Kim Kardashian turned heads in Hollywood on Thursday, arriving at a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live in a striking all-black look that highlighted her signature curves.
The 45-year-old reality star and entrepreneur showcased her figure in a plunging black dress featuring a dramatic, sculptural hoop skirt.
During the late-night appearance, Kardashian discussed her ongoing efforts to qualify as a lawyer and revealed that she once investigated family friend OJ Simpson herself when she was 14.
Her visit to the show came shortly after she returned to the United States from Singapore, where she reunited with her boyfriend, Lewis Hamilton, at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Kardashian’s sleeveless gown featured a sculpted waistline that accentuated her hips before falling into a long, ankle-grazing skirt.
She finished the look with black peep-toe heels, leaving jewelry and other accessories behind. Her long, raven-colored hair was parted neatly down the middle.
Kim Kardashian highlighted her famous curves in an all-black outfit while arriving at a Thursday taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live in Hollywood
The 45-year-old reality star made a bold statement in a plunging black dress with a distinctive hoop skirt
On the show, Kardashian spoke about her legal ambitions and admitted that she once searched through OJ Simpson’s luggage when she was 14
Kimmel began the conversation by asking about Kardashian’s efforts to pass the bar exam. That discussion naturally led to her late father, Robert Kardashian, who gained national attention while representing his longtime friend OJ Simpson.
Kardashian said it felt surreal as a teenager to watch the Simpson murder trial dominate television coverage, then return home to witness the legal drama up close and without the filters of a news broadcast.
She also admitted that her fascination with the investigation prompted her to conduct some amateur sleuthing. While Simpson was staying in her sister Khloe Kardashian’s room, the teenage Kardashian searched through his luggage.
‘I just was so into it, and I saw everything from behind the scenes,’ she said.
‘After it had all happened, OJ came to stay with my dad at the house,’ Kardashian explained.
‘He had this Louis Vuitton luggage and brought it into the house,’ she recalled. ‘And I see everything on the news, but I see it in real life at my house, so I’m like, “I’m going to play investigator, and I want to go through his luggage and see if I can find anything!”‘
After opening the bags and looking through their contents, however, Kardashian became alarmed when she returned downstairs and saw a news report saying investigators planned to seize Simpson’s luggage.
‘I’m like, “Oh my God, my fingerprints are all over it!”‘ Kardashian recalled, prompting laughter from the audience.
Kimmel started Kardashian’s interview by asking about her bid to pass the bar exam, leading into a discussion of how her father, Robert Kardashian, became known for representing longtime friend OJ Simpson
Kardashian described the experience of watching constant television coverage of Simpson’s 1994 murder trial as a teenager before seeing the legal battle unfold firsthand at home
Fascinated by the investigation into Simpson, Kardashian said she took matters into her own hands and searched his luggage while he was staying in sister Khloe Kardashian’s room
While Simpson was staying in her sister Khloe’s room, Kardashian looked through his Louis Vuitton luggage. But after she heard of investigators’ plans to search his bags on the news, she started freaking out because her ‘fingerprints were all over it’
But Kim concluded by explaining how her fear of being implicated helped inspire her to try to become a lawyer decades later.
‘It made me realize: people can be involved that aren’t involved. And I need to help them,’ she said to applause.
But Kimmel still couldn’t get over how close she came to such a controversial figure like Simpson.
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‘There’s a book about it!’ she jokingly interjected, referencing Simpson’s alleged tell-all, If I Did It, which was ghostwritten by Pablo Fenjves.
The book’s planned release was canceled in 2006, but the following year the rights to it were awarded in bankruptcy court to the family of Ron Goldman, who was stabbed to death along with Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown on June 12, 1994.
The revived book was published with the added subtitle ‘Confessions of the Killer.’
Kimmel joked that he hoped her mother had been wrong about Simpson if he was staying in Khloe’s room, referencing her admissions that she had suspicions that he might have killed Goldman and Brown, who was her friend.
‘I will always feel guilty that I didn’t pay more attention and didn’t speak up when I thought anything was wrong or asked her more, “Do you want to talk about it?” Jenner said in 2015 in an interview for the documentary The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story.
But Kim concluded by explaining how her fear of being implicated helped inspire her to try to become a lawyer decades later
‘It made me realize: people can be involved that aren’t involved. And I need to help them,’ she said to applause
Kimmel also had Kardashian clarify where she is in her years-long quest to hopefully become a lawyer
Kardashian clarified that she had already completed her studies and had passed the baby bar, so she now only needs to pass the bar exam to be a lawyer
Kimmel joked, ‘So you are technically more of a lawyer than the White House press secretary,’ which got a laugh out of his guest
While giving her update, she elided the fact that she only passed the baby bar on her fourth try, and that she failed in her first attempt at the bar in 2025
Afterward, insiders told TMZ that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star had decided to skip a retake opportunity in February of this year
They added that Kardashian didn’t plan to take the bar when it was offered in July, meaning that she won’t try again until 2027 at the earliest
Kimmel also had Kardashian clarify where she is in her years-long quest to hopefully become a lawyer.
Kardashian, who plays a divorce attorney on her Hulu series All’s Fair, explained that California allowed people to become attorneys without graduating from a traditional law school.
However, they have to take two major exams along the way: the so-called baby bar that first-year law students take, followed by the final bar exam needed to become a lawyer.
Kardashian clarified that she had already completed her studies and had passed the baby bar.
‘I’ve made it all the way through, except for the final one,’ she said.
Kimmel joked, ‘So you are technically more of a lawyer than the White House press secretary,’ which got a laugh out of his guest.
Katie Zacharia – who made her much-ridiculed debut as White House press secretary on Tuesday – had been lambasted for repeatedly referring to herself as a lawyer despite having never passed the bar exam.
She claimed in an interview this week that she failed the exam because she had been distracted by her marriage and plans to move to China, and then when she was back in the US she never took the exam again because a surprise pregnancy took up all of her time.
While giving her update, Kardashian elided the fact that she only passed the baby bar on her fourth try, and that she failed in her first attempt at the bar in 2025.
Afterward, insiders told TMZ that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star had decided to skip a retake opportunity in February of this year, and she didn’t plan to take it when it was offered in July, meaning that she won’t try again until 2027 at the earliest.
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