Here's What Really Happened To All The Kardashians' Exes

The following article includes mentions of domestic abuse allegations and addiction.

The Kardashian-Jenner clan has long made headlines for the famous faces they have dated. Outside of their very busy careers, the stars have been known to get together with influential rappers, a slew of top athletes, and even pop stars. With each family member's storied history of high-profile romances, theories of a "Kardashian Curse" began to form, as those who became close to the reality TV royals were believed to be jinxed and their lives left in disarray. 

Kylie Jenner acknowledged her family's "curse" by once sharing on an episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" (via The U.S. Sun), "The Kardashian curse is every male figure that comes and dates a Kardashian. Their life kind of just goes downhill after that." She later told GQ that some of these exes aren't equipped to take on the massive fame each of her sisters and brother Rob Kardashian have acquired, adding, "But it's not just men — it's friends, it's people who come and just don't know how to handle it."

However, while conspiracy theorists are making up curses about this famous family, the breakups were certainly real, and fans watched first-hand on "KUWTK" just how difficult and messy some of these former romances became by the end. We're diving into the exes of Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian, as well as those of Kendall and Kylie Jenner, so get ready for a long list worth the read. This is what happened to those who dated a KarJenner family member. 

After divorcing her first husband, Damon Thomas, Kim Kardashian dated R&B singer Ray J from 2005 to 2007. At the end of their relationship, a sex tape the two stars made in 2003 was leaked — and was considered the tape that launched Kardashian's career. According to Page Six, Kardashian filed a lawsuit against the company that was to release the tape, but later settled. That same year, she and her soon-to-be-famous family would release the very first season of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

After admitting that she was on ecstasy when she married Thomas, Kardashian also shocked her family on a 2018 episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" when she shared she was high on the same drug when she made her infamous sex tape. "Absolutely, everyone knows it. Like, my jaw was shaking the whole time," she stated (via People).

When Ray J released his 2012 book "Death of a Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must Know About Men Who Stray," he appeared to talk about Kardashian when referring to a former romance with a woman he named "KK," per Page Six. The rapper claimed that "KK" cheated on her husband and pursued him, adding that the two had "extreme sexual chemistry." However, they broke up due to infidelity on both sides, as well as her supposedly jealous ways. In 2016, Ray J married "Love & Hip Hop Hollywood" star Princess Love, with whom he shares two children. However, TMZ reported that Love filed for divorce in 2020. 

Kim Kardashian began dating former NFL player Reggie Bush in 2007, and things between the couple were on and off until they eventually called it quits in 2010. According to InStyle, they initially ended things in 2009 because of their busy careers and reconciled the following year, but ultimately decided to go their separate ways. Unlike Kardashian's past relationships, the two seemed to be on good terms after their split.

In an old clip from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," the reality star broke down in tears during a photoshoot and admitted that she would have given it all up to be with Bush. "I just really don't care about my career anymore. I feel like it's cost me my relationship," she shared. Bush explained to ESPN that by dating Kardashian, a lot of media attention followed, adding, "Then all the other stuff came. The gossip magazines and ... the ugly side of it."

In 2014, Bush went on to marry Lilit Avagyan, who some feel eerily resembles Kardashian, and the couple share three children. In 2017, he officially retired from the NFL. "I've been able to enjoy more time with our family and just being able to do things that I normally wouldn't be able to be here for," he later shared with People. "For 20-plus years, most of my time was devoted to a single sport. Now I get an opportunity to be home, and to find a new passion and keep my focus on top of my family."

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's marriage was officially over when the reality star was declared legally single in March 2022. This came just over a year after Kardashian filed for divorce from the rapper in February 2021, after over six years of marriage. The couple share four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.  

West had not made the divorce proceedings easy for the SKIMS founder. According to the Los Angeles Times, he took to social media to lash out at his ex-wife over her parenting of their children, especially their eldest daughter, North, and made several distasteful remarks about Kardashian's new beau, "Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson. NBC News reported that West's seemingly erratic social posts had caused the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star "emotional distress," with the star adding, "I believe that the court terminating our marital status will help Kanye to accept that our marital relationship is over and to move forward on a better path which will assist us in peacefully co-parenting our children."

Despite pleading with Kardashian for reconciliation during their divorce proceedings, West continued to make headlines for his Paris Fashion Week outings with Julia Fox. As of this writing, West is dating Chaney Jones, with the model having made things official on her Instagram in March 2022.

