Instagram/Kim Kardashian, Screengrab/Instagram/Leonardo DiCaprio

Reported by: DRIMA CHAKRABORTY

Choose your friends wisely.

Kim Kardashian and Leonardo DiCaprio rediscovered the saying when they were caught up in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal due to their connections with Malaysian fugitive Jho Low, as recently-uncovered Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents revealed.

The 2019 documents, reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, showed that Kim gambled with Low twice, including a time where she won US$350,000 (S$471,000).

“At the end of the night, Kardashian’s security guard advised Kardashian to give all her chips back to Low since it wasn’t her money, but when Kardashian attempted to give the chips back Low told Kadashian the chips were her to keep,” the FBI report about Kim’s interview read.

Kim was given a trash bag full of 100-dollar bills estimated to be worth US$250,000 that night in Las Vegas, which she put in her carry-on luggage on her flight to Los Angeles.

She also asked a member of her entourage what to do with the money, to which the latter told Kim she would have to get a letter detailing it was a gift from Low, which she received from Low’s assistant.

Read full report: https://www.asiaone.com/entertainment/brought-home-340000-cash-trash-bag-kim-kardashian-tells-fbi-she-gambled-jho-low-1mdb-leonardo-di-caprio