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The reality star opened up about her brief marriage to the former NBA player, claiming that as part of their 2013 divorce settlement, she "had to" give up her 18-carat emerald-cut diamond ring.
"I didn't keep that," Kim revealed on the March 13 episode of The Kardashians, describing how she fell pregnant with North West, her and Kanye West's eldest kid, while still legally married to Kris, whom she divorced in October 2011 after 72 days of marriage. "In order to divorce him, he said I had to give him the ring."
The 44-year-old continued by claiming that during their relationship, Kris "contributed a fifth" of the ring's cost, while she paid for it.
Kim acknowledged that she still had some residual anger over the experience, despite Lorraine Schwartz, the ring's designer, telling her that she had chosen the "best" choice at the time. It was her own words: "I would've loved a collection." Where's the ring now, then? Following the settlement of his divorce from Kim, Kris ultimately sold it at auction for $749,000.
In 2013, his representative told E! News that "the ring is indeed Kris' property that he received through his marriage dissolution." The Boston Celtics alum was "very pleased with the final result" of the auction, according to a second statement.
Nevertheless, Kim has amassed a number of noteworthy jewelry pieces throughout the years. In the couple's 2022 divorce settlement, she retained a 15-carat ring from Kanye, but her 14-carat cushion-cut engagement ring from her first husband, Damon Thomas, actually belonged to her mother, Kris Jenner.
Kim said that the ring was the "only piece of jewelry" she was missing when she was robbed in a Paris hotel in 2016. "My first one that I got engaged with Kanye was a cushion-cut," she continued.
Kim claimed that the "original ring that I got proposed to" was the "most important" item, even though her second engagement ring from Kanye, which had a 20-carat emerald-cut diamond, was taken during the terrifying heist.
"I'm going to award that one to Northie because she was with me when I got engaged."
