Kris Jenner’s Control Issues Kill Kardashian-Only Tabloid Deal

January 19, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Around New Year’s, Page Six claimed that Kris Jenner was shilling hard to land a Kardashian-only tabloid magazine; like Reality Weekly, the new rag that’s being pushed hard in an ad-buy on tabloid websites, except this would have been a pro-Kardashian/ Kardashian-only publication.

P6 just followed-up on its report: Jenner’s ego and demands effectively tanked the project.

Kris Jenner’s demands for absolute editorial control has killed a deal with American Media Inc. to create a Kardashian-devoted fanzine after she insisted on approval on all stories about her family across their titles.

Page Six recently revealed the family was in talks with [AMI], home to Shape, Star, National Enquirer and Radar Online, to create a magazine entirely dedicated to the family’s antics. But sources told us the deal turned sour after Jenner demanded she have editorial approval over every AMI publication to ensure wall-to-wall positive coverage of the overexposed reality robots.

Our source told us AMI “balked” at the demand, even though megalomaniac mom Jenner offered to “dish” all of the family “scoop” to the fanzine. AMI execs argued they didn’t want to just swallow saccharine “Kardashian krap,” noting that while they have a television deal with E!, other outlets often get better scoops on the family.

AMI dealt the deal a mortal blow when Star last week claimed Jenner’s late ex-husband, Robert Kardashian, was not the biological father of Khloe Kardashian. Furious Jenner denied it, and realized that AMI would never bow to her demands.

“AMI chief David Pecker made it clear that there was no way he was going to tell his editors what stories they could and couldn’t do,” our source said. In turn, Jenner pulled Kardashian-related product ads from Star.

Pecker, who is traveling in Europe, did not return calls, and a rep for AMI declined to comment.

A rep for Jenner claimed, “Kris has never had a conversation with AMI regarding this issue [of her demands]. But, the allegations contained in the Star article about Khloe not being a Kardashian are completely fabricated, false and untrue. Robert Kardashian is absolutely her biological father, so of course she was upset over their story.” – via NY Post’s Page Six.

Sounds about right.

Jenner sought to, forcefully, become omnipotent and exercise a level of editorial control comparable to her executive producer role on Keeping Up With The Kardashians (and its spin-offs) where she can request things like… pro-Kim edits weeks after a scandal.