Kim Kardashian Wedding A Possible Publicity Stunt: Ex-Publicist

Immediately following her lightning-speed marriage and divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries, fans of Kim Kardashian -- perhaps feeling duped by the "fairytale" wedding -- began to lash out against the star. Now, Kardashian's ex-publicist is speaking his mind, too -- and calling the reality TV star's bluff.

"She knew weeks before getting married she didn't want to do it," said Kardashian's former publicist, Jonathan Jaxson, on New York's "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show" Wednesday. "She's never gotten over [her ex Reggie Bush]."

Jaxson says he frequently staged publicity stunts for Kardashian while working for her from 2007 to 2009. "I staged several of the moments that the world has seen of her, such as a ring that we alleged was from Reggie Bush."

In fact, Jaxson claims that the ring Kris Humphries proposed to her with is the same ring as the one that was used in that allegedly fake proposal.

Jaxson says that Kardashian definitely loved Humphries. But, contrary to Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner's claims, he says "there's no way that wedding cost them a dime." Jaxson also claims that the couple made money off their wedding: "They had a lot of contracts, they had endorsements. To say they weren't paid is a lot of foolish garbage." Despite hesitations about the marriage that Kardashian says she had in the weeks before her wedding, Jaxson alleges that she had to go through with the union because of her endorsement deals.

While Kardashian has not responded specifically to Jaxson's claims, she has adamantly denied allegations that her 72-day marriage was a sham: "Anyone that would get married for a TV show, it's just, you know, ridiculous," she says. "It's just sad that I even have to defend that."

Comments

[learnsomething]

01:34 PM on 11/19/2011

She is a s*ut. Has bedded a long sting of men. Men just use her to get a freebie in the sack.

[blandinbasement]

05:54 PM on 11/18/2011

'like the idea that I would have to defend my pathetic 72-day 'commitment' is just sad'

[ZMP]

10:57 PM on 11/14/2011

The word of someone who made a porno and then became a 'pseudo-celeb' is not the word of someone to trust, no?

[yank42ees]

01:52 PM on 11/14/2011

BAN all the Kardashian's!!!
Did you see ...Kim is so sad...she is hosting the New Year's Eve bash in Vegas!!

[NunuDudu]

11:11 AM on 11/14/2011

Don't get mad at Kim for pulling a stunt. Get mad at yourselves for being so obsessed with the Kardashians.

[nicko68]

10:29 AM on 11/14/2011

Kris Humphries was wrong flavor.

[cowboys0822]

02:15 PM on 11/14/2011

she only dates black guys and he was half

[nicko68]

04:51 PM on 11/14/2011

apparently that wasn't enough

[prettyfnliberal]

09:36 AM on 11/14/2011

i can't wait till her and her family's 15min are up just like paris hilton.

[Southernboy0628]

08:35 PM on 11/12/2011

I think that Kim saying that they didn't get paid anything during the wedding is garbage. The Kard's do not walk out of their house without getting paid some how and when are the boring somebody takes another city going to stop. Stay home and finally get out of the papers so when Bruce's daughter's hit the scene fulltime Kim's wedding scandals may be over, she may be able to BEG Reggie Bush to take her back and everybody will be happy.

[sillyblueness]

02:09 PM on 11/12/2011

At this point everything she does is a publicity stunt.

[DarkTruths]

02:30 PM on 11/14/2011

Rhymes with "stunt", anyway.

[ZMP]

10:58 PM on 11/14/2011

stunt-bore

[collectsrocks]

12:53 PM on 11/12/2011

I still contend Kim picked out the ring and paid for it for Kris to give to her, hence the ring being mentioned in the pre-nup. Heck, she might have picked it out when she was a little girl dreaming of her "fairy tale wedding" and it was held in a vault til she snagged herself a man to go with it.

[gwj2000]

11:08 AM on 11/12/2011

Kim's wedding a sham?

No way, I mean, who would believe she would do such a thing simply for attention?

She was a woman in love who thinks she wasn't good enough for such a great guy.

[TheFlowerChild]

02:39 AM on 11/12/2011

Well the Kardashians certainly didn't invent tactical publicity. All celebrities stage the publicity that they want and when something like Jonathan Jaxson comes up "unplanned" they hire someone to do "damage control". I think Kris Jenner is the mastermind behind pimping her daughters to multi-million dollar success and I believe Jaxson when he says that wedding didn't cost them a dime in the end. I really do think Kim Kardashian only married him long enough to get all of her money from all of the endorsements from the wedding and the E! Wedding Special. Now how much Kris Humphries knew is gray. He most likely didn't he was just meat. Now the ring thing is tacky; using the same ring from the engagement to Reggie Bush? I think the Kardashians pulled one to many wee publicity stunts. We'll be watching the Finale live.

[BG VA]

07:55 PM on 11/11/2011

Huff Post, I get that you report entertainment as well as politics, and that's all good. But how many times can this same story get retold? This family's looking for ways to keep themselves relevant and are milking this joke of a marriage for all its worth.

[WasteNJ]

02:41 PM on 11/11/2011

"Anyone that would get married for a TV show, it's just, you know, ridiculous," she says"

Now you're catching on honey. That's why all your fans hate you now.

[Pattycake1]

03:14 PM on 11/12/2011

YES! That is why all of Kim's fans hate her now. Let me just say that I won't spend anytime watching anything she is on! BOYCOTT!

[WasteNJ]

08:39 AM on 11/14/2011

Good for you! Reclaim those brain cells. We'll see how the numbers are for the new season, I'm thinking there may not be another.

[Dare To Dream]

03:35 AM on 11/22/2011

BOYCOTT

Yea baby.

[LauraBethT]

12:00 PM on 11/11/2011

What is with this autoplay bull?

[WasteNJ]

02:41 PM on 11/11/2011

Yeah I hate it too, especially when they put two or three of them on one page all playing at the same time.