Kim Kardashian’s former gardeners & maintenance staffers are suing her for unfair working conditions, back pay & all kinds of stuff. [Dlisted]
Tessa Thompson is having a fun time in Australia. [Just Jared]
Please stop trying to make “cicadas are food” into a thing. [Pajiba]
Kristin Cavallari is trying to look like a bombshell. [Egotastic]
Victoria Beckham’s outfit is super-cute! [Go Fug Yourself]
Drake is really doing too much in LA. [LaineyGossip]
George Floyd’s family met with Joe Biden & Kamala Harris. [Buzzfeed]
Lil Nas X talks about his wardrobe malfunction on SNL. [Towleroad]
What in the world is Billy Idol up to? [Seriously OMG]
Holy crap, this story is bonkers. [Starcasm]
My favorite part of Mindy Kaling’s ensemble? Those glasses are bomb! [RCFA]
Did she get a new face?
Again?
I think turning 40 plus another divorce freaked her out and sent her scrambling to tweak her look.
She’s also now a woman of color as you can see. My God this family needs to stop with the f*cking fake tans.
Isn’t that an assistant actively spray tanning her as she goes through her day? Perfectly normal.
@ bettyrose
LOL I thought that was hairspray !
Lmao. She has no self awareness and has completely lost any sense of how she looks to others.
The blackfishing is especially strong here. ffs.
I don’t understand the lawsuit, if Kim hired a company to do work for her, and she paid her bill, but the company stiffed the workers, how is it Kim’s fault?
I’m not a Kardashian fan, but this seems strange.
Eh, always follow the money. Law Suits often go after the source with highest money, and make the connection to why that person/corporation should pay.
If that’s the case it seems like there would be a pretty clear paper trail showing her paying the staffing company in full. I assume they included her in suit because she has a lot of money and it would get attention.
That said I absolutely could see her stiffing people, not paying overtime, firing them for asking about it, etc.
Because she’s the boss. Isn’t the boss supposed to know how the money is being spent?
She wouldn’t be the boss in that scenario, she’d be the customer. If she hired a company to do landscaping, she isn’t paying each individual worker, she’s paying the landscaping company. If that is indeed the case.
Unless I’m misunderstanding and she actually used some kind of agency to hire individual landscapers? Like the way you’d hire a personal assistant or nanny?
If she wasn’t the employer, how did she have the ability to fire the worker “on the spot” who asked about OT and taxes?
Ultimately, she might have hired a payroll company or biz mgr/bookkeeper to pay the workers…but they must have permission to cut the checks.
@Lonnie tinks, Right. If her contract was with a landscaping company(and most of their services are done by contract), the landscaping company is responsible for paying their employees wages and deducting taxes from the paychecks with giving them copies of the paystubs. If they were being paid through a payroll service, the same thing holds true. If Kim was the client, it’s those companies that are responsible to handle the payroll properly. She really is only responsible if she was the direct employer and handled payroll in house or if checks came up NSF. If they were hired as independent contractors or as mentioned paid by cash, those are different scenarios with different responsibilities-both scenarios would be problematic for the individuals and possibly Kim. If cash is the case, how are the employees filing taxes without W-2’s or in need of something showing taxes were deducted? Like someone else said, it’s possible that her name is just being thrown in there because she has the big $. I’m a little aghast at myself for kind of defending Kim. There should be a paper trail.
Oh Billy Idol, my sixteen year old self has officially broken up with you.
I don’t have to read the article to know that I don’t want cicadas to be food for myself…yet.
I highly doubt that Kim pays bills herself. She must have a business/financial manager to do that for her. She most likely has no idea about who owes what to whom.
Business managers don’t have carte blanche to do what they want. Even if a client owes a tax payment, the client has to approve that payment, the biz mgr can’t just pay taxes without approval.
Many times people think you can hire those in the landscaping and service industries and pay them cash to go around labor laws.
Drake, the way he brought his son out on the stage was just odd. He walked out with him holding his hand. But then he never picked him up? And the 3 yr old clung to his leg and cried at the end while Drake gave his speech. It sounds like he treated him like an accessory, instead of an overwhelmed toddler. I have a feeling he doesn’t spend a lot of time with him. Hopefully the relationship will get better.
