- A courtroom watched Tyga’s “Rack City” during Blac Chyna’s libel trial against the Kardashians.
- Wednesday was the first full day of Blac Chyna’s $108 trial for defamation and family interference.
- Late in the hearing, she said she felt “no ill will toward any of the ladies.”
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On the first full day of Blac Chyna’s $108 million trial for defamation and interference with the Kardashian family, jurors watched Chyna’s starring performance in rapper Tyga’s music video “Rack City” as evidence of her burgeoning career before she met ex Rob Kardashian.
The video was added to the Los Angeles court file by Chyna’s attorney, Lynne Ciani, as the attorney attempted to show Chyna’s notoriety separate from and intertwined with the Kardashian family before the lawsuit was filed in 2017.
In the video, Chyna is kidnapped by attackers and Tyga later rescues her as bombs go off behind them.
Chyna, whose real name is Angela White, is suing the Kardashian-Jenners for $100 million in damages. She claims they unfairly treated her to E! Network exec five years ago after she and Rob Kardashian split. The family has denied the allegations in the lawsuit.
Kardashian attorney Michael Rhodes initially objected to the video being played, but compromised so the jury could see the video without sound. During her testimony, Chyna explained her history of dating Tyga, becoming briefly engaged to him and sharing their son, King Cairo Stevenson. Kylie Jenner and Tyga were on and off for three years after he and Chyna split.
“Were you mad at Kylie when she stole your boyfriend?” Rhodes asked Chyna during his cross-examination. “No. I hold no grudges towards any of the ladies,” Chyna replied, referring to the Kardashian-Jenner sisters and matriarch Kris Jenner.
Khloe and Kim Kardashian attended the hearing wearing a tan trench coat and tan suit, respectively, and sat next to Kylie, who wore a black suit, and Kris Jenner, who wore a brown suit. They would occasionally fix each other’s hair, and Kim would pass a notebook back and forth while the attorney sat behind her.
During her testimony, Chyna repeatedly referred to Kris Jenner as “Miss Kris.”
Rhodes’ cross-examination of Chyna began less than an hour before the hearing after he complained that Ciani Chyna was “only asking leading questions.”
Rhodes’ exchanges with Chyna became increasingly testy as he claimed several incidents that Chyna was physically violent towards Rob, almost all of which she vehemently denied, admitting to breaking a series of gingerbread houses after Rob stole her phone and hid himself in a closet had included. “I smashed the gingerbread house,” Chyna told the court.
In the end, Rhodes quizzed the couple’s split timeline and vowed to start tomorrow’s session by comparing her testimony from her 2017 restraining order against Rob Kardashian with her testimony Wednesday.