Kimberly Noel Kardashian (born October 21, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American socialite, apparel retailer and television personality. She is best known for her adventurous social life, scandals and her new reality show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Personal life

She is the daughter of the attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner. Kardashian is of Armenian descent.^[1] Her father, who was best known for being O. J. Simpson’s lawyer during his murder trial, died September 30, 2003 when Kardashian was 22 years old.^[2] Her mother, Kris Jenner, divorced Robert in 1989, and is currently married to former Olympian Bruce Jenner.^[3] Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, and one brother, Robert. She also has three step-brothers, including reality TV star Brody Jenner, one step-sister, and two half-sisters, Kendall and Kylie.

Kardashian attended an exclusive all-girls Catholic high school in Los Angeles. As a young woman, she worked at her father's music marketing firm, Movie Tunes. She then parlayed her entrepreneurial instincts into a successful career as a wardrobe stylist for television programs, magazine photo layouts and infomercials. Described by the press as a "stylist." Kardashian has also been said to have a closet organizing business.

She also gained attention in the mid-late 2000s for her friendship with heiress and media darling Paris Hilton. Her friendship with socialite Paris Hilton has made her a gossip column favorite.

Kardashian is a boutique owner of a high-end clothing store in Calabasas, California called Dash. The store opened in mid 2007 and is co-owned with Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian. Kardashian was little known outside gossip circles until she announced in early 2007 that she was taking legal action to prevent the distribution of a pornographic home video she had made with then-boyfriend Ray J (born William Ray Norwood, Jr., the brother of singer Brandy).

In 2000, Kardashian married music producer Damon Thomas, though the couple divorced in 2004.