*Kris Jenner alludes to being with Nicole when she bought O.J. gloves
*Kim almost got kicked out of camp for kissing a boy once
You probably think you know everything there is to know about Kim Kardashian and her siblings. But there is a little-known prequel — the twisted story of her parents Robert and Kris’ tempestuous marriage, which was marked by rampant philandering and scandal. Author Jerry Oppenheimer’s book “The Kardashians: An American Drama”
(St. Martin’s Press, out Sept. 19) reveals patriarch Robert’s
infatuation with Elvis Presley’s ex-wife Priscilla, Kris’ repeated
infidelity and Robert’s confession to his pastor that Khloé Kardashian wasn’t his biological daughter.
Here, the highlights: Forever immortalized as the stand-by-his-man supporter of pal O.J. Simpson,
Robert Kardashian rose to notoriety when he served as a legal
consultant on the “dream team” that won the athlete a not-guilty verdict
in his infamous 1995 murder trial. Robert, a born-again Christian of
Armenian descent, was born in 1944 to a wealthy Los Angeles family; he
would later distance himself from the clan’s corrupt meatpacking empire.
Despite standing a mere 5-foot-8 and being stricken with a thick white
hairline streak in his otherwise jet-black mane, he was considered one
of Beverly Hills’ most eligible bachelors in the 1970s.
‘[Robert] loved Khloé very much, but he said it in a way that implied that “She’s not my blood daughter.”’ - Robert's pastor, Kenn Gulliksen
Born in 1955, Kristen “Kris” Houghton came from “redneck” roots and
was raised in San Diego by her tough-as-nails maternal grandmother after
her alcoholic father left when she was 7. By 12th grade, Kris wasn’t
dreaming about prom or college, but looking for a man — a rich one. High
school pal Joan Zimmerman thought Kris’ mom, Mary Jo, was “kind of
pimping her out” when the 17-year-old started a relationship with golf
pro Cesar Sanudo, who was more than 10 years her senior. That ended when
Kris met Robert — who thought the teenager looked like a young Natalie
Wood, despite a necklace that read “OH, S – – T” — at a horse-racing
track and cheated on her boyfriend with him.
As Jack Spradlin, a friend of Sanudo’s, said: “[Kris] saw a far better financial opportunity with Kardashian than with Cesar.”
Still, Robert thought Kris was too young for things to be serious, and soon dumped her for Priscilla Presley. He may have been besotted with the famous ex-wife of Elvis, but she only went out with Robert because “she had no one else to go out with,” according to a cousin. Kardashian and Priscilla Presley in 1976WireImageA worldly and “kinky” Presley groomed Robert, telling him how to
dress and what kind of car to drive. The relationship, however, would
never escape the specter of her famous ex. Robert “complained to a
friend that while he was making love to Priscilla, she would get
incoherent phone calls from [her ex-husband] Elvis ‘and she would put
the receiver on the pillow between them and let him listen,’ ”
Oppenheimer writes.
Robert aimed to turn Priscilla into “the perfect Armenian housewife.” “Priscilla once tried to make dinner for Robert because he kept
asking her,” said Joni Migdal, his friend since childhood. “She cooked
asparagus, and she made this, and she made that . . . She went out of
her way to make it perfect for him, and he hated it.”
Priscilla was insulted. Soon, she told Robert: “I’m not going to marry anyone until Elvis dies.” He wasn’t lonely for long. A heartsick Kris, by then an American
Airlines flight attendant, had been destroyed by Robert’s relationship
with glam Priscilla and readily took him back, moving into his Beverly
Hills manse right away. He was a lawyer and entrepreneur who made a
killing with one of his investments, driving both a Rolls-Royce and a
Mercedes; she was scraping by and had nothing to her name. Still, her
fancy beau refused to give her money for anything, including much-needed
new tires for her old Mazda.
“She needs to learn the value of a dollar,” Robert told Migdal.
Ironically, this would backfire on Robert after he married Kris in 1978.
