''Kim Kardashian, Superstar'' (also known simply as ''Kim K Superstar'') is a 2007

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featuring American television personality

Kim Kardashian Kimberly Noel Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) 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 celebrity sex tape ...

and singer-actor

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. It depicts the pair having sexual intercourse in October 2003 while on vacation in

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, Mexico. The film brought in more than US$1.4 million in its first six weeks.

Background

The film features

and

in October 2003, in a luxury Esperanza resort in

, Mexico, for Kardashian's 23rd birthday. Ray J filmed much of the holiday with a handheld camcorder, capturing him and Kardashian "goofing around" and also having oral sex and sexual intercourse. Kardashian was relatively unknown before the tape's release. She was known mainly as the daughter of Robert Kardashian, who was

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's defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial. She was also known as a friend and personal stylist for

Paris Hilton Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American media personality, businesswoman, and socialite. Hilton was born in New York City and raised there partially; shuttling between Los Angeles and New York City; she is a great-grandda ...

after she appeared in three episodes of Hilton's show ''

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'' in 2006. She met Ray J in 2002 while working as a personal stylist to his sister,

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. In 2013, Ray J released a song titled, " I Hit It First", which features a pixelated image of Kardashian for the cover art and heavily references his relationship with Kardashian. In December 2018, Kardashian claimed she had been on the drug ecstasy (MDMA) while the tape was recorded.

Release

The film was released on March 21, 2007, by Vivid Entertainment. According to a

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they issued, they purchased the tape from a "third party" for $1 million. In February 2007, before its release, Kardashian sued Vivid Entertainment for invasion of privacy and for the profits from and ownership of the tape. In April 2016, Ian Halperin alleged in his book ''Kardashian Dynasty'' that Kardashian and her mother,

Kris Jenner Kristen Mary Jenner ( Houghton , formerly Kardashian; born November 5, 1955) is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring in the reality television series ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' (2007� ...

, deliberately leaked the sex tape to Vivid Entertainment. According to Halperin, "A mutual friend of Kim and Paris Hilton had advised her that if she wanted to achieve fame, a sex tape would be the way to go … Kim had discussed the idea of producing a tape with her family beforehand … It was Kris who engineered the deal behind the scenes (with Vivid Entertainment) and was responsible for the tape seeing the light of day". On the release of ''Kardashian Dynasty'', a representative for Kardashian and Jenner denied all of Halperin's assertions.

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Release

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