Kanye West, Kim Kardashian Win Settlement for Leaked Engagement Video

Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube and its former CEO, will pay Kanye West and Kim Kardashian a $400,000 settlement sum for leaking footage of the couple's marriage proposal ceremony back in 2013.

Hurley was allowed to stay at Kimye's private stadium proposal at San Francisco's AT&T Park after signing a confidentiality agreement. Hurley broke the agreement by posting footage of the video on his fledgling startup video-editing app MixBit. The footage quickly found its way onto TMZ.

The couple is used to leaked footage and an extraordinarily public lifestyle, but they had a financial stake in this footage. The ceremony was meant to be shot and sold to E! for an exclusive piece on the star couple's marriage. Of course those plans were somewhat thwarted by Hurley, but the ceremony did wind up airing on E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

In court documents obtained by TMZ, Kimye and their lawyer Eric George accuse Hurley of desperate acts to find a new successful startup after selling YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion and failing at two prior projects. After shooting the footage he not only posted it to MixBit but also tweeted it to his nearly 1 million followers and issued a press release.

According to Business Insider, the footage was the property of Keeping Up With The Kardashians producers Bunim/Murray and E!. Hurley doesn't seem too happy about the payment given the snarky comment in his latest tweet, but he is working to put the whole thing behind him by donating $440,000 to his foundation.

Now the world knows that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian take private marriage proposals in massive baseball stadiums very seriously.

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