Kim Kardashian’s representative introduces the defamation lawsuit after the photo

Kim Kardashian.
Noam Galai/NBCKim KardashianThe lawyers have spoken about the reality show stars named in the new libel and defamation lawsuits.
“It’s a simple mistake to use another public photo of someone with the same name to promote Kim’s long-term commitment to the cause of criminal justice reform,” Kardashian’s lawyer Michael Rhodes Tell US Weekly In a statement Thursday, February 20. “The image is deleted almost immediately after the error is found. We hope that this issue will be resolved without litigation, but of course we will defend Kim Jong Il as needed.”
News broke earlier Thursday Ivan A. Kantu A lawsuit was filed against Kardashian, 44, claiming that she posted photos of him in a previous social media message with a prisoner with the same name. (TMZ is the first to report the news.)
The plaintiff wrote via Facebook: “For all my friends and family, I was not executed, some idiots @kimkardashian replaced my pictures with my pictures instead of Ivan’Abner’Cantu. ”
Since Kardashian began learning to become a lawyer in 2020, Kardashian has become an advocate for criminal justice reform. Last year, she wrote Ivan Eberna Cantudeath sentence.

“I heard about Ivan Kantu’s case Sister Helen Prejean And really moved by it. In 2001, Ivan was convicted of killing his cousin James MosqueAnd his fiancé, Amy’s Kitchen,” she wrote via Facebook in January 2024. “Ivan has kept his innocence claiming that rival drug dealers framed him for the murder. The state’s star witnesses had false testimony and later withdrew their statements and rejected by the prosecutor, which would be extremely influential. ”
She added at the time: “Even jurors hope to help now and support Ivan’s appeal because they believe they did not hear all the evidence at the trial. In April 2023, when the defense made a statement about false testimony and new evidence On appeal, the judge canceled Ivan’s scheduled execution. But later that year, the execution was rescheduled and he will die on February 28, 2024.”
Kardashian further asked her social media followers to write to the local “faithfulness department” in Texas in a defense of the execution.
“The prosecutor’s office is beginning to recognize that there are many mistakes in the conviction,” Kardashian Summary of stars. “They encourage you to write letters to the integrity unit in a particular case, so I encourage everyone to write a case about Ivan Cantu. Now is the time to save Ivan Cantu!”