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'Kim Kardashian ruined my life!' Reality star's ex business partner who developed 'Kimoji' app that made 'a million a minute' says he's now living out of his car after losing $2m fortune, home and wife when deal went south
Daily Mail ^ | Chris White

Posted on 05/05/2023 1:30:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A software developer who worked with Kim Kardashian on her lucrative 'Kimoji' app claims he's been left financially ruined and is living out of his car.

David Liebensohn, 43, and two colleagues invented the Kardashian-themed emoji range, which resulted in thousands of downloads a second and the app supposedly generating $1million a minute.

But they didn't see a cent after their deal fell apart after what he claims were misunderstandings and Kim and her no-nonsense lawyer Marty Singer gave them little option but to walk away from developing Kimoji, losing out on a fortune.

Liebensohn sued Kim for $300million in 2019 claiming she stole his idea, ran away with the trademark, telling DailyMail.com: 'If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want everyone to know the truth about the Kardashians.

'I refuse to be gagged.'

But Kardashian's team says that Liebensohn willingly signed away all rights to the app, giving Kim 'unfettered' ownership of Kimoji, and noted that his claims against her were rejected by an LA Superior Court judge.

Liebensohn and his colleagues had initially agreed on a deal with Kardashian's team for a profit-share on Kimoji and an anti-cyber bullying app they'd created called CensorGram, which Kim was eager to be the face of before the deal went south.

Kim's ex husband Kanye West even rapped about the success of the app in his 2015 song Facts: 'Kimoji just shut down the app store! And we made a million a minute, we made a million a minute!'

Liebensohn says he was forced to withdraw his $300million lawsuit as his legal fees spiraled out of control, along with the rest of his life.

He lost his home, his $2million business and his family, he told DailyMail.com. He now lives in his 2011 Toyota Prius to save on rent

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: davidliebensohn; donatenow; kardashiangrifters; kimkardashian; kimoji; kimojiapp; kimthegrifter
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TL;DR Kim K = Mark Zuckerberg, David Liebensohn = Winklevoss Twins
1 posted on 05/05/2023 1:30:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He should have learned the family is a black widow family who consume males as a habit.


2 posted on 05/05/2023 1:33:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: nickcarraway

If it was truly making a million dollars a minute and he only got two million total, then he really did get screwed.


3 posted on 05/05/2023 1:34:30 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.y )
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from the website he created: www.kimkardashianruinedmylife.com

this seems to sum up the root of his problem:

Our team pitched them on a new project we created just for Kim called "Kimoji." Kim and her team agreed to be equal partners on Kimoji and split Censorgram 60-40% us. Everyone was excited after this meeting and Kim's team verbally agreed to sign off on both projects, with pending net contracts to come......Kim called us and asked if our team had filed a trademark and told us that her team would file it for us. Sadly, that never happened. Kim's team filed the trademark behind our back and cut us out of the deal completely.

4 posted on 05/05/2023 1:39:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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Unjust enrichment?


5 posted on 05/05/2023 1:39:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: noiseman

It might have been an exaggeration to say a $1million/minute, but he thinks it was high revenue and they took it from him.

They have good lawyers and you can’t deal with the Kardashian family without first having locked down your creations so well that not even Disney can take it from you before you talk to them.


6 posted on 05/05/2023 1:40:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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I got burned on a profit-sharing scheme, but the boss bought a big farmhouse...

Still kinda pissed, but he's dead--cancer.

Bad Karma, according to Warren Zevon.

7 posted on 05/05/2023 1:42:43 PM PDT by W. (Abortion empowers democrats.)
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'Kim Kardashian ruined my life!'

Did he leave with his sanity and his testicles? If so, he's way ahead of Kanye West, Lamar Odom and Bruce Jenner. Be grateful - the Kardashians take a toll on men.
8 posted on 05/05/2023 1:43:29 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: PGR88

A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. What you are supposed to do is first draft a letter of understanding, then proceed from there to negotiate the final contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_understanding


9 posted on 05/05/2023 1:47:59 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: nickcarraway

A guy this bright living out of his car? He’s on drugs or alcohol or both.


10 posted on 05/05/2023 1:50:58 PM PDT by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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That was the most asinine statement I have heard today on FreeRepublic. You dont know the guy.


11 posted on 05/05/2023 2:12:00 PM PDT by JoeRender
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Is she famous for anything other than having a huge caboose?


12 posted on 05/05/2023 2:30:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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he obviously did not have much going for him in the first place if he is now living out of his car,


13 posted on 05/05/2023 2:36:12 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW) )
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That was the most asinine statement I have heard today on FreeRepublic. You dont know the guy.

What I do know is a minimum that it takes to get on in a tiny apartment is easy. All anyone needs is a computer, smartphone, printer, car, paypal and bank account. These are things that damn near everyone already has. Even teenagers. For someone to go from everything that this guy had to living out of a car....there is much more to this story. $20 says hes got major personal issues. Why? Because basically everyone that is in his situation does. Thats why!
14 posted on 05/05/2023 2:38:40 PM PDT by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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But Kardashian's team says that Liebensohn willingly signed away all rights to the app, giving Kim 'unfettered' ownership of Kimoji, and noted that his claims against her were rejected by an LA Superior Court judge.

The more money ya got, the more justice you can buy.

15 posted on 05/05/2023 2:45:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: nickcarraway

I fear there will be a lot more of us living in the ‘hotel Prius’ before we ever get ourselves out of the mess Covid and then the people who run puppet Biden have put us into.


16 posted on 05/05/2023 2:47:50 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes)
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This story reminds me of a cab driver where I lived 35 years ago. He was an older black man, and he carried a large file of documents with him in the taxi. Every time I got into his cab, he shared his story and showed this paperwork. He must’ve told every passenger the same story:

He’d invented a quality brand of baby diapers. He sent his idea with diagrams to a large diaper company and asked if they were interested, and he filed for a patent. The company sent him a rejection letter and filed for a patent for the same idea. Guess who got the patent - not the cab driver. So, he filed a lawsuit, showing he’d sent his idea to the company before it filed for a patent. He argued that he was the inventor, so he should have the patent. The company argued they’d already come up with the idea on their own, and they just happened to file the patent after they received his diagrams. The poor guy kept losing to this big, powerful company.


17 posted on 05/05/2023 3:05:56 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: know.your.why

You appear to be articulating nothing other than personal bias and prejudice. Not sure how interesting that should be to others within your blast radius, but perhaps that’s due to a shortfall of creativity.


18 posted on 05/05/2023 3:26:16 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: nickcarraway

“...their deal fell apart after what he claims were misunderstandings and Kim and her no-nonsense lawyer Marty Singer gave them little option...Kardashian’s team says that Liebensohn willingly signed away all rights to the app, giving Kim ‘unfettered’ ownership of Kimoji.”

Nobody likes lawyers, but nothing beats a good contract lawyer. I spent a lot of time in R&D and in Sales OPperations working closely with our legal teams writing unambiguous, ironclad, no-misundertanding, highly detailed contracts that left no wiggle room on who owned the IP, deliverables, software and products.

Sounds like Liebensohn was really wet behind the ears.


19 posted on 05/05/2023 3:28:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: one guy in new jersey
You appear to be articulating nothing other than personal bias and prejudice.

Dude! The story says hes a software engineer. And now he's living out of a car. Do the math. What part of that dont you get? Something simply does not add up. There is a reason that he is homeless other than losing a court battle. Maybe he enjoys living out of his car? Ok. 99% of people dont. Basically ALL people living out of their cars are there because of some chemical addiction and/or mental illness.
20 posted on 05/05/2023 3:32:21 PM PDT by know.your.why
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