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  TWENTY-SIX: A “COMPLEX” LIE

  Author interviews with Nate Denver. Complex magazine. Author interviews with Mickey Boardman. Paper magazine. News reports about Odom, and men in Kardashian women’s lives.

  TWENTY-SEVEN: THE “MISFIT”

  Author interviews with confidential source on Bruce Jenner. Author interview with Paul Cohen. Author interview with business confidant. Author interview with Playboy mansion source. Press reports regarding Linda Thompson, and Thompson’s memoir. Press reports regarding Chrystie Scott.

  EPILOGUE

  Forbes and other business press accounts. Confidential sources. Press reports regarding Kris Jenner’s talk show. Press reports regarding Kardashian financial business issues. Robin Givhan quote from Washington Post. Maureen Callahan quote from New York Post. Kris Jenner political talk from confidential sources.

  SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Dunn, Dominick. Justice: Crimes, Trials and Punishments. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.

  Edwards, Michael. Priscilla, Elvis and Me. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

  Finstad, Suzanne. Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997.

  Jenner, Kris. Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian. New York: Gallery Books, 2011.

  Kardashian, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé. Kardashian Konfidential. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.

  Oppenheimer, Jerry. House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris, A Drama of Wealth, Power and Privilege. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.

  Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu with Sandra Harmon. Elvis and Me. New York: Berkley Books, 1986.

  Resnick, Faye D. with Jeanne V. Bell. Shattered: In the Eye of the Storm. Beverly Hills, Ca.: Dove Audio, Inc., 1996.

  Resnick, Faye D. with Mike Walker. Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted. Beverly Hills, Ca.: Dove Books, 1994.

  Reynolds, Debbie and David Patrick Columbia. Debbie: My Life. New York: William Morrow, 1988.

  Reynolds, Debbie and Dorian Hannaway. Unsinkable: A Memoir. New York: William Morrow, 2013.

  Schiller, Lawrence and Willwerth, James. American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense. New York: Random House, 1996.

  Shakarian, Demos as told to John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The Happiest People on Earth. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Chosen Books, 1975.

  Shakarian, Richard. Still the Happiest People. Charlotte, N.C.: LifeBridge, 2012.

  Stafford, Susan. Stop the Wheel I Want to Get Off. 2010.

  Tallman, Mathew W. Demos Shakarian: The Life, Legacy and Vision of a Full Gospel Business Man. Lexington, Ky.: Emeth Press, 2010.

  Thompson, Linda. A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner and Songs in Between. New York: Dey St., 2016.

  Toobin, Jeffrey. The People v. O.J. Simpson. New York: Random House, 1996.

  Weller, Sheila. Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. New York: Pocket Books, 1995.

  Along with the aforementioned books, a number of periodicals—pop culture celebrity weeklies, online sites specializing in celebrity news and gossip, and mainstream newspapers and magazines were researched for credible stories and opinion regarding the Kardashians. Among them were: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Mail, and The Guardian and their affiliated Web sites. Also cited: Life & Style, Radar, People, TMZ, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, US, Variety, Complex magazine, Paper magazine, and Vogue.

  INDEX

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  Adams, K. S. “Boots”

  Adelson, Merv

  Agajanian, Cary J. C.

  Agajanian, J. C.

  Agajanian, Joan

  Agnew, Spiro

  Ailes, Roger

  AMC

  American Idol

  American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense (Schiller and Willwerth)

  Anderson, Pamela

  Angeles Mesa Presbyterian Church

  Aniston, Jennifer

  Anti-Defamation League

  anti-Semitism

  Apprentice, The

  Arakelian, Annie

  Arakelian, Arut

  Armenia, Armenians

  Ashley, Janice Lynn “Jan”

  Ashley, John

  Audubon Junior High School

  Azoff, Allison

  Azoff, Irving

  Azoff, Shelli

  Baartman, Saartjie

  Baldwin, Alec

  Barbieri, Paula

  Basinger, Kim

  Beatty, Warren

  Beaulieu, Michelle

  Beaumont, Carolina

  Bedrosian, John

  Bel-Air Country Club

  Bel-Air Presbyterian Church

  Benet, Eric

  Bening, Annette

  Berry, Halle

  Bieber, Justin

  Billboard

  Black, Shirley Temple

  Black Lives Matter (BLM)

  Black Owned Beauty Supply Association (BOBSA)

  Blair, Selma

  Blair, Terre

  Boardman, Mickey

  Bonner, Robert C.

