Kim Kardashian - The Personalities

The Trial

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In 2016 Kim Kardashian was the victim of an armed heist when she attended Paris Fashion Week.

She was bound, gagged and held at gun-point by a gang who stole around $10 million worth of jewellery.

In today’s episode Caroline and Nick start to hear about some of the people who are on trial accused of being involved; the alleged ring leader, the career criminals, and the celebrity fixer.

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Presenters: Caroline Wheeler and Nick Fagge

Editor: Chelsea Moore

Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham

Producer: Sam Morris

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

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0:00.0	The Crime Desk, Arresting Podcasts.
0:06.1	Subscribe to The Crime Desk now for exclusive members-only trial episodes and much more.
0:12.4	Just head over to thecrimescest.com.
0:14.6	Now, that's thecrimesk.com.
0:19.4	The Crime Desk. Arrest The crime desk.
0:22.0	Arresting Podcasts.
0:26.5	Welcome to the trial podcast,
0:28.4	the Kim Kardashian Heist.
0:29.8	I'm Caroline Cheatham.
0:31.3	And I'm Nick Fage.
0:33.7	We'll be back in a second.
0:51.5	Paris Fashion Week is usually a highlight of the year in the French capital, attracting celebrities and tourism.
0:53.6	But in October 2016, it made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
1:01.0	Kim, Kyr, Kim! Kirstehanashin flew into the city with her sister Courtney, and she was soon busy
1:05.4	posting glamorous pictures at celebrity parties.
1:08.7	But that all changed just a few days into the trip when a gang
1:12.5	carried out a terrifying heist. It happened one night as she relaxed in an apartment and a group
1:18.2	of men dressed as police officers burst in. Getting inside, tying her up and stealing her jewels.
1:25.9	She was held at gunpoint, bound, gagged and dumped into a bathtub.
1:30.6	As she begged them not to kill her, they escaped with an estimated $10 million in jewels.
1:36.4	Now, almost a decade later, 10 people are on trial in a Paris court for their part in the
1:42.6	heist, and the trial podcast will be there every day covering
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