Kim Kardashian revealed in a new episode of “The Kardashians” that she was the anonymous winner of the Bible once belonging to her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., which was being sold from O.J. Simpson’s estate — and the story has some wild turns.
Initially, she tried to buy it privately, but things did not go as planned.
Kim told her daughter Chicago that the Bible, which she just received in the mail, used to be her dad’s: “This is really special to me because this used to be my daddy’s.”
According to auction records, the book was listed by Goldin Auctions as the “Robert Kardashian Signed, Inscribed, Personally Owned ‘The Living Bible’ given to O.J. Simpson.”
Private Offer Rejected, Public Bid Succeeds
Before the Bible went to auction, Kim tried to strike a private deal.
She offered $15,000 through Simpson’s estate attorney, but the offer was rejected because the estate deemed it too low, given legal expenses.
As the executor explained, the cost of processing the sale could equal what she offered.
Kim later said she would have been willing to pay $30,000.
But when the auction opened, Kim made a bold move — she used an alias to place a bid and won: the final price came to $80,276, including the buyer’s premium.
A Sentimental Return Home
When she held the Bible for the first time on-screen, Kim said she was surprised: she thought her dad had given Simpson a copy of the Bible, but she realized it was actually his own Bible, with his name engraved on the cover.
“I didn’t know that,” she told her daughter, noting the sentimental weight of the item.
Inside, they discovered a handwritten letter from Robert to his longtime friend O.J., written shortly after his arrest — a deeply personal message reaffirming faith, loyalty and love.
Kim Gifts the Bible
Kim ended up gifting the Bible to her sister Khloé, who first spotted the auction listing and alerted her, according to E! News.
She also addressed how she maintained secrecy during bidding: using an alias was her way of avoiding media attention and public drama.
Khloé detailed on what the gift means to her.
“I don’t have many things of my dad’s,” Khloe said of her dad. “When my dad died things happened and we didn’t get a lot of his stuff. Just seeing his name and handwriting was very sentimental to me.”
Khloé also revealed her dad’s passing was the most traumatic thing in her life on a recent podcast.
“Probably my dad dying, and I think it was the most — obviously [it] is the most traumatic, I think, for anyone. But I was 19, my brother was 16, and for him and I, it was really traumatic,” she recalled.