Once they shared bank accounts, she would rebel against his prior
constraints by becoming monstrously extravagant. When she dropped three
grand on a single belt, her husband was apoplectic: “Can you f – – king
believe that? Who needs a belt for $3,000?” Kris and Robert on their wedding dayWhere he failed to mold Priscilla into the perfect submissive
housewife, Robert was determined to succeed with young Kris. Friends
told Oppenheimer about how he was “totally turned on” by the 1975 movie
“The Stepford Wives.”
“[It] was the model for Robert’s marriage to Kris,” said Migdal.
According to another friend, “He had a fantasy about being able to
dominate women.” As a way of grooming his high school-educated bride,
Robert gave her self-help audiotapes to teach her how to throw a party
and decorate for the holidays.
“Kris would say, ‘Oh God, I have to finish these tapes before the
week is out because we’re going to talk about them,’ ” recalled friend
Larry Kraines. Robert, who had adorned his car with a fish insignia to show his
born-again status, kept copies of the Bible on his nightstand, on his
desk and on his person at all times. While Kris attended church with her husband, Robert’s pastor, Kenn
Gulliksen, harbored doubts about her sincerity: “I just sensed that Kris
saw in Bob a kind of gold mine. Robert was a very generous man, and
that was . . . good for Kris.”
After daughters Kourtney and Kim
were born (in 1979 and 1980, respectively), the family moved into a
7,000-square-foot estate in Beverly Hills’ most “prestigious” section,
complete with tennis courts and a duck-shaped swimming pool. Kris’
audiotape lessons had paid off, and the home became “party central.”
They often hung out with Robert’s friend O.J. Simpson. Sometimes,
Simpson would have Kris call a very young girl — “possibly still in high
school” — whom he was seeing, in case her parents answered. Then she
would hand him the phone.
It seemed the family was flourishing. Robert had sold one of his
businesses, the trade publication Radio & Records, “for a bundle.”
But with the 1984 arrival of their third child, Khloé, the couple couldn’t ignore an elephant in the room: They hadn’t had sex during the time she had to have been conceived.
Gulliksen recalled that “it was my strong impression from him that
[Robert] loved Khloé very much, but he said it in a way that implied
that ‘She’s not my blood daughter.’ ”
He was unwilling to take a DNA test to confirm it, and told Migdal
that “whoever her father is . . . she is my child.” Years later, his two
subsequent wives — Jan Ashley and Ellen Pierson — attested that Robert
claimed that Khloé wasn’t his biological daughter.
Soon, Kris’ affairs would be more out in the open. Despite all the
blessings — and bling — of a charmed Beverly Hills life, she became
“bored and rebellious.” After getting a new pair of breasts, she
reportedly decided she wanted freedom.
“Kris would tell Robert, ‘I need to go out. I need to have fun,’ ”
Migdal said. “[She] was coming home at 2 and 3 in the morning drunk, and
she would tell Robert, ‘I have four kids and I have not lived life.’ ”
(Son Rob was born in 1987.)
Kris began seeing a soccer player, Todd Waterman, introducing him as
her boyfriend at parties and paying his bills with Robert’s money.
Waterman recalled that a young Khloé would go with them on dates: “She’d
be in the back seat of the car.” Once, after Kris told her husband that
Waterman was her tennis instructor, the two played on the Kardashian
court while Robert watched. But soon enough, Robert caught Waterman and Kris “three different
times,” she said, including at the other man’s apartment and on a
restaurant date. Upon finding them together in Waterman’s car one time,
Robert jumped out of his Mercedes with a golf club in hand. “He took a
swing and whacked the back of my car,” said Waterman. Kris told him to
“keep driving — [Robert] might have a gun in the car.”
Another time, as Simpson stood by, Robert phoned Waterman and yelled:
“You just f – – ked Snow White! Do you know what you’ve done to this
entire universe, you asshole? Now you . . have to deal with me.”
The Kardashians finally divorced in 1991. Months later, Kris married Olympian Bruce Jenner, her “best lover.” Jenner — who decades later would in transition to being a woman named Caitlyn
— had already wedded twice before. After his first wife, Chrystie
Crownover, left him, he stayed for a while at the Playboy Mansion.
