As far as I remember they are connected to the lawyer of OJ Simpson (parent or something) and capitalized on the publicity by having a reality TV show about their family
OJ Simpson was a football player who was moderately famous for being a football player but was more famous for his 1994 trial for the alleged murder of his wife and her male friend. His lawyer, Robert Kardashian, managed to get him acquitted in one of the longest trials in American history (10 months), which was also highly publicized and politicized. His acquittal mostly centered around police misconduct and mishandling of evidence so it was a very polarizing case around the topic of racist cops planting evidence.
Years later, in 2003, Robert Kardashian's daughter Kim was dating R&B singer Ray J and they made a sex tape. In 2006, Kim K was beginning to be known as a friend/aide of Paris Hilton due to her father's recognizable name from a decade prior. In 2007 that tape was published by a porn company, who got their hands on it.... somehow?
Anyway that tape blew up in the public zeitgeist and then the E! Entertainment network capitalized on this by offering a trashy reality TV show starring Kim and her family, which they accepted. The rest is public TV history.
So yeah. Their dad was a lawyer in a high profile case in the 90's and everything else about them kind of stems from that root, and only mattered because everyone in America already knew the name Kardashian.
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These Kardashians get mentioned so often yet I still don't understand who they're supposed to be
They're famous for being famous.
That doesn't help
As far as I remember they are connected to the lawyer of OJ Simpson (parent or something) and capitalized on the publicity by having a reality TV show about their family
Oh so they have a reality TV show about themselves, kinda makes sense that they're famous then. And OJ Simpson is the guy with the sex island, right?
In case you're serious:
OJ Simpson was a football player who was moderately famous for being a football player but was more famous for his 1994 trial for the alleged murder of his wife and her male friend. His lawyer, Robert Kardashian, managed to get him acquitted in one of the longest trials in American history (10 months), which was also highly publicized and politicized. His acquittal mostly centered around police misconduct and mishandling of evidence so it was a very polarizing case around the topic of racist cops planting evidence.
Years later, in 2003, Robert Kardashian's daughter Kim was dating R&B singer Ray J and they made a sex tape. In 2006, Kim K was beginning to be known as a friend/aide of Paris Hilton due to her father's recognizable name from a decade prior. In 2007 that tape was published by a porn company, who got their hands on it.... somehow?
Anyway that tape blew up in the public zeitgeist and then the E! Entertainment network capitalized on this by offering a trashy reality TV show starring Kim and her family, which they accepted. The rest is public TV history.
So yeah. Their dad was a lawyer in a high profile case in the 90's and everything else about them kind of stems from that root, and only mattered because everyone in America already knew the name Kardashian.
I was being serious. Thank you, that's a lot of good context for terms that I have seen floating around. And also wtf.
Aight which one of you nicked it?
Now everyone will amputate their arms to fit the new beauty standard
"I lost 15 lbs without diet or exercise with this one weird trick"
Oh see that's more two weird tricks.
A lot of people are going to say A Farewell To The Arms.
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