  Bono, Sonny

  Boone, Debby

  Boone, Pat

  Boone, Shirley

  Brady Bunch, The

  Brandy

  Briskin, Judy Wilder

  British Open

  Brooks Institute

  Brown, Denise

  Brown, Juditha

  Burton, Richard

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, Reggie

  Byler, Tony

  California Military Academy

  Callahan, Maureen

  Callahan-Bever, Noah

  Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa

  Campbell, Gordon Lowe

  Cantor, Bernie

  Cantor, Iris

  Cantor Fitzgerald

  Can’t Stop the Music

  Carey, Mariah

  Carillo, Amber

  Carr, Allan

  Casa Kimberly

  Celebrity Apprentice, The

  Central Union Church of Honolulu

  Chapman, Shawn

  Christian Identity Movement

  Church of Scientology

  Cicha, Frank

  Clairemont High School

  Clark, Dick

  Clark, Marcia

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  Clooney, George

  Cochran, Johnnie

  Cohen, Paul

  Complex

  Concert Cinema

  Cooper, Gary

  Cosmopolitan

  Cowlings, Al “A.C.”

  Crane, Steve

  Crosby, Bing

  Crystal Cathedral

  Cuban Missile Crisis

  Cutrona, Henry

  Cyrus, Miley

  Daily Beast

  Daily Mail

  DailyMail.com

  Dalitz, Morris Barney “Moe”

  Dancing With the Stars

  Dannen, Frederic

  Darden, Christopher

  Davies, Clem

  Davis, Altovise

  Davis, Marvin

  Davis, Sammy, Jr.

  Day, Doris

  Deep Canyon

  Del Mar Thoroughbred Club

  Denver, Nate

  DeWitt, Joyce

  Disick, Mason

  Disick, Penelope

  Disick, Reign

  Disick, Scott

  Dorsey High School

  Dunaway, Faye

  Dunne, Dominick

  Duran, Sylvia

  Dylan, Bob

  E!

  Eamer, Richard

  Eastwood, Clint
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  Ebright, Albert E.

  Elliott, Drew

  Elvis and Me (Presley)

  Ennon, Sam

  Esposito, Joan, see Kardashian, Joan Esposito

  Esposito, Joe

  Evans, Robert

  Fairbanks, James Edwin (Kris’s step-grandfather)

  Fairbanks, Lou Ethel Wyatt Campbell (Kris’s grandmother)

  Farjam, Farnaz

  Fashanu, Justin

  Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  FBI

  Federal Trade Commission

  Feinerman, Robert

  Fenton, Kathleen Mary Dugan Avanzino Richards Catain

  Financial Times

  Forbes

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford, Glenn

  Fortune

  Fox Television Stations Group

  Franken, Al

  Frann, Mary

  Friedman, Anita

  Friedman, Elizabeth

  Friedman, Johanna

  Friedman, Robert A.

  Friedman, Vanessa

  Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International

  Gabor, Eva

  Gabor, Jolie

  Gabor, Magda

  Gabor, Zsa Zsa

  Garvey, Candace

  Garvey, Cyndy

  Garvey, Steve

  Geffen, David

  Girard, Chuck

  Givens, Robin

  Givhan, Robin

  Glamour

  Glaser, Robert

  Glaser, Tara

  Glass, James

  Glass, Monnie

  Gledhill, Charles

  Goldman, Ron

  golf

  Gone in 60 Seconds

  Gooding, Cuba, Jr.

  Good Morning America

  Goude, Jean-Paul

  Great Western Packing

  Greenberg, Alan “Ace”

  Griffin, Merv

  Gruelle, John Barton

  Gulliksen, Joan

  Gulliksen, Kenn

  American Tragedy and

  Boone and

  Khloé’s paternity and

  Kris and

  Robert Kardashian and

  Simpson and

  Hagopian, Avak

  Halicki, Bud

  Halicki, Denice Ann Shakarian

  Halicki, Henry Blight “Toby”

  Hamlisch, Marvin

  Handy, Bruce

  Happiest People on Earth, The (Sherrill and Sherrill)

  Harden, James

  Harding, Kurt

  Hardy, Oliver

  Harte-Hanks Communications

  Hasselhoff, David

  Haute Living

  Hawaiian Open

  Hefner, Hugh

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Hersh, Neal Raymond

  Hiding Place

  Hilton, Conrad

  Hilton, Kathy Richards

  Hilton, Nicky

  Hilton, Paris

  Hilton, Rick

  Hirsch, Steven

  Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (Dannen)

  Hit Tunes

  Holley, Shawn Chapman

  Hollywood Reporter

  Hope, Bob

  Houghton, Carolyn Sue

  Houghton, Karen (Kris’s sister)

  Houghton, Robert True (Kris’s father)

  death of

  Houghton, True (Kris’s grandfather)

  How to Be a Bad Bitch (Rose)

  Huffington Post

  Hughes, Howard

  Humphries, Kris

  Huston, John

  I Am Cait

  I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

  In Bed with Joan

  Jackson, Michael

  JAG

  JAG O.J.

