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Reality star Blac Chyna Thursday won her battle to take her ex-fiance, Rob Kardashian, to a court trial in her lawsuit accusing him of posting ‘revenge porn’ naked photos of her online after they split up.
Rob, 35 – her co-star in the reality show Rob and Chyna and father of her five year-old daughter, Dream – has insisted that the two reached a settlement agreement in May in which she dropped her lawsuit against him.
But Chyna, 34, denied signing such an agreement and wants her day in court to seek cash damages from Rob, who she dated between 2016 and 2017.
He responded by sending his lawyers to court in Los Angeles to file a motion asking a judge to enforce the ‘settlement’, claiming Chyna was trying to back out of the deal.
Thursday LA Superior Court Judge Gregory Alarcon sided with Chyna and ruled that no legal agreement was reached between the former couple.
He denied Rob’s motion to enforce the settlement agreement his lawyers said they had.
So the revenge porn trial will go ahead, starting this Monday, June 20 – unless Rob and Chyna come to a new financial agreement over the weekend.
Blac Chyna, pictured at a celebrity boxing match in Florida on June 11, has won the right to bring her ex Rob Kardashian to trial over claims he distributed revenge porn nude photos of her online
Chyna is pictured with Rob Kardashian before their split. They dated between 2016 and 2017 and are parents to a daughter called Dream
In the settlement Rob claimed he and Chyna brokered, she supposedly agreed to drop the revenge porn lawsuit if he got her removed from another unrelated lawsuit brought against both of them by her former friend, Pilot Jones, who accused them of falsely outing him as gay.
His attorney, Todd Eagan, argued Thursday that the settlement Chyna now says she didn’t sign, was actually agreed on May 23 via email by her attorney Lynne Ciani.
And, he added, Rob lived up to his side of the bargain by getting Chyna removed from the Jones lawsuit.
‘We performed the request…..And we got the dismissal (of the Jones case), signed by Mr. Jones.’
But now, he said, Ciani is trying to renege on the agreement and push for the revenge porn trial anyway.
’She is trying to re-trade after we performed our part of the agreement,’ said Eagan. ‘It’s a classic bait and switch with them saying now, “We want hundreds and thousands of dollars.”’
Ciani called Eagan’s motion to enforce the settlement he claimed Rob had, ‘absurd’ and ‘preposterous.’
‘There is no binding agreement to enforce,’ she told the court Thursday. ’They are trying to enforce an unenforceable agreement.’
She said that Chyna never agreed to give up her claim to financial damages for the revenge porn lawsuit if the Jones case was dismissed.
Chyna is pictured outside an LA court in April, shortly before losing a $150m defamation suit against the Kardashians
‘We have a legal right to go to trial.’
Ciani added that the revenge porn case comes down to money.
‘What X amount of dollars would get this settled,’ she said. ‘If we came up with an amount to agree on, we would not be here today.’
Eagan proposed sending the case to a settlement judge for a ‘negotiated resolution.’
‘The parties do want to settle this case,’ he said. ‘Mr. Kardashian thought he had an agreement.
‘He doesn’t want his daughter in five or 10 years to read about a fight between her parents involving sexually explicit images.’
Ciani countered, saying that Chyna ‘wants her daughter to know that it is not OK to have nude photos posted against your will.
‘Revenge porn is serious – it’s a crime.’
Thursday’s ruling is a major victory for Chyna who is still smarting over her loss to the Kardashian women in April when the jury in her $108 million defamation lawsuit against the billionaire family awarded her zero in damages.
It’s welcome news for her, hot on the heels of another blow dealt to the former stripper earlier this week when the Kardashians stuck her with a $391,000 bill for expenses they ran up during her losing trial. She’s fighting their demand for the money.
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