Kim Kardashian Reportedly Got Paid $1 Million to Talk to Hedge Funders Weeks After She Was Slammed for Her Harvard LectureThe Skims founder spoke about her SKKY Partners private-equity firm during Miami's "Hedge Fund Week."

BySam Silverman

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A piece ofKim Kardashian's time comes with a hefty price tag.

The Skims founder was reportedly paid $1 million for a single appearance at the iConnections Global Alts conference at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel on January 31to discuss herprivate equity firm SKKY Partners, an unnamed source toldPage Six.

Kardashian's appearance was a part of Miami's "Hedge Fund Week," a networking event for business and finance professionals with tickets costing $10,000.Mark Cubanalsoreportedly spokeat the event.

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Still, Kardashian's appearance reportedly lured in a full audience with multiple overflow rooms.

"It was standing room only in the room where she spoke, with people spilling into the hallway," iConnections CEO Ron Biscardi told Page Six. "We had even more people in overflow rooms where the video was streamed to accommodate the sell-out crowd."

“·卡戴珊收到巨大的掌声时,她走了ed out onto the stage," Biscardi said. "I was happy to see so much support for a female fund manager in an industry dominated by men."

Although the company didn't provide the details of the monetary arrangement for her speech, another source disputed the account and said Kardashian's fee was "less than half a million."

Kardashian launched her private equity firm in September 2022, along with her partner Jay Sammons, with the intent to invest in consumer products, hospitality, digital commerce, entertainment, and more, perThe Wall Street Journal.

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Last month, Kardashian gave a lecture toHarvard Business Schoolstudents about her $3.2 billion Skims empire.

Despite her various entrepreneurial endeavors, critics took to Twitter to criticize Harvard's choice, withone person writing, "Harvard is just as tacky as the Kardashians now."

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Sam Silverman

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Sam Silverman is a content strategy editor at Entrepreneur Media. She specializes in search engine optimization (SEO), and her work can be found inThe US Sun,Nicki Swift,In Touch Weekly,Life & StyleandHealth. She writes for our news team with a focus on investigating scandals. Her coverage and expertise span from business news, entrepreneurship, technology, and true crime, to the latest in entertainment and TV news. Sam is a graduate of Lehigh University and currently resides in NYC.

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