“Bruce became like one of the Bunnies,” said a longtime mansion
regular. “One night he’s boogieing in a tux with the girls at a dress-up
party, and the next night he’d be like one of the girls and all dressed
up — makeup, hosiery, high heels, the whole nine yards. I thought he
was just being funny, like when Milton Berle used to come on TV in
drag.” He may have been one of the most famous athletes of the 1970s, but by
the early ’90s Jenner “had little money . . . and was living in a dumpy
little house.” When he moved in with Kris, Jenner brought along his
parents. “Simply put,” Oppenheimer writes, “[Kris] was ‘very pissed off,’ according to friends.” She would, apparently, get over it, however, with the two going on to have daughters Kendall (in 1995) and Kylie (in 1997) and star together in the reality TV series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Alvin Michelson, Robert Kardashian and O.J. SimpsonRobert, meanwhile, was about to become a household name. After bosom
buddy Simpson was arrested in 1994 for the murders of his ex-wife,
Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman, Robert chose to steadfastly support
him, showing up to court nearly every day as a member of the athlete’s
legal “dream team.” He wrote a letter to Kris and his kids in 1995, once
the trial was in full swing: “I truly believe in O.J.’s innocence, and
unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him . . . Please
be understanding.”
Kris, who had been one of Nicole’s closest friends, was “furious”
with her ex’s defense of O.J. (Years later, Kourtney would get into the
University of Arizona with an essay titled “My Parents Were on Opposite
Sides of the O.J. Simpson Trial.”)
Elsewhere in Robert’s life, reactions were mixed. Some friends and
colleagues deserted him. “No one ever turned their back on someone like
they did on Robert over the O.J. thing,” recalled Migdal. People would
spit on him while he was in his convertible.
On the other hand, he often got “celebrity treatment” because of the
public fascination with the televised trial, snagging the best tables at
Beverly Hills restaurants. Roger Moore sought him out to chat. Actor
Rod Steiger sent wine to his table. Robert hoped that Al Pacino or Robert De Niro would play him in a future O.J. movie. (Little did he know he would instead end up with David “Ross from ‘Friends’ ” Schwimmer.)
The fallout from the trial took a toll on the entire Kardashian
family. But the kids were moving on with their lives — and the apples
didn’t fall far from the tree. By 2000, Kim was a bride at age 19. Robert was “upset” when Kim wed her first husband, Damon Thomas, who
is African-American. According to an Oppenheimer source, Robert said: “I
know these black guys, and I know they love white p—y. O.J. always
brags about how much he and those guys get. The problem is my kids are
liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself
because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.”
In 2003, Robert was diagnosed with esophageal cancer; when he died
some eight weeks later, he reportedly weighed 80 pounds. Before he
passed, Priscilla Presley called to tell him she loved him. “It brought tears to his eyes,” Oppenheimer writes. “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”E!Years later, after Robert’s kids became world-famous, his widow Ellen
Pierson — who was said to have frozen out his closest friends — sold
off excerpts of what was allegedly his diary, in which he wrote about
Kris and Waterman’s sleeping together in his bed and leaving their kids
unattended while she “screwed all night.” It detailed Kris’ allegedly
abusive nature, describing her as pulling Kourtney’s hair and twisting
her arms, also claiming that “scared and nervous” Kim had also been
beaten by their mother.
Kris sued Pierson in 2013 on the basis of copyright infringement,
claiming that Robert’s kids owned the copyrights for his diaries.
Pierson filed legal papers for defamation, emotional distress and civil
conspiracy to defame, claiming the Kardashians only filed their lawsuit
for use as a plot point for their TV show. The copyright claim was settled in 2014, when Pierson returned the diaries to the Kardashians, who also collected $84,000. Robert’s friend Kraines insists the late man would be as “proud as
punch” of his girls today. “Would Robert have liked Kim’s sex tape, and
all that horses – – t? Probably not. But would he have liked the fact
that they have made a tremendous amount of money? Definitely!” As for Kris, who divorced Jenner in 2015, sources say she wants to follow in the footsteps of another reality TV star.
The mom of six has told people she wants to run for political office —
on a platform of advocacy for single moms — saying she and Donald Trump
have the same kind of DNA. “If Mr. Weird Hair can do it, so can I,”
she’s reportedly said.According to a “credible source”: “She has so much confidence that
talking about the presidency one day isn’t out of the question for her.”
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