Kardashian household matriarch Kris Jenner is about to work out a secret cope with her former bodyguard to lastly settle his sexual assault lawsuit in opposition to her, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Jenner, 66, and accuser Marc McWilliams have agreed to take his case to non-public arbitration, which means any compromise between them shall be hashed out behind closed doorways.
McWilliams, who’s 20 years Jenner’s junior, has accused the well-known momager of sexual harassment and of groping his crotch when he was nonetheless working for the household in 2017.
Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Choose Armen Tamzarian gave each events a 12 months – till January 6, 2023 – to search out an arbitrator, normally a personal choose, to hearken to arguments from either side and give you a settlement or settlement.
Kris Jenner, 66, and accuser Marc McWilliams (proper) have agreed to take his case in opposition to her into non-public arbitration, DailyMail.com can reveal
The well-known momager, pictured with daughters Kim and Khloe Kardashian final month, is accused of sexually assaulting her former bodyguard when he was nonetheless working for the household in 2017
Jenner – who has been relationship boyfriend Corey Gamble, 41, since 2014 – was not in court docket for the listening to.
Nor was McWilliams, 45, a one-time rapper turned Kardashian safety guard, who first sued Jenner in 2020 for $3million, claiming she grabbed his butt, uncovered herself to him, and had him fired when he rebuffed her advances.
He then added one other beautiful accusation to his authorized motion final February, claiming Jenner sexually assaulted him whereas they have been out in her luxurious Bentley.
In his amended grievance, McWilliams – who labored for the well-known TV clan between 2017 and 2019 – advised of the ‘significantly surprising’ incident the morning of October 22, 2017 when he claims Jenner needed to exit in her Bentley and ordered him to sit down within the entrance passenger seat.
As Jenner drove, ‘She started making feedback to plaintiff (McWilliams) of a flirtatious and overtly sexual nature,’ stated his legal professional Sean Novak in authorized paperwork.
‘With out warning, Jenner positioned her proper hand on the within higher left thigh and groin space of McWilliams in a fashion that was overtly sexually offensive.
‘She then brought on her proper hand to maneuver up the higher, interior left thigh and groin, whereas caressing McWilliams.
‘McWilliams was shocked and offended by the uninvited and overtly sexual contact by Jenner and tried to shift away from her groping.
‘As he moved his physique away from the offensive sexual contact, Jenner’s proper hand come into contact with McWilliams’ interior groin and genital space.’
McWilliams, 45, a one-time rapper turned Kardashian safety guard, claimed in his unique grievance that Jenner was ‘repeatedly and incessantly inflicting her physique to come back into intimate bodily contact’ along with his physique
McWilliams, who labored as a bodyguard for the Kardashian clan between 2017 and 2019, claims Jenner as soon as groped him and made suggestive feedback after they have been out in her Bentley (pictured in 2014) in October 2017
McWilliams, first sued Jenner in 2020 for $3M claiming she grabbed his butt, uncovered herself to him, and had him fired when he rebuffed her advances. He then filed an amended grievance final February embody allegations she had groped his crotch in 2017
McWilliams was ’emotionally distressed’ by Jenner’s ‘outrageous and uninvited’ actions, which, ‘at no time did he consent to,’ the submitting states.
The swimsuit additional claimed that McWilliams had suffered ‘bodily and psychological ache….sickness….lack of sleep, despair’ and different well being points because of Jenner’s alleged conduct.
Jenner’s eldest daughter Kourtney Kardashian, 42, was additionally named within the lawsuit but it surely was her mom who subjected McWilliams to a ‘sample of undesirable and unwelcome sexual advances and in any other case harassing misconduct,’ he claimed in court docket paperwork.
In line with McWilliams’s declarations in his unique grievance, Kris was ‘repeatedly and incessantly inflicting her physique to come back into intimate bodily contact’ along with his physique.
Amongst her ‘inappropriate’ and ‘sexually suggestive’ conduct, he listed:-
*’Massaging (his) neck, shoulders, arms and again with out his consent;
*’Inflicting her hand to relaxation on (his) thigh and groin;
*’Inflicting her pelvis to rub in opposition to (his)again advert/or rear finish with out his consent or approval;
*’Inflicting her palms to come back into contact with (his) rear finish with out his consent nor approval;
*’Exposing parts of her physique to (him) in a lewd or suggestive method’.
McWilliams – searching for a jury trial and $3million in damages – advised Jenner that her conduct was unwelcome and requested her to cease, he stated in court docket paperwork.
McWilliams (backside left) is a founding member and shut good friend of R. Kelly as they based music group MGM within the late 80s
Jenner has been relationship boyfriend Corey Gamble, 41, (pictured collectively on the 2021 Met Gala) since 2014
‘However Jenner ignored all such requests and persevered with this inappropriate misconduct.’
McWilliams – who’s African American – additionally alleged racial discrimination, together with, ‘pervasive and merciless mockery, harassment, belittling, and in any other case humiliating mistreatment by defendants attributable to (his) race.’
He complained to his safety firm employer’s human assets division, however he contended, he was once more ignored.
McWilliams was suspended from working with Kris, however continued working for Kourtney, until he was fired in September 2019, he stated. His lawsuit additionally alleged wrongful termination in opposition to his employers, David Defend Safety and Armor Safety Companies.
McWilliams claimed that after his firing, he endured ‘harassment, intimidation and in any other case threatening misconduct in an effort to dissuade or forestall (him) from bringing any type of motion in opposition to defendants for his or her illegal misconduct.’
After McWilliams filed his lawsuit, Jenner’s legal professional, Marty Singer, trashed the claims in a press release to DailyMail.com, saying: ‘Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian vehemently deny the utterly false claims made by former safety guard Marc.
‘His absurd allegations are clearly fabricated and are opposite to simply confirmed details. Kris by no means acted inappropriately towards him.
‘The safety firm stopped assigning McWilliams to work there after the guard was repeatedly caught sleeping in his automotive on the job,’ Singer stated.
‘Considerably, McWilliams by no means made any complaints to his employer about Kris till contriving this ludicrous declare a 12 months later.
The Kardashian-Jenner’s actuality TV sequence Protecting Up with the Kardashians – which catapulted their careers – ended its twentieth and closing season final June after a 13-year run
‘Though Kourtney is called within the swimsuit, she will not be accused of doing something improper, nor did she achieve this’,; the lawyer added.
McWilliams is a founding member of the late-80s group MGM – Musically Gifted Males – which he began along with his shut good friend, disgraced rap star R. Kelly.
After 19 seasons on Protecting Up With The Kardashians, the sequence which catapulted the household into the highlight after it launched in 2007, debuted its twentieth – and final – season final 12 months.
Kris’s first style of fame got here throughout her first marriage to LA lawyer Robert Kardashian when he was one of many ‘dream staff’ of prime attorneys who gained an acquittal for O.J. Simpson on the finish of his infamous homicide trial within the mid 90s.
She and Robert had 4 youngsters, daughters Kourtney, Kim, now 41, Khloe, 37, and son Rob, 34. They divorced in 1991 and Robert died of most cancers in 2003.
In April 1991 – solely a month after her divorce from Kardashian – Kris married her second husband, ex Olympic gold medal successful athlete, Bruce Jenner they usually had two youngsters, Kendall, 26, and Kylie, 24
The couple break up up in 2013 and divorced in 2015, the identical 12 months Bruce publicly declared himself as a transgender girl, renaming himself Caitlyn Jenner.