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Reality star Kim Kardashian jetted home to the United States on Monday to be comforted by husband Kanye West after she was tied up at gunpoint in Paris and robbed of jewelry worth $10 million.
Kardashian and West stepped out of the back seat of a car after a convoy bristling with bodyguards pulled up to the apartment block, seen in a video posted on celebrity news website TMZ.
The robbers made off with a ring worth around four million euros ($4.5 million) and a case of jewelry with a value of five million euros ($5.6 million), a police source said.
Two mobile phones were also taken.Five men were involved, two of whom entered Kardashian’s bedroom in the luxury residence where she has stayed before, police said.
The robbers zip-tied Kardashian’s hands with plastic handcuffs, duct-taped her mouth and ankles, dumping her in the bathtub, TMZ reported. The star told police that she feared she was about to be raped, the website said.
The robbers allegedly kept saying “ring, ring†and Kardashian told them where to find a new ring given by her husband, TMZ added.
Kardashian had posted a photograph of the huge diamond sparkler — reportedly a 20-carat ring by Lorraine Schwartz — on her finger, while resting her chin on her hand, mouth opened to show off gold dental grillz, as well as a black and gold choker and, of course, serious cleavage.
The reality TV star’s spokeswoman said “two armed masked men dressed as police officers†burst into her room.Another member of the gang restrained the building’s security guard during the robbery, police said, adding that the guard was unhurt.The assailants may have fled on bicycles, investigators say.
The star’s bodyguard, Pascal Duvier, was absent at the time, providing security for Kardashian’s sister Kourtney at a Paris nightclub, an investigation source said.
In Paris, tourism professionals said such a high-profile incident was disastrous for a city where tourist numbers have declined since militants attacks in November killed 130 people.
-AFP
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