Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner sue Ray J for defamation over racketeering claims

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner are suing Ray J for defamation.

The reality stars have accused the 44-year-old singer - who was infamously Kardashian's partner in her 2007 sex tape - of waging a decades-long campaign against them and are taking action following his recent repeated claims that they are the subject of a federal criminal investigation into racketeering.

According to "TMZ", the pair's lawyer, Alex Spiro, alleged that Ray J is "unable to accept the end of his fleeting relationship with Ms. Kardashian over 20 years ago."

The lawsuit specifically mentions comments he made in TMZ's Tubi documentary called "United States Vs. Sean Combs", in which he said: "If you told me the Kardashians was being charged for racketeering, I might believe it."

Kardashian and Jenner alleged the comment in the documentary was "designed to plant the seed" and Ray J then escalated his claims during a livestream with Chrisean Rock on September 24, in which they claimed the "Sexy Can I" hitmaker had falsely claimed an investigation into the Kardashian family had been launched.

He claimed: "The feds is coming, there's nothing I can do about it. It's worse than Diddy."

Kardashian and Jenner' lawyer highlighted this is the first time the pair have ever sued for defamation.

Spiro said: “Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian have never brought a defamation claim before nor have they been distracted by noise -- but this false and serious allegation left no choice."

The lawsuit is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

In 2022, Ray J threatened to sue both Kardashian and Jenner for defamation after the 69-year-old matriarch took a lie detector test on "The Late Late Show With James Cordon" and denied she helped her daughter release the sex tape.

He raged in a lengthy Instagram posts: “YOU f***** with THE WRONG BLACK MAN krisjenner @kimkardashian.

“I DONT GIVE A F*** HOW OLD THIS S*** IS!! WHAT YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME IS ALMOST INHUMANE AND FOUL AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL — F*** THIS BEING JUST RACIST — THIS IS WRONG TO DO TO ANYBODY — YOU THINK YOU. CAN JUST F*** PEOPLE OVER AND GET AWAY WITH IT FOREVER!!!”

He also ranted about John Grogan, the administrator of Kris’ lie detector test: “John Grogan is a fake. He is not a polygraph examiner. He is quite accurately known as the polygraph parasite. ... THIS IS THE DUDE KRIS JENNER HAD TAKEN HER LIE DETECTOR TEST TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A LIAR! AND WHATS MORE SAD IS THE NETWORK ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN!!”

Ray J also alleged that Jenner and Kardashian “stole all that money” from his sister Brandy and their mother, Sonja Norwood, in an apparent reference to a 2008 lawsuit that Sonja, 71, filed against Kardashian and her siblings Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Rob Kardashian.

In her court filing, Sonja claimed the Kardashian family fraudulently charged more than $120,000 to an American Express card owned by the Norwoods, with the suit settled out of court in 2009.