Kim Kardashian is in France to face the men who robbed her at gunpoint almost 10 years ago. Detailing the terrifying incident, she told the court she said a silent prayer — for her sister, her best friend and her family — as a masked man pulled her towards him in the Paris hotel room during the 2016 jewellery heist that changed her life.
Explaining that she was wearing only a bathrobe that revealed much of her naked bottom half, she then told how was bound with cable ties and believed she wouldn’t survive. “I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,” she told a Paris court on Tuesday. “I absolutely did think I was going to die.”
When she heard footsteps thundering up the stairs that night, Kardashian said she first thought it was her sister Kourtney and a friend returning from a night out. The noise got louder. “Hello? Hello? Who is it?” she called out. Moments later, her door flew open. She begged the robbers: “I have babies,” she said. One replied that she would be OK if she stayed quiet.
The last time Kardashian saw the men that police say robbed her, she was bound at gunpoint and left locked in a marble bathroom while masked assailants stole jewellery worth millions of dollars.
Nearly a decade later, she returned to Paris to face them — this time from the witness box.
Dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses, Kardashian stood in the packed courtroom across from her mother, Kris Jenner. Her voice broke as she thanked French authorities for “allowing me to share my truth”.
She told the court that the attackers arrived dressed as police officers, with the concierge in handcuffs.
“I thought it was some sort of terrorist attack,” she said.
She described how they tied her hands with cable ties, dragged her to the bathtub and pointed a gun at her temple.
One robber gestured toward her ring. “He said, ‘Ring! Ring!’ and he pointed to his hand.”
French prosecutors say the men who orchestrated the heist — most in their 60s and 70s — were part of a seasoned criminal ring that tracked Kardashian’s movements through social media.
