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Forbes takes privacy seriously and is committed to transparency. We will never share your email address with third parties without your permission. By signing in, you are indicating that you accept ourand. BETAThis is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking hereGetty ImagesForbes StaffForbes StaffFollowing the moneyEarlier this year, Kylie Jenner sold half of her cosmetics company in one of the greatest celebrity cash-outs of all time. But the deal’s fine print reveals that she has been inflating the size and success of her business. For years.

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More than a decade into their fame, the Kardashian-Jenners tend to induce eye rolls and sighs among jaded media consumers. But when it comes to their wealth, even critics of reality TV’s first family are intrigued; the Kardashian-Jenner machine—and the cash it generates—has been the subject of articles, podcasts, even books. But no one cares more about the topic than the family itself, which has spent years fighting Forbes for higher spots on our annual wealth and celebrity earnings lists.

So when the youngest of the clan, Kylie Jenner, sold 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics to beauty giant Coty in a deal valued at $1.2 billion this January, it was a watershed moment for the family. One of the greatest celebrity cash-outs of all time, the transaction seemed to confirm what Kylie had been saying all along and in March 2019: that Kylie Jenner was, indeed, a billionaire—at least before the coronavirus.

When we visited Kylie Jenner in 2018, she claimed her cosmetics company was on track to sell more than $300 million in makeup that year. In reality? It only did $125 million.

Jamel Toppin for Forbes “Kylie is a modern-day icon, with an incredible sense of the beauty consumer,” Coty chairman Peter Harf gushed when announcing the acquisition in November.

But in the deal’s fine print, a less flattering truth emerged. Filings released by publicly traded Coty over the past six months lay bare one of the family’s best-kept secrets: Kylie’s business is significantly smaller, and less profitable, than the family has spent years leading the cosmetics industry and media outlets, including Forbes, to believe.

Of course, white lies, omissions and outright fabrications are to be expected from the family that perfected—then monetized—the concept of “famous for being famous.” But, similar to with his net worth, the unusual lengths to which the Jenners have been willing to go—including inviting Forbes into their mansions and CPA’s offices, and even creating tax returns that were likely forged—reveals just how desperate some of the ultra-rich are to look even richer.

“It’s fair to say that everything the Kardashian-Jenner family does is oversized,” says Stephanie Wissink, an equity analyst covering consumer products at Jefferies. “To stay on-brand, it needs to be bigger than it is.”

Based on this new information—plus the impact of Covid-19 on beauty stocks and consumer spending—Forbes now thinks that Kylie Jenner, even after pocketing an estimated $340 million after taxes from the sale, is not a billionaire.

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As with other Kardashian ventures, Kylie’s business began as a way to cash in on a minor scandal. The youngest of the family, she spent more than a year denying tabloid speculation that she was using lip filler injections before eventually finally fessing up to it in May 2015. Far from being embarrassed about being caught in a lie, she—and her shrewd mother, Kris—seized it as a marketing opportunity.

With $250,000 of her earnings from modeling, endorsements and Keeping Up With The Kardashians appearances, Kylie launched her first batch of 15,000 lip kits, consisting of a lip liner and matching lipstick, in November 2015. Thanks to clever Instagram marketing, the $29 kits were gone in less than a minute. "Before I even refreshed the page, everything was sold out," she later .

Reality TV made the Kardashian-Jenner family wildly famous—but how they leveraged that fame through their businesses, ranging from mobile games to makeup, is how they amassed most of their fortunes.

E! Entertainment By the end of 2016, Kylie had dozens of new products and a reputation as a skyrocketing new entrant in the cosmetics industry. A few months after her sister Kim Kardashian West scored in July 2016, Jenner publicists began a campaign to “get a Forbes cover for Kylie.” Revenues were $400 million over the business’ first 18 months, they said, with a personal take-home pay of $250 million for Kylie. Pressed for proof, they opened up their books. During meetings at Kris Jenner’s palatial Hidden Hills, California, estate and the family accountant’s office nearby, Forbes was shown tax returns detailing $307 million in 2016 revenues and personal income of more than $110 million for Kylie that year. It would have been enough to put her at N0. 2 on the Celebrity 100 list, behind only Taylor Swift, the accountant was quick to point out. But the documents, despite looking authentic and bearing Kylie Jenner’s signature, weren’t exactly convincing since the story they told, of e-commerce brand Kylie Cosmetics growing from nothing to $300 million in sales in a single year, was hard to believe.

