Kim Kardashian West has dropped her lawsuit against a celebrity gossip site after it admitted that its reports suggesting she staged a robbery in Paris were false.
The reality TV star sued MediaTakeOut and its founder Fred Mwangaguhunga for libel earlier this month. The lawsuit cited three of the website’s stories that claimed French authorities suspected Kardashian West and her mother, Kris Jenner, of committing a crime by faking the Paris robbery three weeks ago.
The articles have since been taken down from the gossip site, which published a retraction on Monday.
“MediaTakeOut knows that Mrs. Kardashian West was in fact robbed in Paris,” it said. “We have permanently removed from our website any and all posts that suggested she staged the robbery, lied about it to the French police and committed an insurance crime.”
Mwangaguhunga had previously acknowledged that the website’s reporting went too far, although he said the information came from reputable sources.
Sources: TMZ.com, RadarOnline.com, Essence.com, CNN.com