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Kim Kardashian made a very glamorous appearance as she was seen leaving a photoshoot on Tuesday in Los Angeles, pouring her famous curves into a shiny black catsuit. 

The 41-year-old reality star kept her head held high, and appeared to be brushing off the renewed drama surrounding her infamous sex tape after her former boyfriend Ray J has been digging up the ordeal on social media. 

Kim looked stunning in the revealing black one-piece that featured a plunging neckline, showing off her cleavage. 

The sighting comes after it was claimed that the notorious sex tape with former her ex made more than a million dollars in revenue within its first six weeks of release, according to newly published financial records. 

The drama surrounded it intensified this year, when Ray J gave an exclusive interview to DailyMail.com claiming there was a second tape in existence.  

But now he has sparked a feud with Kardashian, who he dated more than 15-years ago, and her mother and business manager Kris Jenner by claiming Jenner oversaw its release with adult film production company Vivid Entertainment. 

And documents exclusively obtained by TMZ suggest the film made an extraordinary amount of money over a comparatively short period of time following its distribution in 2007. 

An email to Kardashian, purportedly from Vivid Entertainment CEO Steve Hirsch, claims the explicit tape raked in $1,424,636.63 in revenue, including $1,255,578.50, from DVD sales.

Dated April 31, 2007, the correspondence would appear to have been sent just two months after Kardashian filed a lawsuit opposing its release on February 21.

Kim and Ray J previously signed an agreement with Vivid regarding their sex tape, and following the reality star's lawsuit, she and Ray J reluctantly agreed to release it.

Vivid's Steve Hirsch has also openly discussed the deal in the past, calling it a 'difficult deal to get done' because Kim did not want the tape out.

The tape, reportedly shot in Cabo San Lucas, was subsequently released by Vivid Entertainment on March 14, with Kardashian's lawsuit dismissed on April 27 - just four days before she was informed of its sales figures. 

Ray J also previously said that the deal him and Kim made was that they would each receive $400,000 for the tape plus 12.5% of the profits, figures which are reflected in Hirsch's email.

Hirsch also maintains that Kris had no role in selling the tape.

The 41-year-old musical artist said that mother and manager Jenner, 66, watched the three sex tapes and decided to release one which was shot at a resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, though it's thought that Kris' signature did not appear in the contract.

Ray J, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr., said that two of the adult movies were shot in Cabo San Lucas, and one was filmed in Santa Barbara, California.

In a bombshell interview with DailyMail.com in May, Ray J claimed the infamous sex tape was 'released like an album' by Kardashian herself - who also kept the only copy of it stashed in a Nike shobox under her bed along with other steamy tapes she made with him. 

In an Instagram Live clip that extended 44 minutes, Ray J said that Jenner worked on preparing the tape for release with Vivid Video, and that Kardashian was in the loop on all stages of the business transaction. 

He added that Kardashian's handwriting was on the contract with the adult film company describing the sex tapes.

Jenner eventually picked one of the tapes filmed in Cabo San Lucas based on which made Kardashian look the best, Ray J said.

Jenner has denied any involvement in the release of the tape, which boosted the family's high-profile, eventually leading to unprecedented success in reality TV, and paving the path toward its marketing empire. 

Jenner recently passed a test on The Late Late Show, as a polygrapher said she was truthful in saying she did not arrange for the release of the sex tape.  

On Saturday night, Ray released a 44-minute video sharing numerous Instagram DMs he exchanged with Kim, 41, in April.

'You know what we did! Your mom controlled this whole sex tape deal with Joe Francis and [Vivid CEO] Steve Hirsch - it was her idea to put out the tape with Vivid. All I did was agree,' Ray wrote on April 14.

'Now you want to make it seem like I'm doing it again without your control. All those fake tears. Your fans trusting you to be honest and sincere but it's all fake for the cameras. I was playing my part until you started doing all of this! 

'What are you trying to ruin me when you know I was just a player in this! You have to stop believing you own lies! I have to let the world know the real [because] you've taken it too far now. Somebody needs to explain the play you are doing to me ASAP or I will have no choice but to protect my brand and family and expose real.'

Kardashian replied that she didn't say a single bad thing about him in the episode, which depicted the 'new footage' that was allegedly going to be leaked by Ray's manager Wack 100.

'The show filmed in real time the day in hell that I had with my lawyers when your manager threatened to release another tape that doesn't exist - and my son who was five years old at the time seeing an ad with my cry face emoji that said 'Kim's new sex tape' as click bate in Roblox,' Kardashian wrote.

'It was upsetting to have to deal with and I am sure can understand how that feels. My 'burn them to the ground' comment was a generalization to anyone threatening to hold this over my head 20 years later. We are both parents now with young kids and careers and I'm sure you want to move on from this just like I do. But your manager is the person who brought this all up out of nowhere and I have a right to share how it affected me.

'Next week's episode airs where Kanye brings me the computer and he says he got back from you, which shows you in a positive light for giving that to him. Thank you for doing that. Just spoke with my team. We will get something out tomorrow morning to clarify that this was a joke and that you would never gave done something like this. Hope this helps and I'm sorry [too].'

The College Hill: Celebrity Edition star replied that he felt like 'everyone wins but me' because he's the 'bad guy every time.'

'I'm tired of playing that role as the villain. I did it for us in the beginning but now without your support it f***s me over bad,' he wrote.

The Kardashians star replied: 'Wow I had no idea that that was supposed to be private. I was filming my normal days and that just happened and I had no clue and I actually thought you and Wack were working together [because] on his [Instagram] it says he's your manager in his bio.

'So this entire time I thought [you were] working together and I was so confused at the statement you put out saying [you had] nothing to do with it. I just think that story above is powerful and [shows] that we are working together for the future of our children and families to get this out of the Internet.'

Ray responded: 'But are we really trying to do it? Steve won't allow it - so we can pretend to do that but it still probably won't happen. Plus, won't people say, 'Why is Ray J trying to get it off the Internet when I'm the one who put it out in their minds? Doesn't it get extremely confusing?'