‘Harmless’ man ordered to pay Kim Kardashian $167,000 in authorized charges

Simply over two years in the past, Kim Kardashian was sued after sharing a picture of the fallacious Ivan Cantu.

The fact TV royal had meant to submit a photograph on social media of a Texas dying row inmate who she had tried to save lots of from execution.

Nonetheless, she by chance posted a picture of the ‘harmless’ New Yorker which she claimed was an sincere mistake and shortly took down.

However Cantu filed a defamation go well with and instructed the courtroom in February 2025 that Kardashian ‘revealed and disseminated false data’ about him that injured his fame.

It ended up being dismissed and the star’s group sought to get well her authorized charges from the person.

And in keeping with courtroom paperwork, Cantu has to pay the billionaire roughly $167,000 of the $186,000 she requested. He argued this may financially destroy him.

Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose was not persuaded on Monday (11 Could) and referred to as his argument in opposition to the charges ‘unavailing’.

However his legal professional will not be satisfied. Greg Sobo instructed the Daily Mail yesterday that this ruling ‘will not be according to California legislation and is for certain to be overturned’.

The lawyer continued: “We’re proud to face by Ivan Cantu, an harmless sufferer who was slandered.”

And Sobo appears to reckon that Monday’s ruling is ‘merely one step within the strategy of acquiring justice in opposition to the wealthy and highly effective’.

Arguing in opposition to the reimbursement demand, Cantu had cited the discrepancies within the pair’s internet worths however Decide Michael Small stated he was ‘granting Kardashian’s movement in the primary’.

And the choose addressed his arguments ‘that it could be unfair for the courtroom to make him pay Kardashian’s charges and prices as a result of… she is rich and he isn’t’. He due to this fact referred to as the arguments ‘unavailing’ on a authorized foundation.

The LADbible Group has contacted representatives for Kim Kardashian for remark.

The defamation go well with

The Ivan Cantu that Kardashian meant to submit a picture of was executed at Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville on 29 February 2024.

He had been convicted of killing his cousin James Mosqueada and his cousin’s fiancée Amy Kitchen in 2001. Nonetheless, he argued his innocence till the top, as he believed a rival drug seller killed his cousin in a dispute over money.

And Kardashian had joined the calls to save lots of Cantu; somebody she believed was ‘an harmless man’.

However on 26 February, she shared a public image of this different Ivan Cantu, and he claimed the error induced him ‘emotional and psychological anguish, psychological hurt, embarrassment, anxiousness, lack of sleep, nightmares, post-traumatic stress, complications, want for medical care, want for emotional counselling and lack of fame’.

A California superior courtroom choose dominated in favour of Kardashian who filed an anti-SLAPP movement (a movement to guard free speech in opposition to Strategic Lawsuits In opposition to Public Participation), successfully dismissing Cantu’s lawsuit.