It is quite a journey from sex tape to law degree, via launching one of the world’s most successful lingerie ranges, but Kim Kardashian has made that trip her own. From panting to pants to big fat briefs it has sure been a frilling ride, in one way and another.

The influencer and reality star passed her California law exams this week, taking six years to complete a three-year course.

Some have tittered at this class dunce timetable, but you try fitting in legal studies between being a mother to four children, manicures, weekly massage and facial appointments, tweakments, daily gym sessions, meetings, designing a raised nipple bra (don’t ask), girly spa days, holidays, high days, attending Lauren Sanchez’s hen do in a black corset dress, not to mention the constraints of her various Kardashian television shows, what with cameras in her home and in her face around the clock.

‘The day usually consists of me going into the law office a few times a week and then I film our show,’ she confusingly told a lifestyle website called Poosh, conveniently owned and run by her older sister, Kourtney Kardashian Barker.

This week Poosh advised its readers to ‘towel dry your hair immediately after showering’, which was excellent advice for the 0.06 per cent of the global adult female population who have yet to find a workable solution to the problem of post-shower wet heads. Use a towel, you dizzy lizzies! And remember where you read it first.

US-based Poosh seems to exist purely to flog £22 bottles of ‘gummies’ to impressionable customers for imaginary ailments, including a ‘horny goat weed’ gummy to help boost sexual stamina and a gummy made from ‘ionic’ elements ‘from Utah’s Great Salt Lake’ to help nail growth.

The Kardashian family are worth billions and clearly they didn’t get rich by overestimating the intelligence of the American people.

I digress! Back to m’learned friend, Kimmy. The 44-year-old star has completed the California Law Office Study Program, which allows aspirant lawyers to study in a law office rather than attending a proper law school.

It is quite a journey from sex tape to law degree, via launching one of the world’s most successful lingerie ranges, but Kim Kardashian has made that trip her own, writes Jan Moir

In 2021 she passed her first exam hurdle after four attempts and now has to sit a proper bar exam before she can actually practise law – but will that ever happen?

What seems much more important in the Kimosphere is that she has already filmed the first series of a new Hulu drama by Ryan Murphy called All’s Fair, in which she stars as a divorce lawyer who works in an all-female law firm in Los Angeles.

The cast includes Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts and everyone is charging around in power suits and high heels looking fabulous, while Murphy has joked that Kardashian’s catchphrase should be: ‘Not only am I a lawyer, but I play one on TV.’

Kardashian herself has said that the show is very ‘on brand’ for her and that got me thinking.

Was her appearance in a Paris courtroom last week just another part of this branding exercise, a cheap bit of showbiz publicity masquerading as her oft stated ‘fierce desire for justice’? I attended the trial at the Palais de Justice on the day Miss Kardashian gave an emotional testimony against the nine men and one woman accused of robbing her in a Paris hotel in 2016.

The armed thieves bound and gagged her with zip ties and duct tape, threw her in the bath and made off with more than £7.5million of her jewels, never recovered.

Yes, a terrifying ordeal, one in which she believed she was going to be sexually assaulted and/or murdered. Reliving the experience still made Kardashian cry in court, even though almost ten years have passed since the event.

Watching the proceedings at close quarters and listening to her sobs, I did have the very uncharitable thought that thinking something awful is going to happen is a very different experience from it actually happening, although I don’t wish to diminish her suffering.

Was her appearance in a Paris courtroom last week just another part of this branding exercise, a cheap bit of showbiz publicity masquerading as her ‘fierce desire for justice’, asks Jan

Yet as Miss Kardashian’s testimony wore on and on throughout the day – the tiny famehound was on the stand for nearly five hours – I began to wonder, what the hell is she even doing here? Once KK had told everyone how blimmin’ awful it all was, what was the point? Then towards the end of her marathon courtroom stint, there was a little clue.

‘I wanted to be a part of today because I am a victim in this case and it’s the first time I’m able to really hear from everyone and follow along,’ she said.

‘This is what I do. I want to become a lawyer and I do believe everyone has the opportunity to speak their truth, and this is my closure and my opportunity to put this to rest after everything I’ve been through.’

Closure, yes. But undeniably an opening, too. An opportunity to tell the court and the world beyond about her Legally Brunette ambitions, both in fiction and in real life.

Good for Kimmy if she really wants to help victims and those with inner trauma – on both sides of the law, she says – but so far it all seems laughably performative. Just like the fake graduation ceremony she threw for herself at the Beverly Hills Hotel this week.

The newly minted almost-lawyer wore a cap and gown in tasteful beige, served her guests cappuccinos dusted with tiny cocoa mortarboards and posted the images on social media for all to admire.

‘This has been one of the most inspiring legal journeys we’ve ever seen,’ frothed one of the excitable lawyers sponsoring the star, which certainly puts Roe v Wade in a different perspective.

So in this perplexing legal hall of mirrors, is Kim Kardashian merely play-acting at being a lawyer pretending to be a lawyer on TV?

Judge Jan and the jury are still out on that one.