E! posts the official Kardashian-approved PR spin, the weekly tabloids post the chum and negative fanfic that keeps the K's relevant, and TMZ posts the closest thing to the actual truth about them. https://twitter.com/TimHerrera/status/1346619921820692481
Stories like these aren't real, but negative news is the Kardashian machine's bread and butter. They tacitly allow these stories to proliferate (and I SUSPECT they encourage them, or at least they did in the beginning) because they know their fame comes from being antiheroes.
These stories from E! = the official K party line, which they've been pushing for months: things are *moving toward* divorce. Still doesn't make it true. Remember Jay Z & Beyoncé leaked divorce rumors a few years ago? That was a storyline to service "Lemonade"! Everyone does it.
But TMZ is not usually cowed by publicists. They prob came to this story through their own fact-finding and not via the Kardashian PR machine, so it seems like things really are moving toward divorce. End of an era! I'm sad. https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/kim-kardashian-will-divorce-kanye-west-a-long-time-coming/