After speaking with a handful of analysts and industry experts who also found the Jenners’ claims implausible, we settled on a more reasonable estimate for our 2017 Celebrity 100 list: $41 million in overall earnings for Kylie, . Kris was “so frustrated,” the Jenners’ PR flack shot back. “We’ve done so much.”

Two months later, , a trade publication known as “the bible of fashion,” using the exact numbers the Jenners first tried to give Forbes. “There has been raging speculation about the size of her business, with guesstimates ranging from $50 million up to $300 million,” the story reads. “Well, here’s the bad news for more-established beauty players: Jenner’s surpassed the higher figure with ease. Kylie Cosmetics actually has done $420 million in retail sales—in just 18 months—Kris Jenner revealed. . . . ” It was the first time the Jenners had publicly disclosed the size of the business, the story boasted—“and they provided WWD with documentation.”

That sky-high revenue number—repeated everywhere from to and —took hold. By the summer of 2018, when Forbes set out to calculate Kylie’s net worth for our list of the richest self-made women, the industry’s opinion of Kylie’s business had shifted. Those huge revenues were “totally possible,” said one analyst, adding that she had heard similar numbers herself. Another suggested revenues were around $350 million. The estimates kept climbing. Revenues were $400 million, according to a Piper Jaffray research note in 2018. An Oppenheimer report projected sales would top $700 million by 2020.

Jenner on the August 31, 2018 issue of Forbes

Forbes The Jenners offered us their own number: 2017 revenues were up 7%, they said, to $330 million. “No other influencer has ever gotten to the volume or had the rabid fans and consistency that Kylie has had for the last two and a half years,” an executive at e-commerce platform Shopify, which manages Kylie’s online store, told Forbes at the time. Based on her rapid success—certified by industry sources, plus those 2016 tax returns—Kylie appeared on in July 2018, ranking No. 27 on our listing of the richest self-made women. At age 20, she was worth $900 million, we estimated, and would soon become the youngest self-made billionaire ever.

“Thank you for this article and the recognition,” . Kim Kardashian West tweeted her congratulations—twice. “I am SO proud,” Kris Jenner wrote, finally pleased.

The next month Kylie celebrated her 21st birthday at West Hollywood nightclub Delilah, in a Barbie-themed blowout complete with a pink ball pit, performances by Travis Scott and Dave Chappelle—and bartenders in black T-shirts with Kylie’s Forbes cover printed on them, her face plastered next to the words “America’s Women Billionaires.” By early the next year, .

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Any doubts that Kylie wasn’t a billionaire were seemingly erased in November 2019, when $8.6 billion (revenues) Coty announced it was snapping up 51% of Kylie Cosmetics for $600 million, effectively valuing the business at about $1.2 billion. The deal gave the struggling 116-year-old Coty a hip, social media-savvy brand to help turn around its sagging balance sheet. It gave Kylie a major chance at expansion, plus a boatload of cash and apparently clear proof of her billionaire status.

In a call with stock analysts, Coty’s chief financial officer heralded the deal as “a compelling financial equation” that would help “make Coty a modern, growing and profitable beauty player.” The analysts were immediately skeptical. It looked like Coty was paying way too much for a celebrity brand that could prove to be just a fad, one charged. Another asked how Coty could be sure Kylie will remain committed to promoting the business in the years to come.

Then there were Kylie’s financials. Revenues over a 12-month period preceding the deal: $177 million, according to the Coty presentation—far lower than the published estimates at the time. More problematic, Coty said that sales were up 40% from 2018, meaning the business only generated about $125 million that year, nowhere near the $360 million the Jenners had led Forbes to believe. Kylie’s skin care line, which launched in May 2019, did $100 million in revenues in its first month and a half, Kylie’s reps told us. The filings show the line was actually “on track” to finish the year with just $25 million in sales.

“I think everybody was surprised,” says Wissink, the Jefferies analyst, who was on the call. “The negative that came out of that announcement was that the business was a lot smaller than everybody had expected.”

So much smaller, in fact, that there’s virtually no way the numbers the Jenners were peddling in earlier years could be true either. If Kylie Cosmetics did $125 million in sales in 2018, how could it have done $307 million in 2016 (as the company’s supposed tax returns state) or $330 million in 2017?

Kylie's signature Lip Kits, which consist of a lipstick and a matching lip liner, were first released in late 2015 and sold out in minutes. She now sells them both online and in Ulta stores.

