{"id":687415,"date":"2026-05-22T23:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:53:12","slug":"mackenzie-shirilla-wanted-kim-kardashian-to-be-her-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687415\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Shirilla Wanted Kim Kardashian to Be Her Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mackenzie Shirilla
\n I Want Kim Kardashian …
\n To Defend Me!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n May 22, 2026
\n 2:32 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Mackenzie Shirilla<\/a> was shooting for the stars from behind bars … because in an undated jail call, she says she wants Kim Kardashian<\/a> to be her lawyer.<\/p>\n

The call — obtained by PEOPLE<\/a> and recorded while Mackenzie was held at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center in Ohio — features the now-21-year-old discussing the growing media attention surrounding her case.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to an unidentified person, Mackenzie wonders if Kim K may have seen the coverage … before admitting, “I’m real nervous and I want Kim Kardashian to be my lawyer.”<\/p>\n

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The person on the other end seems to think the publicity could help get Kim’s attention … saying maybe all the headlines surrounding the case would put Mackenzie on Kim’s radar.<\/p>\n

The prison ‘Mean Girl<\/a>‘ also tried appealing to Kim through her wallet … joking, “Tell her I buy all her SKIMS and I only wear SKIMS.”<\/p>\n

As you know … Kim has spent years involved in criminal justice reform efforts and advocating<\/a> for inmates she believes were wrongfully convicted or deserving of sentence reconsideration … though she has not officially passed<\/a> the California bar exam.<\/p>\n

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Mackenzie was ultimately convicted in 2023 of murder, aggravated vehicular homicide, and other charges tied to the 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend, Dominic Russo<\/a>, and friend Davion Flanagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors argued she intentionally drove her car into a brick wall at nearly 100 MPH — following an alleged toxic<\/a> relationship with Russo … and the judge later described her as “hell on wheels.”<\/p>\n

Interest in the case recently exploded again after Netflix released “The Crash” earlier this month … featuring interviews with Mackenzie, her family, and the victims’ loved ones.<\/p>\n

In the documentary, Mackenzie insists the crash was not intentional and says she has “excessive amounts of remorse” for the victims and their families.<\/p>\n

She’ll become eligible for parole in 2037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Shirilla I Want Kim Kardashian … To Defend Me!!! Published May 22, 2026 2:32 PM PDT Mackenzie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,29389,4207,29390],"class_list":["post-687415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kim-k","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-kk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}