{"id":396972,"date":"2026-04-13T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:10","slug":"billionaire-kim-kardashian-called-out-for-145k-demand-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396972\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Kim Kardashian Called Out for $145K Demand in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Kardashian
\n Man Mistakenly ID’ed as Death Row Murderer …
\n Fighting $145K Demand for Attorney’s Fees<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n April 13, 2026
\n 11:12 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n April 13, 2026
\n 12:13 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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The man who lost his lawsuit against Kim Kardashian<\/a> — after he said her misidentification caused him emotional distress — is begging a judge not to force him to pay the billionaire\u2019s legal bills … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Ivan Cantu — who was shut down in his battle<\/a> with Kim over an Instagram post she made — is fighting her request that he pay the legal fees she racked up fighting him in court.<\/p>\n

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Ivan sued Kim after she made a post on social media about a man with the same name who was convicted of murder and was sitting on death row. Kardashian was pushing for the man’s execution to be put on pause.<\/p>\n

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In his lawsuit, Ivan said Kim used his photo when talking about the death row inmate and claimed he had suffered damages. Her lawyer said it was a simple mistake and that she immediately deleted it after learning it was the wrong photo.<\/p>\n

A federal judge sided with Kim and dismissed the case. Kim then asked the court for $145K in legal fees and costs.<\/p>\n

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In his new motion, Ivan claimed Kim was \u201cborn and raised in great wealth and luxury,\u201d saying she is reportedly worth approximately $1.9 billion and \u201cenjoys substantial income and wealth through sponsors of her social media posts due to a large number of followers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says \u201cWhile some of her posts may concern social causes, most of her posts published sponsored products and services and celebrity news.” Ivan says Kim was the one who made the mistake, not him.<\/p>\n

He says he is a caring father of two daughters who doesn\u2019t have the funds to pay Kim\u2019s six-figure legal bill.<\/p>\n

Ivan says Kim will easily survive without the $145K due to her wealth … but claims forcing him to pay the fees would financially ruin him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian Man Mistakenly ID’ed as Death Row Murderer … Fighting $145K Demand for Attorney’s Fees Published April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,109697,25333,28779],"class_list":{"0":"post-396972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kim-k","13":"tag-kim-kardashian","14":"tag-kk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}