Khloe Kardashian Reminded Everyone That She Was Nicole Richie’s Assistant Way Back In The Mid-2000s

October 13, 2020 / Posted by:

Ahhh, Old Hollywood. The scandals, the style, the starlets! I am, of course, talking about the mid-aughts, a very, very good time for show business – both of Britney’s marriages, the end of the original Bennifer, the rise of TomKat, Ashlee Simpson’s lip-sync jig on SNL, everything Lindsay Lohan, and the continued reign of Paris Hilton (ft. Nicole Richie). Little did we know what was stirring in the deepest, darkest recesses of Calabasas. A powerful, starving force had awakened, attracted by the bright lights of the paparazzi and the tacky fashions of the red carpet. “Me, me, meeee,” the beast growled, “Why not meeee?” Then, in 2007, the beast emerged; Kim Kardashian’s sex tape was released, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians promptly hit the airwaves.

Legend has it that it was Paris herself who helped crown her successor; she hired a then-unknown Kim to organize her closet. And now Kim’s sister, Khloe Kardashian, has let everyone know again that she briefly worked as Nicole Richie’s assistant. Sigh. The takeover was inevitable.

36-year-old Khloe shared the info on a podcast on her friend Simon Huck’s Emergency Contact podcast:

“I was Nicole Richie‘s assistant and you were Jonathan Cheban‘s assistant and we met five faces ago,” Kardashian teased of her friendship with the marketing executive.

Khloe is, of course, referring to her ever-changing visage. Compare the above photo (yes, they’re attending the 2008 release of Tori Spelling’s book sTori Telling) with one from last week:

I’m still not sold that Khloe’s not a mutant type a la X-Men’s Mystique.

Khloe went on to give more details about her stint as Nicole’s assistant:

Though she didn’t work for the Simple Life alum for “long,” Kardashian admitted that the opportunity came her way at just the right time.

“I went to school with her,” she said of Richie. “She was one of my best friends growing up and we were just really, really close and then when she started doing Simple Life — I think it was after Simple Life — she just needed some help and I just needed a job.”

Being an assistant to mid-2000s Nicole must have been fascinating. Was this during the super skinny/DUI for weed and Vicodin days, or before her and Paris’ 2005 fallout? But once again, I must plead with Ken Burns to get off his lazy ass and produce a ten-hour documentary about this salacious time in celebrity history! Seriously, Kenny, we’re over this war shit. Give us the full investigative tea on moments such as this:

Pics: Wenn.com

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