Kimberly Noel Kardashian

(born October 21, 1980)

is an American stylist, apparel retailer and television personality. She is best known for her adventurous social life, sex tape, and her appearances on reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Of Armenian, German and Irish descent, Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (née Houghton). Robert Kardashian, best known for being O. J. Simpson’s lawyer during his murder trial, died on September 30, 2003. Her mother, Kris, divorced Robert in 1989, and married former Olympian Bruce Jenner in 1991. While attending an all-girls Catholic high school in Los Angeles, Kardashian worked at her father's music marketing firm, Movie Tunes.

Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, and one brother, Robert. She also has stepbrothers Burton Jenner; Brandon Jenner; and reality TV star Brody Jenner; stepsister Casey Jenner; and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

In 2000 Kim married music producer Damon Thomas, their relationship ended in divorce in 2004. Currently she is dating NFL player Reggie Bush.

Sex tape
Kardashian was little known outside gossip circles until the launch of her pornographic home video she had made with then-boyfriend, rapper Ray J was announced. Vivid Entertainment was the distribution company against which Kardashian had pursued legal action for the ownership of the tape. Kardashian later dropped the suit and settled with Vivid Entertainment for five million dollars.