Kardashian robbers handed up to 3 years in jail for Paris heist
Nine men and a woman were on trial for a heist during the Paris Fashion Week in 2016, when the thieves, dressed as police, forced their way into the glamorous Hôtel de Pourtalès, bound the US star with zip ties and escaped with $6 million in jewels.
A Paris court on Friday sentenced the accused in the 2016 heist of Kim Kardashian to up to three years in prison, reports Yahoo! News.
Nine men and a woman were on trial for a heist during the Paris Fashion Week in 2016, when the thieves, dressed as police, forced their way into the glamorous Hôtel de Pourtalès, bound the US star with zip ties and escaped with $6 million in jewels.
A Paris court has found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the 2016 robbery of Kim Kardashian.
The court acquitted two of the 10 defendants. The sentences being read out by the court president range from prison terms to fines.
The robbery was one of the most audacious celebrity heists in modern French history when masked men stormed the star’s luxury apartment, tied her up at gunpoint and vanished into the dark with $6 million in jewels.