Kim Kardashian reportedly attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding while fighting back at the ongoing Ivan Cantu lawsuit. Amid the festivities at the Venetian ceremony last month, the reality star was going through an “emotional distress” legal battle. The suit stemmed from Kardashian posting Cantu’s photo on social media while advocating for another inmate on death row, whose name also happened to be Ivan Cantu. The plaintiff sued her for causing “emotional distress” and “invasion of privacy,” among other things.
Kim Kardashian and her legal team reportedly responded to Ivan Cantu’s lawsuit in Venice
Kim Kardashian and her legal team were responding to Ivan Cantu’s lawsuit while in Venice for Jeff Bezos’ wedding. Us Weekly exclusively reported that the suit stemmed from an accidental 2024 social media posting while the reality star was trying to help a death row inmate in Texas named Ivan Cantu. Kardashian mistakenly shared a photo of another Ivan Cantu, a project manager from New York, in her stories, two days before the execution. The inmate was executed on February 28, 2024.
USA Today reported that Cantu then sued Kardashian, accusing her of intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, libel, slander, and false light. The final allegation accuses her of falsely using his photo, which could be “highly offensive to a reasonable person.” The publication obtained official court documents and papers that the SKIMS founder signed on June 26 while in Italy for the grand wedding. She, along with her sisters Kylie, Kendall, and Khloe, and their mom, Kris, were among the celebrity guests.
Kim Kardashian’s lawyer stated that they discovered their mistakes within hours of posting Ivan Cantu’s photo, triggering the lawsuit. The documents revealed that they “immediately deleted” the story, and she promptly issued “a public apology to [Ivan] that same.” Her attorney further argued that the suit was an “attempt to cash in on a mistake” Kardashian made while exercising her “constitutional rights of free speech and petition.”
In her declaration, the fashion mogul announced that the post was unintentional and a “mistake.” She highlighted her work advocating for criminal justice reform and her desire to speak for those who may not have a voice. Kardashian even disclosed learning about the inmate Ivan Cantu’s case in early 2024 and how his “steadfast claim of innocence” moved her.
This story originally appeared on Realitytea
