Kim Kardashian will be the latest voice in podcasts after she inked a deal with Spotify.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashian’s star will co-produce and co-host the podcast on prison reform, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Though the amount she will get for the deal has not been announced, it is just the latest podcast deal for Spotify after acquiring the Paracast network, last year.
Inked deal: Kim Kardashian will be the latest voice in podcasts after she inked a deal with Spotify for a prison reform podcast
The podcast is the latest effort by Kardashian to bring attention to prison reform.
She will co-produce and co-host the podcast alongside Lori Rothschild Ansaldi as it is distributed under the Paracast network. It was reported that most of the podcast will focus on Ansaldi’s investigative work.
No date for the release of the podcast has been announced.
She has worked to have prisoners released and granted stays of execution in recent years and is also working toward a law degree.
The star has long been a champion of prison reform after successfully convincing President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of non-violent drug offender Alice Marie Johnson in June 2018.
Co-creator: She will co-produce and co-host the podcast alongside Lori Rothschild Ansaldi as it is distributed under the Paracast network. No date for the release of the podcast has been announced (pictured in 2019)
Latest: No financial information of the deal has been announced, though it is the last podcast deal for Spotify, that acquired the Paracast network last year and Joe Rogan’s podcast for $100 million earlier in 2020
Johnson had been convicted on charges of attempted possession of cocaine and conspiracy to possess cocaine and already served 21 years of her life sentence when she was released.
Kim is also working on freeing Kevin Keith, a convicted murderer, and also advocated for the release of rapper A$AP Rocky, who had been imprisoned in Sweden following a street fight.
Last October, Momolu Stewart – who met Kim in July while she was filming a documentary on criminal justice reform – walked free after 23 years behind bars following his conviction for murder when he was just 16.
She has a voice: The star has long been a champion of prison reform after successfully convincing President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of non-violent drug offender Alice Marie Johnson in June 2018 (pictured with Trump in 2019)
After meeting Stewart, Kim wrote a letter of support to use during his bid for re-sentencing, in which she explained how he set up various programs to help other prisons during his time inside.
Stewart’s case was featured in Kardashian’s two-hour documentary special, Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project that aired in April 2020.
She was also vocal about giving Rodney Reed, who was convicted of murder in the late 90s, a stay of execution as evidence has since come up that calls his conviction into question.
Kardashian was with Reed late last year, when he received that call that he would be granted the stay.
Determined: Kim has long campaigned for prison reform, and last year Momolu Stewart walked free after meeting the star. She also wrote a letter to support his appeal
Kim has also secretly funded the Buried Alive Project, which has helped free 17 inmates who were handed huge jail sentences for low-level drug offenses as part of its 90 Days of Freedom project.
In April, Kim also revealed that she wants to become a lawyer and has said she is the midst of a four-year apprenticeship with a San Francisco law firm. She is expected to take the California Bar exam in 2022.
Despite fans’ doubts, Kim wrote on Instagram last month that she is ‘serious’ about becoming a lawyer.
Important: Kim also support Alice Marie Johnson, who was pardoned by President Trump after he met with the reality star at the White House in 2018
She wrote: ‘For the next 4 years, a minimum of 18 hours a week is required, I will take written and multiple choice tests monthly. As my first year is almost coming to an end I am preparing for the baby bar, a mini version of the bar, which is required when studying law this way. I’ve seen some comments from people who are saying it’s my privilege or my money that got me here, but that’s not the case.
‘One person actually said I should ‘stay in my lane’. I want people to understand that there is nothing that should limit your pursuit of your dreams, and the accomplishment of new goals. You can create your own lanes, just as I am. The state bar doesn’t care who you are.
‘This option is available to anyone whose state allows it. It’s true I did not finish college. You need 60 college credits (I had 75) to take part in ‘reading the law’, which is an in office law school being apprenticed by lawyers. For anyone assuming this is the easy way out, it’s not.’