Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Win $440,000 Settlement Over Proposal Video Leak

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley must pay a $440,000 settlement to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian within the next few days for secretly shooting and leaking the couple's marriage proposal, according to TMZ. KimYe sued Hurley—who co-founded MixBit, the website where the video was first posted— in November 2013 for manipulating his way into the filming of the proposal at AT&T Park in San Francisco. All attendees, including Hurley, signed a confidentiality agreement because the footage from the proposal was to be exclusively broadcasted on E!’s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. However, soon after the proposal was over, Hurley leaked the footage to his then-new video sharing site. A furious Kim and Kanye found the source of the leaked footage and their lawyer, Eric George, issued a lawsuit against Hurley. George claimed in the lawsuit that Hurley was desperate after two flops following his YouTube stint. Hurley, along with Steve Chen, sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in 2006. He stepped down as CEO in 2010.

The lawsuit was allowed to proceed in March 2014 by a Los Angeles judge but Hurley’s lawyers appealed that ruling. The argument from Hurley’s legal team was that there was a loophole, and posting the footage wasn’t a violation of the confidentiality agreement. West and Kardashian stated that Hurley snuck into the filming of the proposal and was only allowed to stay if he signed the non-disclosure agreement. In April, California appeals court sided with ‘Ye that Hurly leaking footage of KimYe’s proposal on the CEO’s website broke the confidentiality agreement Hurly signed. The 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles upheld the ruling saying West and Kardashian had a strong case on claims of breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment against the YouTube founder.