Kim Kardashian pays $50,000 to free death row inmate who was served his ‘last’ meal three times

Kim Kardashian has backed Richard Glossip’s long-running fight against his murder conviction (Picture: AP/Getty Images)

Reality TV superstar Kim Kardashian is used to grabbing headlines, but not usually like this.

This week, Kim’s publicist confirmed that she had helped secure the release of a former death row inmate who’s spent almost three decades in prison while fighting a murder conviction that he insists was dished out unfairly.

Richard Glossip, 63, walked out of Oklahoma County Detention Center last week after Kardashian helped to pay the $50,000 deposit needed for his bail. His bond had been set at a cool $500,000.

For the first time since the late 1990s, Glossip is no longer behind bars while awaiting yet another trial in a legal saga that’s dragged on for years and years. Being bail...