A man filed court papers against Kim Kardashian Thursday alleging the billionaire businesswoman and social media star defamed him by mistakenly posting his photo as being that of a man awaiting execution at the time in Texas in 2024.
Ivan Cantu’s still unofficial Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit also alleges false light invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence. He seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
A Kardashian representative could not be immediately reached for comment.
According to the proposed lawsuit, plaintiff Cantu is a New York resident and is not awaiting execution. Kardashian’s mistaken posting of his photo on Instagram, where she has 350 million followers, and elsewhere in February 2024 has exposed him to “hatred, contempt and/or ridicule,” the court papers state.
Kardashian, 44, was trying to let the public know about the pending execution of a Texas inmate with the same name as the plaintiff and asked her followers to sign a petition requesting that the local district attorney “withdraw” the scheduled execution date. However, the inmate Cantu was executed the same month as Kardashian’s postings.