Getty Images One explanation: Kylie’s business quietly fell by more than half in a single year. If so, Coty paid up for a “high-growth” brand that is actually a much smaller business than it was just a few years ago. (Coty would not answer any questions about Kylie Cosmetics for this story.) Data from e-commerce firm Rakuten, which tracks a select number of receipts, suggests there was a 62% decline in Kylie’s online sales between 2016 and 2018.

Still, virtually every industry expert polled by Forbes thinks the business couldn’t have collapsed by so much so quickly. “It seems unlikely that much revenue could have evaporated overnight," says Evercore analyst Omar Saad. “There doesn’t seem to be any evidence the business has cratered,” adds cosmetics veteran Jeffrey Ten, who has led companies like Note Cosmetics, Nyx and Calvin Klein Beauty. “If so, why would Coty buy it?”

More likely: The business was never that big to begin with, and the Jenners have lied about it every year since 2016—including having their accountant draft tax returns with false numbers—to help juice Forbes’ estimates of Kylie’s earnings and net worth. While we can’t prove that those documents were fake (though it’s likely), it’s clear that Kylie’s camp has been lying.

There’s also the issue of profit: Forbes had been estimating that her business, which has little overhead, was notching 44% net margins. But Coty’s filings indicate that Kylie’s profits are likely lower than we figured, since her Ebitda margin—which factors in some, but not all, of her expenses—is only around 25%.

Kris Jenner, the Kardashian-Jenner family matriarch, helps guide her daughters through business decisions—for a price. She takes 10% of their earnings, including an estimated $60 million haul, pretax, from the Coty sale.

Getty Images For years, the Jenners insisted that all of those profits went directly to Kylie because she owned the business outright. But Coty’s purchase agreement specifically lists a “KMJ 2018 Irrevocable Trust,” controlled by Kristen M. Jenner, as owning a profit interest in Kylie Cosmetics. Upon the sale, the document says the trust would get a capital, or ownership, interest in the company. The Jenners initially told Forbes that the trust holds money Kylie Jenner earned before she turned 18 and that Kylie is its beneficiary. But the trust appears to have been created well after Kylie turned 18, and the Jenners declined to offer any proof to back up their claims. Given the lack of clarity—and the history of lies—we’re erring on the side of caution and assuming that the trust belongs to Kris Jenner. That means Kylie Jenner owns an estimated 44.1% of Kylie Cosmetics, rather than 49%.

“You have to remember they are in the entertainment business,” says Ten. “Everything in entertainment has to be exaggerated to get attention.”

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Taking all this new information into account and factoring in the pandemic, Forbes has recalculated Kylie’s net worth and concluded that she is not a billionaire. A more realistic accounting of her personal fortune puts it at just under $900 million, despite the headlines surrounding the Coty deal that seemed to confirm her billionaire status. More than a third of that is the estimated $340 million in post-tax cash she would have pocketed from selling a majority of her company. The rest is made up of revised earnings based on her business’ smaller size and a more conservative estimate of its profitability, plus the value of her remaining share of Kylie Cosmetics—which is not only smaller than the Jenners led us to believe but is also worth less now than it was when the deal was announced in November, given the economic effects of the coronavirus.

Coty’s share price has fallen more than 60% since the deal was struck, and even better-performing competitors like Ulta Beauty and Estée Lauder are still down single digits. Add that to the fact that Wall Street tends to think Coty paid too much to begin with and there is no way to realistically peg Kylie’s net worth above a billion—despite her massive cash-out.

As usual, we asked the Jenners for input on our numbers. But pressed for answers on the many discrepancies, the typically chatty family did something out of character: They stopped answering our questions.

Additional reporting by Chloe Sorvino and Natalie Robehmed

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Kylie JennerJenner in 2017BornKylie Kristen Jenner August 10, 1997 , , U.S.Education OccupationYears active2007–presentPartner(s) (2014–2017) (2017–2019)Children1Parent(s)RelativesWebsiteKylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American media personality and businesswoman. She has starred in the reality television series since 2007 and is the founder and owner of cosmetic company .

At age 14 in 2012, she collaborated with the clothing brand , along with her sister , and created a line of clothing, "Kendall & Kylie". In 2015, Jenner launched her own cosmetics line called Kylie Lip Kits, which was renamed to Kylie Cosmetics the following year. She also released a that reached number one on the .

