{"id":11253,"date":"2025-02-21T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:12:44","slug":"right-what-is-kim-kardashian-being-sued-for-and-who-is-the-innocent-man-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/02\/21\/right-what-is-kim-kardashian-being-sued-for-and-who-is-the-innocent-man-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, Kim K is being sued for defamation by a random man &#8211; here&#8217;s what he&#8217;s claiming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/02\/21\/heres-the-understandable-reason-kim-kardashian-almost-turned-down-north-wests-lion-king-role\/\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> is currently being sued by an innocent man who believes she wrongly named him as a death row inmate. She shared a photo of the man, who is now suing her, on her social media last year, calling him a &#8220;double murderer&#8221;. However, the New York resident and Morgan Stanley worker, Ivan Cantu, has come out to say he is innocent.<\/p>\n<h2>Kim Kardashian is currently being sued<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFod41WyWjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFod41WyWjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFod41WyWjT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kim Kardashian is currently being sued for defamation as she&#8217;s accused of wrongly describing a man as a death row inmate. She gave the man &#8220;nightmares&#8221; after posting a photo of him on Instagram, saying that he&#8217;s a Texas-based death row inmate currently behind bars for double murder, which was strictly not the case.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Los Angeles, in which Ivan A. Cantu claims Kardashian caused him severe emotional distress and public humiliation when she shared his name and photo out to her 850 million followers on February 26, 2024, without his consent. In the post, she identified Cantu as the same Ivan Cantu who was scheduled to die by lethal injection two days later.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate she was supposed to post was convicted of the gunshot murders of his cousin and his cousin\u2019s fianc\u00e9 in Dallas, to which Kim&#8217;s lawyer has since said was a &#8220;simple mistake&#8221;. They have the same name, and maintained his innocence for more than 20 years, up until his execution two days after it was originally planned to take place.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is the innocent man involved in the case?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11291\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11291 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3.png\" alt=\"Ivan A. Cantu Facebook\" width=\"996\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3.png 996w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Ivan A. Cantu Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ivan A. Cantu works at Morgan Stanley and lives in New York. \u201cKardashian\u2019s statement was false because Cantu was residing in the state of New York and was not in the state of Texas, had not committed a crime and was not about to be executed,\u201d the new lawsuit reads. \u201cKardashian\u2019s statement that Cantu was on death row in the state of Texas for committing murder was untrue and demonstrably false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a simple mistake of using the public photo of another man with the same name to promote Kim\u2019s longstanding commitment to the cause of criminal justice reform,\u201d Kardashian\u2019s lawyer Michael Rhodes said in a statement sent to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/kim-kardashian-wrong-photo-man-death-row-sued-defamation-1235274410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cThe image was taken down almost immediately once the error was discovered. We\u2019d prefer to solve this without litigation, but of course will defend Kim as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cantu has sent a nine-page complaint to the courts, saying the photo of him being shared caused \u201cemotional and mental anguish, psychological harm, embarrassment, anxiety, loss of sleep, nightmares, post-traumatic stress, headaches, need for medical care, need for emotional counseling and loss of reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates &#8211; like <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reality Shrine on Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim&#8217;s lawyer has responded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734182,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1755,1360,1710],"class_list":["post-11253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-the-kardashians","tag-trending"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/02\/21\/right-what-is-kim-kardashian-being-sued-for-and-who-is-the-innocent-man-involved\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Um, Kim K is being sued for defamation by a random man &#8211; 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