Kim & ray j sex tape was early cash cow
 

Kim Kardashian and Ray J's sex tape was a success right out of the gate, making more than a million bucks in the first 6 weeks after its release ... and according to an email sent to them, they were both making serious bank.

We've obtained an email from Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch dated May 1, 2007, in which he informs Kim the tape made $1,424,636.63 in revenue, including the majority, $1,255,578.50, coming from DVD sales.

It's interesting ... the tape was released on March 14, 2007. Kim filed a lawsuit on February 21, 2007, against Vivid, claiming she didn't authorize the release of the tape. That case was dismissed -- presumably, it was settled -- April 27, 2007. Just 4 days later, Kim got the email from Vivid on sales numbers.

Ray J said over the weekend, Kim actually signed on from the get-go, and even produced his contract with a list of the sex tapes ... saying Kim wrote the inventory list. He also produced a letter from her and says it's the exact same handwriting.

Hirsch has openly talked about the deal in the past, calling it a "difficult deal to get done" because he says Kim truly did not want the tape out.

Ray J says their deal was that each would receive $400,000 plus 12.5% of the profits. Those figures are reflected in Hirsch's email to Kim and Ray J.


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Biggest irony of this how some people tried to copy her but failed miserably.

My only hope is that Vivid would pay me never to release my sex tape LOL

I think if someone like Selena Gomez put out a sex tape which included Justin that would sell huge.


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I never understood this one and had never heard of Kim or Ray before the sex tape. I guess Robert Kardashian was famous for the OJ trial, but the only name I remembered from that was Johnny Cochran.

It also didn't even convert on my celeb traffic :1orglaugh

I guess I had also never heard of Paris Hilton before her tape, but that one definitely went more "viral" in 2004, and at least the Hilton brand was a household name.