BAND BREAKUP: Kim Kardashian is escorted through LA International Airport – conspicuously missing her wedding ring. (
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She tempted him, tossed him — and now, Team Kardashian is about to bury him.
Kim Kardashian’s “Mean Girls’’ posse yesterday launched a hardcore smear job on the reality-TV star’s hubby, New Jersey Net hoopster Kris Humphries, who had been recruited to play the glorified-extra role of groom in her made-for-TV wedding last month — only to be told she was divorcing him Monday, after just 72 days of matrimony.
“He was so mean and dismissive and was constantly putting her down,” one of Kardashian’s pals dished to The Post.
Another friend vowed that Kim’s circle would have Humphries, 26, boxed out of any lucrative endorsements or club appearances.
“Anyone [establishments] who books him will be blacklisted” by Team Kardashian, the friend snipped.
But Humphries, 26, didn’t do himself any favors if he was trying to play the victim, reportedly dissing Kardashian in a clip that will air on her upcoming E! show “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.”
Humphries, who’ll be a free agent as soon as the NBA lockout ends, is apparently considering a deal to play for his hometown Minnesota Timberwolves.
“How am I going to have my career and live in Minnesota?” Kardashian whined, according to People magazine.
The 6-foot-9 Humphries snapped back, “By the time you have kids and they’re in school, no one will care about you.”
Meanwhile, Kardashian, 31, seems to be rolling forward with her life despite the media frenzy around the couple’s quick split. The big-bottomed professional celebrity boarded a flight late Monday to Australia to promote her handbag line with sister Khloe Kardashian.
Kim told fans that the fast-break marriage and divorce are real — and not shameless p.r. stunts.
“I married for love,” she wrote on her Web site. “I share so much of my life on a reality show that contemplating whether to even film my wedding was a tough decision to make, and maybe it turned out to not be the smartest decision.’’
Their wedding reportedly cost $10 million, but the bride and groom didn’t have to pay a penny, thanks to in-kind gifts. The pair also reportedly scored $15 million on the wedding TV special and $2 million more peddling photos to People.
But Kardashian insisted, “There are also reports that I made millions of dollars off of the wedding. These reports are simply not true and it makes me so sad to have to even clarify this.”
Additional reporting by Sean Daly
in LA