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Kardashians Taking Sweatshop Claims "Very Seriously," Family Publicist Says
Posted on Wed Dec 21, 2011 02:05 PM PDT
The Kardashians are not staying quiet regarding claims that they've been using Chinese sweatshops to manufacture products.
Jill Fritzo, the Kardashian's rep, issued the following statement:
- "This is the first we are hearing about it and take it very seriously as we would never condone this. We are presently investigating the situation."
Star magazine is reporting that the family's successful clothing brand was created in foreign sweatshops using child labor. According to the report, the workers are as young as sixteen years old and are being abused and imprisoned against their will.
The Kardashians earned a reported $65 million last year.
Do you think the Kardashians knew about these conditions?
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Comments
Shocked! Shocked I tell you, and every store and person involved in this will be sued and responsible for all expenses, profits we lost..
Didn't Kim work as a stylist for Parasite, and like she is unaware this slave labor in the clothing industry happens with The National Labor Committee found that sweatshop labor was used to make clothes for Kathie Lee Gifford's Wal-Mart line then and she is their aunt of godmother.. it happens..
The Kardashian's are only now taking this story seriously because it has become public knowledge and they don't want to lose profits and get bad publicity. Am I supposed to believe that Kris Jenner didn't know where her products were produced? Kris Jenner is all about the money and has proven she will imp out her own children foe money. If the Kardashian's are so concerned about the welfare of others then they should give their profits to the abused children that are enslaved to manufacture their products.
The Kardashian's are only now taking this story seriously because it has become public knowledge and they don't want to lose profits and get bad publicity. Am I supposed to believe that Kris Jenner didn't know where her products were produced? Kris Jenner is all about the money and has proven she will pimp out her own children for money. If the Kardashian's are so concerned about the welfare of others then they should give their profits to the abused children that are enslaved to manufacture their products.
GO AWAY 2012 DISGUSTING FAMILY
boycott little e channel and little ryan seacrest
Kathis Lee Gifford is cutting ties with this family as we speak..It was a very big deal for her years ago using a sweat shop and now the K-Trash. Kathie Lee also rolled her eyes when she suggested Kim and Kris Humphries should go for marriage counseling when she saw Kris Jenner's face suggesting "that ain't happening".
The Kardashians probably planted this story, for their fake reality show.
Of course they are talking it seriously --- NOW THAT IT'S MADE NEWS. They disgust me. I'm not only disgusted at this point, I'm sad, we don't live in a cruel world... we just live amongst cruel people.
See, what did I tell you - child abusers!!!
MMMMM KHLOE WANT CHINESE FOOD NOW!
Don't even try to pretend like you 3 morons didn't know about the sweatshops!!!!! Thought you were such savvy business women!!!! SOULESS stains on society,
i just popped a nut looking at kourtneys sexy legs
so the "hands on" Kardashian girls didn't know!! So sick of people who choose to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others while they make a massive profit. Of course they are going to deny knowing till their last breath. This is a serious allegation and in the Kardashian case, they already mistreat people they know and supposedly care about so "kids overseas" making their products, they are most certainly going to get to the bottom of this, now that they "know" and make it right. I hope that means retroactive pay to all of those people kids and adults that were used to increase the Kardasian profit margin. They most certainly knew, Kris Jenner brags that she has her hand on the pulse of the Kardashian business, she looked away, they all did.
now THIS is evil,i can npt belive i watched their show. AND Kim looks like aplastic hoe,i seriously hate her now,and i boycott everything they say or do from now on. FAIL!
Of coarse they're turning their heads! The same way their dad turned his head to help get Simpson off. They're all a bunch of money hungry greedy crooks! There's not much they won't put others through, or do, for enough money. What a shame people are too stupid to stop feeding them. No way will I ever watch them again.
The whip cracker Kardashian's
If these chicks are seen so often wearing clothes like they work out in the gym all the time then why don't ANY of them have calves in those legs?
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the real and practical thing to do is to "not watch" their show, do not buy any of their products, then they'll die naturally
This family is trash. Dad helped a man who murdered two people in cold blood. Kim is famous because she likes getting pissed on. Whats with the giant girl? Did mommy Kris step out on her hubby? All freaks. They need to go down.
Khloe is the big ugly hungry black sausage eater.
King Kong Khloe
Khloe Kong
what is this tall miss piggy doing there?
