Before becoming famous, Kim Kardashian was a close source to several tabloid magazines, selling stories about Paris Hilton to InTouch magazine.
Kim Kardashian’s story is so outrageous and down right ridiculous that she has become an icon in the entertainment industry.
But, before Ray J, Kanye, and Kris Humphries, ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star, Kim Kardashian was a personal assistant to the original sex tape star reality star Paris Hilton. Kim used this close connection with Paris Hilton to sell stories to tabloid magazines.
Several former [InTouch] employees confirmed that before Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with Ray J was leaked in 2007, Kim served as a source for In Touch stories, providing a steady stream of information on Paris Hilton. [Buzzfeed]
Kim Kardashian denies this, but according to reports, it’s not hard to beleive that Kim had a direct line to InTouch. Here’s how your favorite gossip stories get printed:
In Touch piqued that fascination by manufacturing elaborate, multipart, melodramatic narratives—the stuff of soap operas. Which made sense: The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Richard Spencer, came directly from Soap Opera Update. Several former employees remember Spencer laying out a four-act cover drama for what would happen between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the beginning of each month— a pregnancy, for example, followed by a breakup scare, a reconciliation, and then marriage rumors.
The beats of the drama may have been fictionalized, but it was easy to find sources— including rival publicists, other celebrities, former friends, estranged family—to support the claims. Still, according to Jo Piazza, who served as executive editor at In Touch from 2012 to 2014, “the majority of the stories were true.” “They were double-sourced,” she said. “It’s just that those sources were celebrities and publicists,” and then referred to as “a source close to the family” or “a friend.” It’s not that In Touch made things up; it’s that the publicists and family members and celebrities themselves did.
Apparently, after Kim Kardashian helped out InTouch so much in the past, the company helped her become a star. When ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashains’ premiered in 2007, Kim and her sisters began appearing on covers of several tabloids including InTouch, often giving “exclusive” interviews that nobody really wanted.
Source: Buzzfeed
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