Kim Kardashian took a trip down memory lane as she shared a never-before-seen photo with her late father Robert Kardashian on Sunday.
The reality TV star, Kim Kardashian, 44, took to Instagram with the nostalgic image, which featured her as a little girl standing next to the attorney — who died at the age of 59 from esophageal cancer — and her mom Kris Jenner, 69.
The image saw Kris with her arms around Robert, both of them smiling at the camera, along with their daughter
‘Dad, Mom and Me,’ the SKIMS Kim Kardashian founder captioned the post.
Kris was married to Robert from 1978 until their divorce in 1991. Aside from Kim, they also welcomed daughters Kourtney, 46, and Khloe, 41, as well as son Rob, 38.
Kim Kardashian who recently tried to purchase a family heirloom connected to her father but was rejected — was 22 years old when her father passed away from in September 2003.
In 1998, seven years after his divorce from Kris was finalized, Robert married Jan Ashley; however, the marriage ended in annulment 30 days later.
After dating for three years, the Los Angeles native married his third wife, Ellen Pierson (née Markowitz), six weeks prior to his death
Meanwhile Kris married Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce), 75, in 1991, shortly after her divorce from Robert was finalized. They had two daughters together, Kendall, 29, and Kylie Jenner, 28.
Kim Kardashian is currently studying to become a lawyer, like her father.
In May, she completed her law school program after a six year journey. She still needs to pass the Bar Exam to practice law in the state.
In 2020, Kim Kardashian said she hoped that her father would be ‘so proud’ to see her pursuing a career in law and says whenever she gets ‘frustrated’ with studying, she thinks of him.
‘He must’ve been going through some of the same things that I have gone through. It would have been exciting to talk to him about that, and I know that he would be so, so proud,’ she said.
Kim has been working on prison reform in recent years, and hopes setting up her own law firm will help get former inmates into work.
In March, Kim’s attempt to purchase a family heirloom connected to her late father was rejected by O.J. Simpson’s estate.
The estate’s executor, Malcom LaVergne, revealed that they, sadly, had to turn down her $15,000 offer on the Bible her dad gifted Simpson, who died on April 10, 2024, because it was ‘too late to purchase it outside the auction.’
LaVergne revealed to TMZ that Kim’s team contacted him the month prior, after learning some of Simpson’s personal effects were going up for auction.
This included a Bible, featuring a handwritten note inside, penned by Robert to Simpson.
The inscription reads: ‘OJ, this book will help. God loves you and he will speak to you with his words. Read this book every day. God has a definite plan for your life. You are His child and He will use you again. I love you and God loves you. – Robert.’
LaVergne previously revealed that the bible was given to ‘The Juice’ while he was in jail after his two-hour chase across Southern California in his white Ford Bronco.
Inside the front cover, there contains an inscription to Simpson from Kardashian that is dated June 18, 1994 – exactly a day after the former NFL star’s arrest.
In an email sent to LaVergne from Kim’s team, he was informed that due to the ‘sentimental value’ the item held to Kim, she was ‘willing to offer $15,000’ to purchase the Bible.
By the time he received the email, LaVergne says the Bible ‘was already under contract and court order to be sold to pay off O.J.’s debt.’
Just weeks after the late NFL star’s estate turned down Kim’s offer to buy it, the family heirloom officially sold at auction for $65,800 — or $80,276 with its buyer’s premium, according to its listing on Goldin Auctions’ website.
The item received 49 bids total.
Robert, a devout Christian, and Simpson met in the 1960s or 1970s while they were both at the University of Southern California (USC).
Later, they reconnected while playing tennis at a mutual friend’s house.
Robert infamously supported Simpson during his 1995 trial for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Despite defending Simpson during his trial, the men ended up falling out following Simpson’s acquittal.
British actor Terence Stamp, who played the arch-villain General Zod in the ‘Superman’ and ‘Superman II’ movies, died today aged 87.
The Oscar-nominated actor starred in films ranging from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Theorem’ in 1968 and ‘A Season in Hell’ in 1971 to ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ in 1994 in which he played a transgender woman.
His family said in a statement this afternoon: ‘He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come. We ask for privacy at this sad time.’
Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London, died this morning but his cause of death was not immediately known.