MAYBE SHE LISTENED TO THE NAME OF "khloe"?
Pictures of Kim always make me have to pee.
The pervert sisters
THREE UGLY GIRLS AND I HAVE SEEN THOSE CHEAP UGLY CLOTHES IN THE STORE, I WOULD NOT BUY THAT TRASH, IT IS TRASH JUST LIKE THEM, THEY WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY, THEIR MOTHER IS A BIG PUSS FACE, MODERN DAY TRAMPS.
Child abusers!
While you are at it, check out where Avril Lavigne and Gwen Stefani get the materials for their clothes and/or where they are manufactured. I am sure most of you are wearing clothes made by Malaysian orphans. I do not give a crp about this family, but if you really want to take action on this serious issue....look at your own clothes tag.
The Kardashian Family = No Morals, No Class, No Talent.
Let's go Seacrest produce something worth while.
The Kardashian family is preparing for war -- gearing up to unleash a legal attack on everyone who claimed their clothing line is manufactured in child slave labor sweat shops in China ... TMZ has learned.
Kardashian Family Insider Not Surprised By Sweatshop Scandal, Claims Kardashians 'Will Do Anything For Profit'. Radar reports.
China Labor Watch On Sweatshop Scandal: 'The Kardashians Are Lying'
"If the Kardashians say they don't know how bad the situation is, they're lying," Li Qiang, the executive director of China Labor Watch, tells Radar
With apologies to Sesame Street -
"One of these sisters doesn't belong here. One of these sisters isn't the same..."
It's a baby boy for ex-New York Congressman Anthony Weiner and wife Huma Abedin, who welcomed son Jordan Zane Weiner on Wednesday.
The tot arrived 10 days early -- Abedin was due to deliver the child December 31 -- and weighed in at more than 7 pounds, the New York Post reported.
Former American Idol star Adam Lambert was arrested following a fight with his boyfriend outside a Helsinki, Finland bar on Thursday.
Lambert, 29, and boyfriend Sauli Koskinen, 26, got into the altercation outside a gay bar called Don't Tell Momma, according to Finnish reports. When patrons outside the establishment tried to stop the altercation, Lambert attacked them as well, though no one was injured.
Koskinen, also a TV star, won Finland’s 2007 edition of the reality competition Big Brother.
Lambert, who finished second in 2009's American Idol competition to Kris Allen, was still in custody at a facility in Pasila, while Sauli was held at a jail in Toolo.
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when will america get enough of this family...it is time to boycott everything they produce!!!
Too dumb and dishonest to speak for themselves.
Boycott this family and everything their name is attached to, only then will they go away.
Most clothes these days are made in Chinese or Indian sweatshops how else will they make their profit - this aint new
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starting to feel like the karadashian are starting to get in the S*%ts more and more!
Kardashians are in hot water over their heads...even if they were not being made in a sweat shop(clothes) that is...the bigger issue is why not use our garment workers to make their clothes , lord only knows we need to employ our people first, the ones who pay all the money for your products so u can get richer......keep it in the USA.......HOW DARE U TURN YOUR BACK ON USA ,SO U CAN MAKE MANY MORE MILLIONS IN SLAVE TRADE HOUSES IN CHINA....PUT YOUR DAUGHTERS IN THE PLACE WHER YOUR CLOTHES ARE BEING MADE FOR ONE WEEK....LETS SEE HOW SAFE IT IS OVER THERE...THATS FAIR ......M
BRAVO KIM!! KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER! I CANNOT BELIEVE THE ACCUSATIONS! THE CHARACTER ASSASINATIONS THAT YOUR ENEMIES HAVE UPON YOU! KEEP YOUR HEAD UP KIM I KNOW THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE FALSE AND YOU ONLY SUPPORT UNION WAGED WORKERS IN THOSE CHINESE FACTORIES. I HEARD YOU'RE OFFERING INCENTIVES AND PROMOTION BASED ON A MERIT SYSTEM. I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW PEOPLE CHARACTERIZE GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICES WITH THE STEREOTYPES OF SWEAT SHOP LABOUR. I EXPECTED MORE FROM THE COMPETITION NOW WE SEE THAT THE KK BRAND IS A THREAT TO THE EVER SHRINKING AMERICAN MARKETS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK KIM! SOME OF US SEE THROUGH THE LIES!