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A New York townhouse where Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott lived was also used to host rigged, illegal high-stakes poker games by alleged members of the American Mafia, according to federal investigators.
The lavish Manhattan home, located at 80 Washington Place in Greenwich Village, was featured in a 2023 episode of The Kardashians. That same year, officials say that basketball stars and bookies conspired with four of New York’s Five Families to rig poker games at the home with high-tech devices.
Jenner and Scott rented the home around 2021 and lived there while she was pregnant with their second child, according to the New York Post.
They later relocated to California, well before the alleged illegal gambling took place. The former couple were not mentioned in the lengthy federal indictment, and there is no indication they had any knowledge of or involvement in the alleged scheme.
The six-story townhouse reportedly sold in 2024 for $17 million.
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott attend the Grammys together in 2019
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott attend the Grammys together in 2019 (Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
The Independent has contacted representatives for Jenner and Scott for comment.
The allegations unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Thursday accuse Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones of participating in the alleged scheme alongside 30 other defendants.
Beginning in at least 2019, defendants and their co-conspirators “engaged in a complex fraud scheme to rig, or cheat at, illegal poker games” throughout the United States, where high rollers would be enticed to play alongside big names at the tables before they were bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars each game, according to prosecutors.
The defendants, who allegedly cheated victims out of $7.15 million, have been charged with wire fraud, operating an illegal gambling business, money laundering, extortion and armed robbery.
“The fraud is mind-boggling,” FBI director Kash Patel said during a press conference in Brooklyn announcing the charges Thursday.
“This alleged illegal gambling operation hustled unwitting victims out of tens of millions of dollars, and created a financial pipeline for La Cosa Nostra to help fund and facilitate their organized criminal activity,” added FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge Christopher Raia.
He said the indictment is just the “tip of the iceberg.”
Jenner and Scott first started dating in 2017 and had an off-and-on relationship until January 2023.
The Kardashians star and Kylie Beauty founder explained in October 2023 that she and her former partner were still co-parenting their two children, daughter Stormi Webster and son Aire, saying: “I think we’re doing the best job that we can do.”