  Jenner, Bill

  Jenner, Brandon Thompson

  Jenner, Brody

  Jenner, Bruce (Caitlyn)

  Chrystie Scott’s marriage to

  gender identity of

  I Am Cait

  Keeping Up with the Kardashians and

  Kraines and

  Kris’s divorce from

  Kris’s marriage to

  Kris’s meeting of

  Linda Thompson’s marriage to

  as Olympic athlete

  Tower Lane estate and

  Jenner, Burt

  Jenner, Cassandra Lynn “Casey”

  Jenner, Esther

  Jenner, Kendall

  Jenner, Kristen “Kris” Houghton Kardashian

  birth of

  breast implants of

  Bruce’s divorce from

  Bruce’s marriage to

  Bruce’s meeting of

  Bruce’s gender identity and

  cars of

  cheerleader squad and

  childhood and teen years of

  Ellen Pearson’s legal battle with

  family background of

  family franchise and empire of

  as flight attendant

  Gulliksen and

  infidelity of, in marriage to Robert

  Joan Kardashian and

  Kim’s sex tape and

  Kris

  at La Costa

  lifestyle and spending of

  memoir of

  “momager” sobriquet of

  and murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

  political aspirations of

  psychological profile of

  religious faith and

  Robert’s control of

  Robert’s death and

  Robert’s diary and

  Robert’s divorce from

  Robert’s engagement to

  Robert’s living with

  Robert’s marriage to

  Robert’s meeting of

  Robert’s romance with

  Roldan and

  Sanudo and

  in school

  self-help tapes given by Robert to

  sex and

  Simpson and

  ski trip of

  Tower Lane home of

  Waterman and

  weddings of

  Jenner, Kylie

  Jesus Movement

  John, Elton

  Johnson, Casey

  Jolie, Angelina

  Jones, Grace

  Jowell, Tessa

  Judd, Cris

  Juice Inc.

  Jungle Fever (Goude)

  Kaelin, Kato

  Kardashian, Arthur Thomas

  death of

  Kardashian, Barbara

  Kardashian, Bob

  Kardashian, Hamas Shakarian

  Kardashian, Helen Jean Arakelian

  Kardashian, Joan Esposito

  Kris and

  Tom’s marriage to

  Kardashian, Khloé

  birth of

  and father’s marriage to Jan

  Harden and

  Kardashian Konfidential

  marriage to Odom

  net worth of

  physical appearance and paternity of

  Thompson and

  Waterman and

  Kardashian, Kim

  birth of

  Bruce’s gender identity and

  Clinton and

  cultural appropriation accusation against

  derriere of

  earnings and net worth of

  extravagance of

  father’s death and

  and father’s marriage to Jan

  interview with Complex

  jewelry stolen

  Kanye and

  Kardashian Konfidential

  marriage to Damon Thomas

  marriage to Kris Humphries

  name of

  Paper magazine cover of

  Sears and

  selfies of

  sex tape of

  Simpson trial and

  Kardashian, Kourtney

  birth of

  father’s death and

  and father’s marriage to Jan

  Kardashian Konfidential

  net worth of

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  Kardashian, Paulette

  Kardashian, Robert, Jr.

  birth of

  and father’s marriage to Jan

  net worth of

  tattoo of

  Kardashian, Robert George

  American Tragedy and

  Azoff and

  birth of

  as born-again Christian

  business ideas of

  cars of

  celebrity of

  in college

  Concert Cinema and

  dating of

  Deep Canyon home of

  Denice Halicki and

  diary of

  dogs of

  early life of

  Ellen Pearson’s marriage to

  football and

  funeral for

  Gulliksen and

  guns of

  hair of

  in high school

  illness and death of

  Italian vacation of

  Janice Ashley’s marriage to

  in junior high school

  Khloé’s paternity and

  and Kim’s marriage to Dash

  Kris controlled by

  Kris given self-help audio tapes by

  Kris’s divorce from

  Kris’s engagement to

  Kris’s infidelity while married to

  Kris’s living with

  Kris’s marriage to

  Kris’s meeting of

  Kris’s romance with

  Kris’s ski trip and

  law practice of

  at Luau

  meatpacking business and

  military draft and

  in military school

  Movie Tunes and

  Priscilla Presley and

  prophecy and

  psychological profile of

  Radio & Records and

  religious faith of

  Rob’s tattoo of

  sex and

  Shawn Chapman and

  Simpson as business partner of

  Simpson defended by

  Simpson’s friendship with

  Simpson’s letter read to media by

  Simpson’s luggage and

  Simpson’s meeting of

  Stepford Wives and

  Tower Lane home of

  vasectomy of

  wedding of, to Kris

  Walters’ interview with

  West and

  Wilson and

  Kardashian, Sam

  Kardashian, Tatos Saghatel

  Kardashian, Thomas Arthur ‘Tommy”

  Deep Canyon home of

  early life of

  at Luau

  marriage to Joan

  in meatpacking industry and bribery scandal

  in military school

  Movie Tunes and

  Radio & Records and

  Robert’s illness and death and

  Rob Jr.’s tattoo and

  Simpson and

  Wilson and

  Kardashian-Jenner family franchise and empire

  Kardashian Konfidential (Kardashian, Kardashian, and Kardashian)

  Katz, Deena

  Keeping Up with the Kardashians

  Kelley, Virginia Clinton

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  Khloé & Lamar