In October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint by a gaggle of males who broke into her Paris resort room within the early hours of the morning. The masked intruders stole tens of millions of {dollars}’ value of jewellery, together with her engagement ring, and Kim has described the assault as “seven or eight minutes of torture.”
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Talking to David Letterman in 2020, Kim mentioned she was tied up and restricted with zip ties, duct tape, and handcuffs. The robber threw her in a tub whereas they ransacked her room, apparently utilizing duct tape to cowl her eyes and mouth.
Regardless of how deeply traumatic it was for Kim, there are loads individuals on the market who’ve publicly accused her of faking the incident — and it seems like Kanye West was one in every of them.
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“My ex-husband had said, ‘And you faked your robbery for a TV show,’ and had said that in front of all these people,” Kim mentioned within the newest episode of The Kardashians. “That was a knife to my heart.”
“Just to think that someone wouldn’t believe you — that’s so close to you, that should know you, that should know how much that affected your life — it just really bothered me,” she went on, getting visibly emotional. “You don’t know who I am.”
Kim didn’t specify precisely when this occurred, however she and Kanye have been married on the time of the theft. Notably, Kanye was on tour and halted a New York Metropolis present halfway by means of his set upon studying of the “family emergency” that had taken place abroad.
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Kim and Kanye divorced in early 2021, and since then, Kanye’s profession has spiraled right into a sequence of deeply problematic and regarding behaviors. He has publicly harassed Kim and her household, and, suffice to say, it sounds just like the exes don’t have a pleasant relationship.
In case there was nonetheless any doubt, Kim’s theft was positively no hoax. In Could this yr, she testified in a Paris court docket for six hours. “To finally go to trial and face these people and hear their accounts and apologies, I’m like, ‘See, guys, it was real,’” Kim mentioned by means of tears in her Kardashians confessional. “I’m happy it’s over.”
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Reflecting on her mindset going into the courtroom, Kim mentioned, “I’m just not nervous. This was less than 10 minutes of my life. I’ve lived an amazing life. That’s always given me a little bit of peace, just to know — what was it? Eight, nine minutes? — of pure terror and panic aren’t going to ruin me.”
