Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch - Plumping Profits?: The Kylie Jenner Lip Kit Scandal on Infamous

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

On the “Infamous" podcast, when Kylie Jenner launches her lip  kits of matching lipsticks and lip liners, it appears the youngest  Kardashian-Jenner is suddenly at the helm of a sky-rocketing makeup  company — one that catches the interest of Forbes magazine. But what's  really happening behind the scenes? Listen to Infamous’s “Plumping  Profits?” for never-before-heard recordings of Kris and Kylie from the  journalist who found herself at the center of a scandal. Listen to Infamous: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infamous/id1652941051?i=1000619393215 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember when Kylie Jenner was declared the youngest self-made billionaire and everyone got up in arms about it? Well, I do. Because I wrote that story. I spent hours talking to Kylie and Kris Jenner. And on the podcast, infamous, I'll be playing tape recordings of them. No one has ever heard. Because it turns out they may or may not have lied to me. Where'd you want me to be?

You should be over there. So, we're back at Chris Jenner's house in Hidden Hills. I'm hovering by a big darkwood dining table, waiting to be told where to go. I'm here to sit in on a meeting with Chris, Kylie, and a couple of people who work on Kylie Cosmetics. I think the most important thing was talking about Papa. Yeah. Kylie acts as something of a creative director, accepting or dismissing

suggestions from everyone else. Sometimes Kylie completely smacks down her mom's ideas, in the ubiquitous dismissive childway that will sound familiar to any parent. She's most concerned with aesthetics. And like every If you wish you'd do something, like you should think of something and you know what it is that we've done, we're just talking about that. She's most concerned with aesthetics. And like everyone in California, I self-included, she talks in terms of facts. It's that I take a whole point back.

Just as Ellen's seen my other life, any of the other guys, any of those guys, it's that I always think. But it becomes clear to me during this meeting that even though it's cold, Kylie Cosmetics, it's her mother, Chris, who's really stirring the ship. I mean, how we thought about minutes for customer, what if you did that in the meaner? I think she goes to changes and gets the baby taking care of.

Then we meet you at 430 which is 10. Listen to Infamous wherever you get your podcasts.