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Infamous

Robbing Paris Hilton: The Bling Ring

Infamous

Sony Music

News, Relationships, Society & Culture, True Crime, Entertainment News

3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After breaking into celebrity homes and stealing millions of dollars in cash and luxury goods, a group of teenagers becomes famous themselves as the Bling Ring.  In this episode, Vanessa interviews Allen Salkin, one of the first reporters to cover the group. Vanessa, Natalie, and Allen dissect parasocial relationships, the psychology behind theft, and what it’s like to live in a place like Calabasas, where celebrity culture and excessive wealth is so close you can almost touch it…almost. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I was there. I saw what you did. Blaze. I wasn't supposed to be there that night, but my friend

0:07.4

Siena talked me into going to the party in Lands End so she could spy on her boyfriend.

0:11.4

While hiding out in the woods, we witnessed an unspeakable crime,

0:15.8

and we did everything wrong afterward.

0:18.4

Connections run deep in our small town.

0:20.6

Fourteen years later, I learned that the guy who committed that unspeakable crime is running for

0:25.1

Congress and something in me snaps.

0:28.8

I can't bear the weight of that knowledge for another second.

0:31.8

Finally I report what I saw and all hell breaks

0:35.2

loose for me and others who were at that long-go party. Some of them will do whatever

0:39.9

it takes to keep the truth from coming to light, even if they have to kill me.

0:44.6

In the Air Tonight is a new standalone novel from New York Times and USA Today

0:49.2

best-selling author Mary Force that will take you on a wild and suspenseful ride and is available in

0:54.9

e-book print and audio book. Get in the air tonight today.

1:00.9

Campsite media. So Taylor Swift would never have done anything like this, but this week we're bringing you

1:11.9

a blast from the past the story of some of the most notorious burglars in the Hollywood Hills who just so happened to be peer-pressure teenagers

1:26.4

It's 2008 and a security camera at the gate of a mansion in the Hollywood Hills captures the image. Two people dressed in

1:32.1

hoodies walk on onto the property backwards so their faces won't be seen.

1:37.2

On a hunch, they check underneath the door mat.

1:40.0

And there it is, a spare key.

1:43.3

Who leaves a spare key under the doormat?

1:46.2

Especially in LA.

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