At the end of last week, Destiney Bleu, a designer to stars like Beyoncé, Serena Williams, and Lady Gaga, took to Twitter to accuse Khloé Kardashian of blatantly knocking off a number of her designs. She quote tweeted Khloé’s Good American promotional video, writing, “When someone buys 1 of everything on your site, has you make them custom @dbleudazzled work, never posts it or wears it, then copies it.”
The video in question features a number of bedazzled bodysuits that bear a strong resemblance to some of the pieces Bleu has created. The denim brand, however, was quick to respond to the allegations, first posting three images in a row on its Instagram account of Cher, Diana Ross, and Britney Spears all wearing sheer, glittery bodysuits, writing in the first caption, “Important to know your fashion history #nofrauds.” Followers of the account clearly weren’t buying it, however, filling up the comment section with Kim K’s emoji of choice, a snake. The company then released an official statement regarding Destiney Bleu which reads, “Under no circumstances did Good American or Khloé Kardashian infringe on another brand’s intellectual property and we are going through the proper legal channels to handle the situation.”
It seems that on Thursday the youngest Kardashian’s clothing company did in fact pursue the proper legal channels, sending Bleu a cease and desist letter for defamation of character, demanding that she stop making “false statements,” “make an appropriate corrective statement” and “that [Destiney’s] trolls stop attacking [Khloé Kardashian’s] social media channels.” And that evening, Bleu’s lawyers responded in kind, providing a 27-page legal document of literal receipts obtained by PEOPLE.
The document attempts to disprove Kardashian’s lawyers’ claims that she has “never heard [Destiney’s] name” and “never saw [her] samples” by providing not only a detailed timeline of their client’s interactions with Khloé’s assistant and then stylist Monica Rose but screenshots of all of their email exchanges back and forth as well as invoices for the pieces Bleu ultimately sold her, including a pair of customized underwear bedazzled with the name, “Tristan Thompson.”
According to Bleu the timeline of events goes as follows:
11/10/2016 – Alexa Okyle, Khloé Kardashian’s executive assistant, emails Destiney stating that Khloé discovered Destiney’s line and wanted to see a lookbook.
11/15/2016 – Khloé orders fishnet tights and a custom jersey.
12/05/2016 – Khloé orders an additional 12 items, for a total of $925, plus gives final details on the custom jersey ordered by Khloe on 11/15/2016.
12/09/2016 – Khloé’s assistant requests that the items all be sent directly to Khloé Kardashian’s house in Calabasas, provides Khloé’s address, and adds Destiney’s messenger to the gate list.
12/09/2016 – Khloé’s stylist, Monica Rose, emails Destiney asking to borrow black and nude body suits. [These are the same bodysuits as in the images above which Bleu alleges were later copied by Good American]
12/13/2016 – Khloé’s 11/15/2016 order messengered to Calabasas address. Soon after, Destiney receives an email stating that “Khloé loves it all.”
1/06/2017 – Destiney receives another email from Alexa, stating that “Khloé also loves these bras & panties, can we get these too.” The email was accompanied by photos from Destiney’s Instagram account, showing 16 more items that they wanted to purchase from Destiney for a total of $1560.
1/09/2017 – Destiney receives an email from Alexa, asking if they could keep the bodysuits that Monica Rose pulled because Khloé loves them. Destiney informs Alexa that she would loan the items if worn temporarily for appearances. If they were being kept, however, they needed to be paid for, as they are $700 items.
1/30/2017 – Destiney receives a request from Khloé to purchase a sample bra that Destiney had loaned them for custom sizing purposes.
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