In 2014 and 2015, magazine listed the Jenner sisters on their list of the most influential teens in the world, citing their considerable influence among youth on social media. As of November 2019, with over 150 million followers, she is one of the on . In 2017, Jenner was placed on the list, making her the youngest person to be featured on the list. Jenner starred on her own spin-off series, , which premiered on E! on August 6, 2017. In November 2018, credited her for being the most influential celebrity in the fashion industry.

According to , in 2019, Jenner's net worth was estimated at 1 billion, making her, at age 21, the world's youngest billionaire as of March 2019, though the notion of Jenner being self-made is a subject of controversy, owing to her privileged background. In May 2020, however, Forbes released a statement accusing Jenner of forging tax documents so she would appear as a billionaire. The publication also accused her of fabricating revenue figures for Kylie Cosmetics.

Contents Early life Jenner was born in 1997 in , . The youngest daughter of winner Bruce Jenner (now ) and TV personality , she has an older sister, . On Kris's side of the family, she has three older , , and , and one older , . Jenner also has three older half-brothers from Caitlyn's side of the family—Burt, , and —and an older half-sister, Casey.

Jenner attended , where she was a member of the team. Jenner claims to have performed in plays while attending school, along with community plays. In 2012, she became and enrolled in an at-home education program, from which she graduated with a in July 2015 from in .

Career 2007–2012: Keeping Up with the Kardashians In 2007, Jenner, along with , Kendall, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob, began appearing in the reality television series , which chronicles the personal and professional lives of their family members. The series was successful for its network, , and has resulted in the creation of numerous including , , , and , in which Jenner has made multiple guest appearances. The sisters hosted at the Regency Village Theater in in August 2011, In 2011, they were featured in Seventeen magazine's Style Stars of the Year, and selected them as "Style Ambassadors" for the magazine. The two hosted the premiere of in in February 2012. The Jenners also interviewed the cast of premiere in the at The Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles in March 2012. Later in 2012, she starred alongside her sister Kendall and mother in an episode of American reality television series .

2013–2014: Early endorsements Jenner has two nail lacquers from the nail polish brand called Wear Something Spar-kylie and Rainbow in the S-kylie. Kendall and Kylie earned $100,000 each for their OPI endorsements in 2013.

On November 15, 2013, the Jenner sisters announced that they would launch The Kendall & Kylie Collection with PacSun which launched in February 2013. Since its conception, the sisters have released several collections for this line. In July 2013, the Jenner sisters launched a jewelry line with Pascal Mouawad's Glamhouse to create the Metal Haven by Kendall & Kylie jewelry collection.

Jenner set up an account where she auctions old clothing to raise money for the . Jenner joined her family in a charity yard sale on November 10, 2013. Proceeds from the sale were donation-matched and sent to : No Kid Hungry and the . She joined Khloé, Kendall, , and at PINZ bowling alley in Studio City, California for a charity bowling game on January 19, 2014. The event was held to raise money for , a nonprofit for which The Game pledged to raise $1 million in donations. The Jenner sisters participated in singer 's two Kick'n It For Charity Celebrity Kickball games in Glendale, California on July 19, 2014 and on August 16, 2014. At the first game, she competed on actor/singer Quincy Brown's team.

In February 2014, she and Kendall launched a shoe and handbag line for 's Madden Girl line. The Jenner sisters co-hosted the 2014 , where Kylie made her acting debut in a promo for the show in , Canada, in June 2014. In August 2014, the Jenner sisters appeared in singer 's "Recognize" music video. Jenner and her sister Kendall co-authored the dystopian science fiction novel , which revolved around two twin girls, Lex and Livia, in a "self-sustaining biosphere" put together from the remains of Earth known as Indra. The novel was criticized upon release as a ghostwritten work, which prompted its ghostwriter Maya Sloan to reveal that while the Jenner sisters wrote a two-page outline for what they wanted the novel to be like, Sloan was truly responsible for the writing of the book. However, the Jenners' creative director, Elizabeth Killmond-Roman, clarified that the two had numerous and calls with Sloan to discuss the content of the novel. The novel was mostly panned by critics, and sold only 13,000 copies in its first four months on sale. The book was also given a sequel, Time of the Twins, which was also co-authored by the Jenner sisters. Jenner launched a line of hair extensions through a partnership with Bellami Hair, called Kylie Hair Kouture, in October 2014.

2015–2018: Rise of Kylie Cosmetics Jenner being interviewed for Nip + Fab in 2015Jenner became skincare brand Nip + Fab's second-ever ambassador in March 2015.