After Kourtney Kardashian split with Scott Disick and before she made things official by getting engaged to Travis Barker, the reality star was linked to model Younes Bendjima. According to Us Weekly, the pair dated on-and-off from late 2016 until 2020, and while the press snapped several photos of them during their outings, Kourtney kept her relationship with Bendjima private. The star refused to talk about Bendjima on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," which bothered both sisters Khloé and Kim Kardashian.

During the show's 2021 reunion, Khloé Kardashian called Kourtney out, sharing, "We're not saying to put him on, but Kourtney wouldn't even let us mention [him], even though there's paparazzi photos. So we were frustrated that we couldn't even talk about what Kourtney was doing." It also seemed like the Kardashian-Jenner clan were not fans of Bendjima, either. During the reunion, host Andy Cohen mentioned to Disick, "It seems like you get really upset when Kourtney is linked to other guys." Disick replied, "Me? No." Going on to quip, "I just want to kill them," he added in reference to Bendjima, "Well, the last guy. Let's all be honest here." Khloé agreed with Disick, stating, "Nobody was happy with the last one."

Life & Style reported that the duo's split was due to their age difference, with Kourtney 14 years older than Bendjima. However, Khloé had other alleged reasonings behind their breakup, sharing via Twitter, "He was sooooooo toxic and negative for Kourt." 

In 2014, Khloé Kardashian had a brief romance with rapper French Montana after she split from her ex-husband, Lamar Odom. Although their relationship was short-lived, the two have kept in touch and have remained on good terms. 

In an interview with Haute Living in 2019, Montana talked about his relationship with the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star, stating, "Me and Khloé are always going to be friends, and the family still remains close. I feel like we had a real dope relationship. There was no bad blood, nobody did something to somebody that we couldn't come back from. The love was real." He added, "Friendship after a relationship is something that's real hard to do, and I'm glad we've been able to do it." 

According to In Touch, the rapper was present at Khloé's sister Kourtney Kardashian's 40th birthday bash that same year, proving that not all breakups have to end on a sour note. After having dated the Kardashian-Jenner sister, Montana dated another reality TV star, Evelyn Lozada of "Basketball Wives," in 2017, but they split a year later, per The Blast. 

Khloé Kardashian's relationship with basketball player Tristan Thompson is notoriously a rocky one. The two began dating in 2016, with Kardashian sharing in Season 13 of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" (via Us Weekly), "He wants to have, like, five or six kids with me, and that's lovely." In 2017, the reality star announced on Instagram that she was pregnant, but things between the couple began to crumble after the NBA star was caught cheating more than once throughout Kardashian's pregnancy.

Kardashian gave birth to their daughter, True, shortly after the allegations broke in 2018. While TMZ reported that Thompson was present, more shocking news followed when, in 2019, he was accused of cheating on Kardashian yet again with Jordyn Woods, half-sister Kylie Jenner's best friend. During the 2021 "KUWTK" reunion, Kardashian shared (via People), "I forgive Jordyn, or else I would be a prisoner in my life. I have to forgive these people for me. And it's up to them to forgive themselves and to be accountable and learn and hopefully don't repeat these same cycles."

After the Woods scandal, the pair appeared to reconcile again and celebrated True's second birthday together in 2020. By June 2021, however, they called it quits for seemingly the last time. That December, it was revealed that Thompson had cheated once again, fathering a child with a woman named Maralee Nichols, which led him to publicly apologize to Kardashian on his Instagram Stories (via the Daily Mail): "You don't deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you. ... Again, I am so incredibly sorry."

Rob Kardashian and Rita Ora had a brief relationship in 2012, but it seemingly meant more to the reality star than to the singer, who once shared that she "forgot" she dated him. Ouch. 

In 2020, the songstress told The Times, "It was very short-lived. I was so young. It was great. It was fun. It was very, very fun, I guess. That's all I remember." People reported that the pair only dated for two months, and it ended when Kardashian learned that she was allegedly unfaithful. Without naming names, he went on a Twitter rant after the breakup, writing (via Us Weekly), "She cheated on me with nearly 20 dudes while we were together, I wonder how many she will sleep with now that we apart?" At the time, Ora told Australia's Daily Telegraph, per Today, that she never really dated Kardashian: "I never thought it was actually a relationship, in all honesty. I never mentally defined it as 'boyfriend, girlfriend.' When I split up with him, I said, 'It's because I'm never there, I don't know how to do it.' That's all I said, then ... the rest happened.'"

