Kardashians earn $65M in four years

(NewsCore) - The Kardashians earned $65 million in the four years since their Bravo show went on -- but they would be worth a lot more had their recent credit-card deal not crashed and burned, the New York Post reported Thursday.

The Hollywood Reporter analyzed the reality-TV family's earning power from media, Twitter and product deals in this week's issue.

The deal they struck in November with Mobile Research would have netted them $3 for every card activated, 25 percent of fees rung up by cardholders, a $75,000 advance on royalties and a $37,000 signing bonus.

But mom Kris Jenner tried to quietly kill the deal for the prepaid "Kardashian Kard" once they received flak from then-Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal about hidden fees, which he called "predatory."

Then, family lawyer Dennis Roach announced the Kardashians were pulling out of the two-year arrangement and they were handing the advances back.

In January, the card issuer sued the family for $75 million for breach of contract. A Kardashian rep had no comment.

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