The Jenner sisters were booed while introducing brother-in-law 's performance at the in May 2015. In May 2015, an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered in which Jenner admitted to getting a . Her enhanced lips from lip fillers created speculation and gained her publicity. Prior to the episode's debut, Jenner stated that she merely used lip liner and over lined her lips. As a result, the practice of suctioning one's lips into a small glass in order to induce greater blood flow to swell the lips was called the "Kylie Jenner Challenge" (though there was no indication that Jenner herself employed this method). Jenner responded to this by stating, "I'm not here to try & encourage people/young girls to look like me or to think this is the way they should look." In June 2015, the Jenner sisters launched their clothing line Kendall + Kylie with British fashion retailer . This Topshop clothing line also featured swimsuits. In August 2015, Jenner announced that she would be launching her first lipstick line as a part of her self-titled lip kit under the name Kylie Lip Kit. In September 2015, Jenner launched her new personalized website and . In October 2015, Jenner starred in 's music video for his song "Dope'd Up".In December 2015, Jenner made a donation of Christmas gifts to the Los Angeles LGBT Teen Center.

In February 2016, Jenner's cosmetic company was renamed to and the number of kits produced rose from an initial 15,000 to 500,000. Jenner released a three-minute-long promotional video for a series of lip glosses in March 2016, directed by and starring fellow models Karin Jinsui, , and Jasmine Sanders. The song in the video was revealed to be "Three Strikes" by , a band created on the same day as the release of the video; however, the lead singer, who was later revealed to be singer Lisa Vatale, was heavily speculated to be Jenner herself. However, Jenner subsequently denied any involvement with the band. In May 2016, she made her musical debut rapping on producer 's song "", with , model Jordyn Woods, and . In fall of 2016, Jenner was announced to be the new face of along with . In April 2017, she made a surprise appearance at the prom in alongside junior Albert Ochoa after hearing that his date had turned him down.

In June 2017, Jenner announced two new cosmetics sets in collaboration with her sister Khloe Kardashian and the Kylie Cosmetics KoKo collection. Later that month, Jenner was accused of stealing designs for a series of camouflage items released on her online store from independent design label PluggedNYC, whose creative director supported the claims. Later that June, Jenner was placed at number 59 on the , which calculates the 100 highest-paid celebrities of the previous 12 months, after earning approximately US$41,000,000, making her the youngest person on the list at 19 years old. Jenner collaborated with -based brand Quay Australia to release a line of sunglasses, Quay x Kylie. In 2018, the company Kylie Cosmetics has reportedly sold about $630 million worth of makeup.

Jenner stars in a reality show revolving around her life, , which premiered in August 2017.

2019–present: Debut of Kylie Skin In April 2019, Jenner and her sister Kim Kardashian's KKW Beauty teamed up to launch a new fragrance. This collaboration became Jenner's first foray into fragrance and it launched on April 26. Jenner founded her own skincare brand which was launched on May 22. The brand began producing products, including face washes, scrubs, moisturizers and makeup removing wipes. In September, Jenner announced that she was serving as the makeup artistic director for Balmain's Spring 2020 runway show at . To celebrate the new line, Kylie Cosmetics and launched a capsule makeup collection and available on September 27, the day of the show, on the Kylie Cosmetics website. This is marked the first time Jenner collaborated on a makeup collection with someone outside of her family's inner circle.

However, her appearance at was cancelled because she was too ill to travel to Paris for work and received treatment for flu-like symptoms in a hospital. In October 2019, Jenner filed to trademark the phrase "rise and shine," a line that became a meme when footage of Jenner singing the phrase to her 1-year-old daughter, Stormi, went viral. The hashtag #RiseandShine reached one billion views on , making it the platform's fastest-growing hashtag trend. In addition to the standard "rise and shine," Jenner also wants to trademark "riiise and shiiinnee." The latter trademark would cover clothing while the former would also apply to cosmetics.

In January 2020, Jenner had announced she has the following brands Kylie Con Kylie Kon Kylie Museum for more profit for being the world's youngest billionaire.

As of April 8, 2020, Jenner remains the world’s youngest self-made billionaire for a second year in a row.

Personal life Jenner dated rapper , from 2014 to 2017. Jenner has one daughter with rapper , who she dated from April 2017 to September 2019.

Wealth In March 2019, Magazine included Jenner on its list of billionaires. Apart from her TV career that began with Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jenner's bulk wealth also comes from her make-up company, , valued at $900 million.