That’s a lot of speculation on your part. Drake actually spends a lot of time with his son, not wanting to repeat what his own father did to him. “In songs like 0 to 100 and Look What You’ve Done, the Canadian rapper has shown us the abandonment he went through with his father as a child.” We don’t know why he didn’t pick him up but even adults get terrified about being on stage.
That’s so good to know! Thanks for the information.
At one point he did try to pick him up…but it looked like he didn’t know the child’s weight and he was heavier than expected.
Drake has not been too involved apparently. His son’s mother is a former porn-star, so Drake refused to accept paternity for a long time. Claims the dna test broke in the mail, so that’s why it took so long (I’m not joking). He only acknowledged his son about 8 months after he was born, after another rapper included the info about the ‘secret son’ in a diss track. The boy lives full time with his mom. She moved to Toronto right before Covid hit, so maybe Drake has been able to see him more recently?
Why is she so brown?? Girl, please stop( insert eye roll).
Ok, is that guy toiling around her hair in the photo one of her maintenance workers?
😂😂😂 he clearly does a lot of heavy lifting.
Well, Van Jones thinks Kim will be an unbelievable lawyer, so maybe she can get some practice in with civil suits.
Well she failed the baby bar miserably. I wonder if she’ll try again. I mean a lot of people fail the first time but she said she “knew all the answers” after writing it…so I’m guessing she was very ill prepared to take the test the first time around.
She did fail? I didn’t read about that. Not surprising.
Yes there is a clip on YouTube promoting the next episode of their show. She tells her sisters she failed the baby bar. She got 474 and needed a 560 to pass.
The pass rate on the California baby bar was like 24% in 2019 and averaged btwn 16-20% in previous years so her failing is the norm.
Ok just googled the california baby bar. What is the point of this? Sounds like a racket to make money off of students (so much of becoming a lawyer is that: paying to take the lsat class, paying to take the lsat, paying to get my results early, paying to apply to law school, paying for three years of law school (I’m convinced it could be done in two), paying for bar review, paying for the bar…..). I mean, it seems like it is a way for people to tell whether they are actually learning, but shouldn’t taking the real bar be enough? What makes the difference?
I judge no one who studies and takes that test. Good for them. Not everyone passes the first time, not even JFK Jr. (failed twice). Not a fan but she works hard for this at least.
@manda I agree in theory, but she whined that she studied for six weeks 10 to 12 hours a day…I mean, I have lots of friends studying law and they would be incredibly offended that anyone would think that’s enough. And with a private tutor. Doesn’t mean she can’t fail and still have done a lot of work, and be rightfully proud of herself, but it’s insulting to regular people holding down a job, going to school, and studying on their own the same amount of hours weekly for YEARS. Tests *should* be equalizers.
Tesssssa, get it, girl!
The suit also says they were not allowed lunch breaks…
One thing I learned from the school of hard knocks is Always.Handle.Your.Money.Yourself.
I am not that well to do financially but after getting my a** kicked in a divorce, I know what and where every penny goes.
Also, had an employer go out of biz, without clearing payroll.
25+ years ago, and that crook still owes me $4K+ in wages. I of course, will never see it.
Wealthy people are often very laid back about paying.
Eat the rich!
Now, as for KK, isn’t her Momager supposed to know everything?
Kim looks like a wax figure with far too much tan and plastic surgery these days.
Will the Kardashians outlast cockroaches? Probably.
The Kardashians would be lost without their cell phones: no more selfies.
You want to know how she’s got some liable in this? The super strange release of the story last week about “Kim treats her nannies soooo much better than Kourtney and she has long-term employees and they love working for her blah blah blah…” I remember reading that and thinking, “What the random?” Not so random. Also, I work in HR and you can’t fire someone on the spot that isn’t your employee. Lots of rich people have their own landscapers and don’t use a company because they need full time staff (also maintenance people). You don’t abdicate responsibility for this stuff just because someone else is writing the check. It’s on your property in your name and in your service – and she knows that or the weird nanny narrative wouldn’t have happened.