Kato Kaelin Biography

Kato Kaelin had shown keen interest in the performing arts during his university days when he had started a talk show and hosted a game show on campus TV. After moving to Hollywood, Kato acted in movies like Beach Fever in 1987 and Night Shadow in 1989.

In 1995, he made cameo appearances on TV shows such as MADtv, We Regret to Inform You and Mr. Show with Bob and David.

He has been the host for radio show KLSX and created content for National Lampoon. A poker aficionado, he participated as a host, in three seasons of this pay-per-view strip poker show, where he had to interview the defeated (nude) players. He has his own talk show since 2011, called Tailgating with Kato. He was even seen on several episodes of X-Play which was a TV show that reviewed video games.

A regular on reality TV and game shows, Kato Kaelin has taken part in Celebrity Boot Camp, BZZZ!, Russian Roulette, and The Weakest Link in 2002, House Guest in 2004, Sunset Tan, Reality Bites Back, Gimme My Reality Show in 2008, and Celebrity Big Brother in 2019.

Kato Kaelin, who was then an aspiring actor, was friends with Nicole Brown Simpson and eventually because of that connection, had started living on the property of O. J. Simpson in 1993 January. On the day of the murder, he had had dinner with O. J. Simpson at McDonalds, and later helped him load his luggage in the limousine while he left the premises.

Although during the trial, Kato Kaeline was declared a hostile witness and his testimony didn’t really help with a definitive lead in the case, Kato has gone on to say that he believed O. J. was guilty, but he did not have any way to prove so.

With the controversy surrounding the case, apparently Kato on the advice of his lawyer backed out of a book deal with author Marc Eliot. Marc had conducted interviews with Kato and penned a biographical book called Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which was ultimately released in June 1995, without having Kato’s name as the co-author.

In 1999, Kato Kaelin won a 15 million US Dollars in an out of court settlement with Globe Communications because of a headline they had printed about him in their magazine National Examiner. The caption said ‘Cops Think Kato Did It’, which implied that Kato was responsible for the murders. Kato had sued the publishers and won, making this a landmark judgement.

Kato Kaelin was born on the 9 March 1959 to Al Kaelin and Lizzy Kaelin in Wisconsin. He was named Brian Gerard Kaelin, but was called Kato, after Bruce Lee’s character in ‘The Green Hornet’.

He studied in Nicolet High School and joined Eau Claire University of Wisconsin, but never graduated from there. He eventually completed his education at Fullerton, California University.

Kato Kaelin met his wife Cynthia Coulter in L.A. where they were both working as waiters. The couple got married in 1983 and stayed together for six years before filing for a divorce in 1989. They have a daughter Tiffany Kaelin, who was born in 1984.

Following the separation, Kato had been linked with several women, such as Elizabeth Daily, Barbara Dare, and Amber Thompson, but has been in a steady relationship with girlfriend Leyna Nguyen, since 2013.