Nine years after a group of masked thieves broke into her Paris residence and made off with $6 million worth of precious jewels, the French courts have ruled on the defendants who robbed Kim Kardashian in 2016.
As revealed by ABC News, three judges and six jurors deliberated on the case, which charged nine men and one woman in connection with the high-profile robbery. Eight of the 10 defendants were subsequently found guilty for their part in the crime, with charges including robbery as part of an organized gang, kidnapping, aggravated theft, and possession of weapons.
Kim Kardashian herself testified in Paris for the court case, revealing to the court room she thought she “going to die” when the thieves broke into her hotel suite nearly a decade ago.
According to Kardashian’s testimony, the 44-year-old media personality was packing her bags for Paris’s fashion week when two men dressed as police officers entered into her room at around 3 am. In Kardashian’s words, the men proceeded to tie up and gag the socialite, before throwing her into her suite’s bathroom.
“I absolutely thought that I was going to die,” Kardashian said in court on May 13. “I kept telling them that I have babies, and that I needed to go home to my babies.”
Evaluating the valuables stolen from Kardashian’s suite, the thieves managed to whisk away roughly $6 million in various high-priced items, including a $4 million diamond engagement ring gifted by Kardashian’s then-husband, Kanye West.
The suspected thieves were eventually apprehended by French authorities in January 2017, gaining the nickname the “grandpa robbers” due to the fact that many of them are over 60. Originally, 12 suspects were charged in the case, but one of them since passed away. The remaining person of interest cannot be charged, owing an ongoing medical illness.
Eight People Found Guilty in High-Profile Kim Kardashian Robbery Trial first appeared on Parade on May 23, 2025
