a great Husband that on our anniversary I paid [$100,000] to do this surgery to get all everything fixed as much as they could. And then guess what she did after she was all healed when I was by her side the entire time. She left me and my baby which she had out of spite to get back at her other baby daddy. I can't believe [you] would disrespect me like this," Kardashian said in a caption to a now-deleted instagram post.
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"As a result, it was not just Rob's over nine million Instagram followers that witnessed his social media attack on Ms. White but rather the entire world witnessed it as well," the complaint stated.
"At no time did Rob Kardashian have Ms. White's permission to publish these photos or information online, nor did Rob Kardashian ever attempt to seek Ms. White's consent to share these photos or her personal medical information," Chyna's lawyer Lynne Ciani added in the complaint.
In an April filing, Kardashian claimed that he posted the photos with Chyna's consent and denied "that Ms. White had an expectation of privacy in the images."
"He also disputes that his conduct caused Ms. White to sustain any mental pain and suffering, humiliation or emotional distress, and contends that Ms. White is not entitled to recover monetary damages," his lawyers added.
Attorneys for Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
The upcoming case centered around invasion of privacy and emotional distress claims was originally attached to a defamation lawsuit against multiple members of the Kardashian family, who she alleged jeopardized her TV career after her split with Rob.
Chyna was seeking $100 million in damages from Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, alleging that they unfairly trash-talked her to E! executives five years ago following her split with Rob Kardashian and that it led to the cancellation of their "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" spin-off series, "Rob & Chyna."
During the trial in late April and early May, Blac Chyna was brought to tears when a lawyer for the Kardashian-Jenner family presented her with a binder containing her leaked nude photos in court – causing a stir as her lawyer worried that they would also be presented to the jury, but they were not.
In a tense exchange at the time, Chyna's lawyer Lynne Ciani told the court that the lawyers had an agreement not to publicize the photos in any of the cases.
Rob Kardashian testified that Chyna physically abused him – a testimony that family members including Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner and Khloe Kardashian took to the stand to defend, forming a united front.
"I had a gun pointed to my head several times by this woman," Kardashian told the court. "That's not real love. She tried to kill me."
After 11 days full of dramatic courtroom moments, the jury awarded Chyna no damages in the case.