Man who secretly filmed Kimye’s intimate moment has to pay up

Kim and Kanye – the love story: he popped the question just months after her divorce from Kris Humphries had been finalised.

Surrounded by their close friends and family, the intimate and special moment was, of course, captured by the Keeping Up With The Kardashian cameras.

Significantly, however, it was a milestone that wasn’t shared with viewers until February 2014 – a full four months after the event actually took place.

So understandably when unauthorised footage of the proposal was leaked online via video-sharing platform MixBit, the couple was furious.

Still, today they both can be a little less irate: they’ve been given €390,000 in compensation by Chad Hurley, the founder of YouTube and MixBit, and the man who captured the incident.

TMZ reports that Kimye had claimed in legal documents that Mr Hurley had manipulated his way into AT&T Park in San Francisco back in October 2013 to witness Kanye's proposal.

And even though he signed a confidentiality agreement, Chad still secretly recorded the video, later posting it to his site.

The West’s lawyer, Eric George, claimed that the web entrepreneur was desperate to make his then just launched video-sharing company a success: he’s a multi-millionaire following the sale of YouTube to Google in 2006 for €1.45bn, but he’s since struggled to replicate that with another online winner.

Mr Hurley now only has a few days to cough-up the six-figure sum, though MixBit pays him an annual salary of €4m and he’s worth €315m on the back of the YouTube sale, so we reckon he won't be too hard up afterwards.