Controversies Kendall + Kylie "Rock vs. Rap" collection On June 28, 2017, the Jenner sisters announced that they would be releasing a line of vintage T-shirts for their Kendall + Kylie line of clothing called Rock vs. Rap, featuring the likenesses of various and artists including , , , , , , and , with pictures of the Jenner sisters superimposed over them. The announcement of this line of products was met with swift backlash from relatives and representatives of the figures depicted on the shirts themselves, including , Jim Jampol, and Voletta Wallace, mother of Biggie Smalls. They were also criticized on social media and were called "insensitive." Wallace, ' manager and the estate of issued a letter to the Jenner sisters, writing that they did not authorize the sisters' use of the likenesses of these musical icons. The Jenners apologized for the shirts, and pulled them from retail.

Forbes cover Jenner appeared on the cover of the August 2018 issue of . They estimated that she had a net worth of $900 million, and that she was on the verge of becoming the youngest "self-made" billionaire. This would beat out , who became a billionaire at age 23. However, the publication's use of the term "self-made" sparked widespread criticism and jokes online. Critics argued that Jenner was already born into fame and fortune. The Dictionary.com Twitter handle cheekily defined the term "self-made." Comedian started a page to help Kylie Jenner earn another $100 million so that she would officially become a billionaire. Comedian had a viral stand-up comedy act related to how Jenner earned her fame and success. Some discussions took a more serious tone, with journalists writing pieces on wealth distribution, inequality and inheritance, as well as upward mobility in society. However, celebrities such as Jenner's half-sister and socialite have come out and defended Jenner, legitimizing assertions that she is indeed self-made, while Hilton also described herself as self-made. Jenner responded that "The self-made thing is true ... My parents told me I needed to make my own money, it's time to learn how to save and spend your own money, stuff like that. What I'm trying to say is, I did have a platform, but none of my money is inherited". In May 2020, however, Forbes released a statement accusing Jenner of forging tax documents so she would appear as a billionaire. The publication also accused her of fabricating revenue figures for .

Lawsuits and civil disputes "Kylie" trademark In February 2017, Australian singer won a legal battle against Jenner for name trademark "Kylie". Jenner had filed a U.S. trademark application for use of the name "Kylie" for "advertising services" and "endorsement services" in 2015.

Vlada Haggarty In January 2017, make-up artist Vlada Haggarty claimed that Jenner had stolen the creative style and aesthetic of her own work, such as the dripping gloss lip and golden finger tips, for her own products, and that Jenner had a history of taking Haggerty's original dripping lip art and passing it off as her own. Jenner later credited Vlada on social media and her work on the creation of the logo and an undisclosed settlement was paid to avoid any future legal issues.

Neon lip logo Sara Pope, a British painter whose work has been featured in art galleries in several cities across the globe, filed a lawsuit against Jenner and for the use of a neon lip logo. Pope stated that Jenner posted to her social media accounts an image that was remarkably similar to Pope's most famous piece, "Temptation Neon" and used it to promote Jenner's TV series Life of Kylie. TMZ reported that the production art created for the series, including the lip design, was created by a third party designer.

Filmography Television As herselfYearTitleNotesRef.2007–presentMain cast2010, 20132 episodes2012Episode: "Kris Jenner"2012Million Dollar ClosetsEpisode: "Pilot"2014Episode: "Kendall & Kylie & Gary Owens"2014Co-host20141 episode2014Episode: "Kendall and Kylie Jenner"2015–20163 episodes2015Episode: "The Life"2017Main castMusic videos YearTitleArtistRoleRef.2013"Find That Girl"Boy Band ProjectLove interest2014"Recognize" (featuring )Herself"Blue Ocean"Herself2015"Stimulated"Love interest"Dope'd Up"Love interest"I'm Yours" (featuring )Karaoke singer2016"Come and See Me"PartyNextDoorLove interest2018"Stop Trying To Be God"Travis ScottGolden angel2020"" andHerselfFilm As an actressYearTitleRoleNotesRef.2018CameoAwards and nominations YearAssociationCategoryResultRef2013 (shared with female cast of Keeping Up)Won2014 (shared with female cast of Keeping Up)Nominated2015Choice InstagrammerNominatedNominated2016Snapchatter Of The YearNominated2017 CelebrityNominatedChoice InstagrammerNominatedChoice SnapchatterNominated2019Choice Social StarNominatedNotes References External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to .Kylie Jennerat Wikipedia's [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1] Retrieved from "": Hidden categories:

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