Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Names and faces
■ Kim Kardashian went for classic and iconic at the Met Gala on Monday night, once again breaking the internet by donning one of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous looks. By tracking her whereabouts from paparazzi photos and scanning recent interviews, social media users guessed that Kardashian was going to wear the dress when she and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson, were recently spotted in Orlando, Fla. — the home of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. In 2016, the dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962 was sold at auction to Ripley’s Believe It or Not for nearly $5 million. The figure-hugging nude dress contains more than 2,500 hand-stitched crystals. Kardashian was the final celebrity to walk the Met Gala red carpet, joined by Davidson. She swapped her signature long black hair for a tight platinum blonde bun, emulating Monroe. The reality TV star and entrepreneur told Vogue that she had to lose 16 pounds to fit into the dress. All of Kardashian’s sisters also attended the gala, as did matriarch Kris Jenner.
■ A jury gave a sweeping win to the Kardashian family in former reality TV star Blac Chyna’s lawsuit against them. The Los Angeles jury Monday found that none of the members defamed Chyna, nor did any interfere with her contract by convincing the E! network to cancel her reality show, “Rob & Chyna.” The four Kardashian defendants — Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner — attended nearly the entire trial, but when the verdict was read all were in New York at the Met Gala, where this year’s theme was “Gilded Glamour.” Chyna was in court for the verdict. She had no visible reaction. After about 10 hours of deliberations, the jurors decided that the Kardashians often acted in bad faith, finding that they were not justified in telling the executives and producers of “Rob & Chyna” that Chyna abused their son and brother Rob Kardashian. But they found that it had no substantial effect on Chyna’s contract or the fate of the show, and she was awarded no damages. Executives from the E! network testified that “Rob & Chyna” ended because the relationship ended, not because of the defendants’ actions. Kardashian attorney Michael Rhodes said the family was “exuberant” when he called them with the news. Chyna’s attorney, Lynne Ciani, said that based on her reading of the verdict, “the jury found that Chyna had not physically abused Rob Kardashian,” and “the jury found that all four defendants had intentionally interfered with her contract with the E! Network.” “We will appeal on the remaining questions,” she said.