A judge Tuesday ordered the mother of Rob Kardashian’s toddler-aged daughter to turn over business documents that could show whether whether she lost money after the cancellation of the former couple’s reality show, “Rob & Chyna.”
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Randolph Hammock granted three motions by attorneys for the the Kardashian/Jenner families to compel Blac Chyna to produce the documents. He had urged them during a hearing on Jan. 16 to try and resolve their differences on their own, but Tuesday the Kardashian-Jenner lawyers pressed for an order.
Chyna’s real name is Angela White. Her claims against Rob Kardashian, as well as his mother Kris Jenner and sisters Kim and Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, include defamation and interference with prospective economic advantage. Chyna alleges the four women falsely claimed she physically abused Rob Kardashian while they were a couple.
In her lawsuit, Chyna alleges she suffered significant damages and that the scandal caused her reality show with her ex-fiance to be canceled by E! She alleges that the network would have granted a second season of the show but for false statements made against her, including alleged comments by the four female defendants to E! representatives in late 2016 and early 2017 that Chyna physically abused Rob Kardashian.
In their court papers in support of the three motions, the Kardashian-Jenner lawyers said the documents will show whether Chyna is being forthright when she says she has lost money in appearances and endorsements since the show’s cancellation. They asked for the company records for Blac Chyna Inc., 88 Fin Inc. and Lashed LLC for the years 2014-19.
Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, told the judge during the previous hearing that she had been trying to get the documents sought by the defense from an accountant in Michigan. She said Tuesday that she had received profit and losses statements for Lashed LLC and that her client is no longer seeking damages in connection with that company.
However, Kardashian-Jenner attorney Todd Eagan said he and his fellow lawyer, Melissa Lerner, still want to examine the Lashed documents to see if the company has lost or made money since the show ended.
In another action, Hammock, acting on a motion by Chyna’s attorneys, gave lawyers for E! Media Productions LLC the option of turning over the profit numbers of “Rob & Chynay,” or state with as much precision as possible where it ranked when compared with other money-making shows on the cable network that season.
The judge said that although some highly rated shows are canceled — he cited “Roseanne,” which was pulled by ABC in November 2018 after star Roseanne Barr’s questionable tweet — it could raise questions if a show like “Rob & Chyna” was a moneymaker for E!, but taken off the air anyway.
Chyna, 31, and Rob Kardashian, 32, began dating in January 2016 and had a daughter, Dream, that November. They broke up in the summer of 2017 and she sued Kardashian, his mother and three of his sisters in October of that year.
In July 2017, he used social media to post pictures of Chyna’s naked breasts, backside and genitals. He also accused her of sleeping with another man in “the same bed Chyna and I made our baby in.” He later took down some of the photos.
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