14 DAY TRIAL // Seeing how Kim Kardashian allowed TV cameras to follow her throughout her pregnancy for her reality series, it probably didn’t shock anyone when word got out that she’d also had a crew on hand when she got engaged to Kanye West on her 33rd birthday.
So it shouldn’t be that surprising to learn that Kanye is seriously considering suing the person who leaked the first footage of his proposal, which happened during a surprise party at the AT&T Park in San Francisco and which, by the way, you will find embedded below.
The person responsible for the leak is widely assumed to be YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, who was invited to the happy event and who, like everyone else there, was first asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Obviously, filming the proposal on his phone and then posting the video online is in direct violation of said NDA. The fact that Hurley leaked it to promote his new app, MixBit, would do little in his favor if the case does go to trial.
And that’s precisely what will happen, an insider says, as cited by British tabloid the Daily Mail. “The couple thinks they know who did it, and that person signed a confidentiality agreement. We're told a lawsuit is imminent,” says the spy.
Having seen footage of the proposal doesn’t necessarily mean that people won’t tune in on E! when the engagement TV special comes: on the contrary, it might have actually boosted interest in it.
Then again, Kanye is probably not thinking of that when planning his next move, but rather that Hurley signed the NDA and then went ahead and violated it just like that.
For the time being, Hurley’s video is still available and he hasn’t said anything on the topic on Twitter. This could either mean that he doesn’t feel that the video violated the NDA, or that the “leak” happened with Kim or Kanye’s blessing.