Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna Settle Revenge Porn Lawsuit Before Trial Begins

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Putting it behind them. Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna settled their revenge porn lawsuit just before it was scheduled to head to trial, according to multiple reports.The Lashed Cosmetics founder, 34, and the Arthur George designer, 35, were still hammering out the details of an agreement last week, but the duo finally reached a settlement on Monday, June 20, just before jury selection for a trial was set to begin in Los Angeles. Michael Rhodes, a lawyer for Kardashian, confirmed the news to People.Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, previously said that her client was happy the case would be proceeding to trial after the former couple failed to agree on a settlement.“Chyna is very pleased that the trial judge denied Rob’s motion to ‘enforce’ a settlement that never existed,” the attorney told Us Weekly in a statement on Friday, June 17. “Without a settlement, Chyna will prove her case to a Los Angeles jury on June 20 that Rob posted devastating revenge porn of her to millions of his Instagram followers without her consent.”Ciani continued: “Rob Kardashian has never taken responsibility for his heinous and vengeful act of posting revenge porn against Chyna in July 2017.

He was never criminally prosecuted. It is finally time for Rob to be held accountable in a court of law.”A lawyer for the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum did not respond to a request for comment.Chyna originally filed her lawsuit against her ex-fiancé in October 2017 after the pair’s split three months prior.

At the time, the Real Blac Chyna alum accused Kardashian of using his social media to leak sexually explicit images of her.In court documents obtained by Us, the Washington, D.C.