The breakup seemed to take a toll on Kardashian despite Ora publicly brushing it off. On an episode of "Kourtney & Kim Take Miami" (via HuffPost), he admitted that he had gained 40 pounds after splitting with the singer and has dealt with weight issues since. As of this writing, Ora is dating filmmaker Taika Waititi after being seen together at the 2021 premiere of "The Suicide Squad," per People.

Kendall Jenner may be known for dating NBA players (which we'll delve into below), but she once had a romantic relationship with former One Direction star Harry Styles. The pair were together back in 2013 — about a year after he dated Taylor Swift — but Jenner and Styles eventually called it quits. Two years later, Us Weekly shared that the duo was photographed aboard a yacht in St. Bart's, with E! reporting that there was some serious PDA during their trip. Things again appeared to cool off between the duo once again, however, but unlike most exes (particularly on this list), they have since remained good friends. 

In 2018, Jenner was spotted with friends at one of Styles' concerts, and in 2019, the amicable on-and-off pairing ran into one another at the Met Gala, with photos showing the two smiling and chatting it up. The former couple even reunited on the "The Late Late Show with James Corden" in December 2019. Jenner and Styles played a game called "Spill Your Guts," in which both stars ask each other personal questions and must either answer truthfully or chow down on whatever is in front of them. In Styles' case, instead of answering if any of his songs off of his debut album were about Jenner, he chose not to answer and ate cod sperm. Ew! 

With his third solo album, "Harry's House," set for release in May 2022, the Grammy-winning "Watermelon Sugar" hitmaker has been dating actor-director Olivia Wilde since early 2021. The private pair's movie, "Don't Worry Darling," is set for a September 2022 release.

Kendall Jenner and NBA player Blake Griffin became an item in the summer of 2017. At the time, the model was seen attending several of his games with the Los Angeles Clippers, regularly cheering him on while she watched courtside with pals including Hailey Bieber.

People reported that things took a toll on their relationship when Griffin was traded to the Detroit Pistons in January 2018, however. According to The Blast, Griffin's ex-fiancée and mother of his two children, Brynn Cameron, sued the basketball player that February after she claimed in court documents that he left her "homeless." Cameron also named Jenner in the lawsuit, with her attorney alleging that the NBA player "traded" her for Jenner. The pair had even set a wedding date in July 2017, but it was postponed, and that August, Griffin was seen out with the reality star. However, despite Cameron's lawsuit, in an interview with Vogue, Jenner shared that she was "happy" with Griffin, adding, "He's very nice. I have someone being very nice to me." 

The two reportedly ended their relationship in early 2018, and in January 2019, Griffin and his ex settled the lawsuit. According to Us Weekly, Griffin moved on from Jenner to date Fox Sports Detroit reporter Brooke Fletcher in 2020. However, it's been rumored that, as of this writing, he is dating Francesca Aiello, the founder of swimsuit line Frankies Bikinis, per Clutch Points. 

Kylie Jenner became a mom of two in February 2022, when she welcomed a son with rapper Travis Scott — the two, of course, previously welcomed their daughter, Stormi, in 2018. But before the reality star was linked to Scott, she had a dating history that included one other rapper known as Tyga.

According to Billboard, Jenner and Tyga have known one another since the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star was a teenager, back when Tyga was with Blac Chyna, with whom he shares a son named King Cairo, as previously mentioned. When the pair split in 2014, the rapper and Jenner were seen out together on several occasions, even though she was 17 at the time and he was 25. While Tyga clarified on "The Breakfast Club" radio that in February 2015 that he was not dating Jenner, things seemed serious between the stars when he posted a photo of Jenner on his Instagram a month later with the caption, "Certain things catch your eye, but only a few capture the heart," per Refinery29. 

The couple ended their relationship in April 2017, with Jenner sharing on her E! show "Life of Kylie" that their breakup wasn't due to cheating or any "crazy fight." She explained, "Well, I decided that I'm really young. I don't want to look back in five years from now and feel like he took something from me when he's really not that type of person." Tyga has since moved on from Jenner and has been dating Camaryn Swanson since February 2021, per In Touch.