Born in London’s East End in 1938, the son of a tugboat stoker, he endured the bombing of the city during the Second World War before leaving school to work initially in advertising, eventually winning a scholarship to go to drama school.
Famous for his good looks and impeccable dress sense, he formed one of Britain’s most glamorous couples with Julie Christie, with whom he starred in ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ in 1967.
Stamp – who is also remembered for his role in 1999 movie The Limey – dated the model Jean Shrimpton and was chosen as a muse by photographer David Bailey.
After failing to land the role of James Bond to succeed Sean Connery, he appeared in Italian films and worked with Federico Fellini in the late 1960s.
Stamp dropped out of the limelight and studied yoga in India before landing his most high-profile role – as General Zod, the megalomaniacal leader of the Kryptonians, in ‘Superman’ in 1978 and its sequel in 1980.
He went on to appear in a string of other films, including ‘Valkyrie’ with Tom Cruise in 2008, ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ with Matt Damon in 2011 and movies directed by Tim Burton.
Stamp liked to recall how he was on the verge of becoming a tantric sex teacher at an ashram in India when, in 1977, he received a telegram from his London agent with news that he was being considered for the ‘Superman’ film.
‘I was on the night flight the next day,’ Stamp said in an interview with his publisher Watkins Books in 2015.
After eight years largely out of work, getting the role of the arch-villain General Zod in ‘Superman’ and ‘Superman II’ turned the full glare of Hollywood’s limelight on the Londoner.
Buoyed by his new role, Stamp said he would respond to curious looks from passers-by with a command of: ‘Kneel before Zod, you b*****ds,’ which usually went down a storm.
Speaking about his early years, Stamp previously said: ‘The great blessing of my life is that I had the really hard bit at the beginning because we were really poor.’
He left school to work initially as a messenger boy for an advertising firm and quickly moved up the ranks before he won a scholarship to go to drama school.
Until then he had kept his acting ambitions secret from his family for fear of disapproval.
‘I couldn’t tell anyone I wanted to be an actor because it was out of the question. I would have been laughed at,’ he said.
He shared a flat with another young London actor, Michael Caine, and landed the lead role in director Peter Ustinov’s 1962 adaptation of ‘Billy Budd’, a story of brutality in the British navy in the 18th century.
That role earned him an Academy Award nomination and filled him with pride.
‘To be cast by somebody like Ustinov was something that gave me a great deal of self-confidence in my film career,’ Stamp told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2019. ‘During the shooting, I just thought, ‘Wow! This is it’.’
He also said the love of his life was the model Jean Shrimpton, adding: ‘When I lost her, then that also coincided with my career taking a dip.’
After failing to land the role of Bond to succeed Connery, Stamp appeared in Italian films and worked with Fellini in the late 1960s.
‘I view my life really as before and after Fellini,’ he said. ‘Being cast by him was the greatest compliment an actor like myself could get.’
It was while working in Rome – where he appeared in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Theorem’ in 1968 and ‘A Season in Hell’ in 1971 – that Stamp met Indian spiritual speaker and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti in 1968.
Krishnamurti taught the Englishman how to pause his thoughts and meditate, prompting Stamp to study yoga in India.
Mumbai was his base but he spent long periods at the ashram in Pune, dressed in orange robes and growing his hair long, while learning the teachings of his yogi, including tantric sex.
‘There was a rumour around the ashram that he was preparing me to teach the tantric group,’ he said in the 2015 interview with Watkins Books. ‘There was a lot of action going on.’
After landing the role of General Zod in ‘Superman’ and its sequel, both times opposite Christopher Reeve, he went on to appear in a string of other films.
He counted Princess Diana among his friends.
‘It wasn’t a formal thing, we’d just meet up for a cup of tea, or sometimes we’d have a long chat for an hour. Sometimes it would be very quick,’ he told the Daily Express in 2017. ‘The time I spent with her was a good time.’
In 2002, Stamp married for the first time at the age of 64 – to Elizabeth O’Rourke, a pharmacist, who was 35 years his junior. They divorced in 2008.
Asked by the Stage 32 website how he got film directors to believe in his talent, Stamp said: ‘I believed in myself.
‘Originally, when I didn’t get cast I told myself there was a lack of discernment in them. This could be considered conceit. I look at it differently. Cherishing that divine spark in myself.’