Claim: Kris Jenner is related to Kourtney Kardashian.

Robert George Kardashian -LRB- February 22 , 1944 -- September 30 , 2003 -RRB- was an American attorney and businessman of Armenian descent . He gained national recognition as O. J. Simpson 's friend and defense attorney during Simpson 's 1995 murder trial . He had four children with his first wife , Kris Kardashian -LRB- née Houghton , later Jenner -RRB- : Kourtney , Kim , Khloé , and Rob , who appear on their family reality television series , Keeping Up with the Kardashians , and its spinoffs .