The Bling Ring: Hollywood’s Wildest Teen Crime Spree with Sydney Battle and Matt Bellassai | 102
The Big Flop
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
They say dress for the job you want, not the job you have. For the Bling Ring, that meant stealing $3 million worth of designer goods from Hollywood's elite. From Paris Hilton's forgotten fortune to Orlando Bloom's watch collection, these teen burglars lived out their TMZ fantasies in real time. But when their own reality show became a crime scene, they discovered that fame is fleeting – and felonies are forever.
Sydney Battle and Matt Bellassai join Misha to backpack their way through the high school drama of the Bling Ring.
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| 0:17.1 | It's the ultimate way to immerse yourself in the drama of these business debacles. |
| 0:26.8 | Okay, have y'all ever seen the movie The Bling Ring? You know, the one where Emma Watson |
| 0:35.6 | sheds her good girl, Hermione Granger persona, |
| 0:38.4 | and swung big with a bad girl role? Did you know that movie's based on a true story? And there's |
| 0:44.7 | something to the saying that truth is stranger than fiction, because these teens hopped a fence |
| 0:48.8 | and just waltz straight into Paris Hilton's Pink Palace. The lengths people will go for a designer purse. Well, |
| 0:56.4 | lock up your jewels and hold on to your handbags besties because this Hollywood heist shoots for the |
| 1:01.8 | stars. For nearly a year, celebrity obsessed teens stole cash, clothes, jewelry, art, and even underwear. |
| 1:09.4 | That's so really bad for what I did. Young, crazy kids just trying to get close to celebrity. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm going to let you know how discipline. |
| 1:16.6 | What have I been telling you since you were little girls? |
| 1:19.6 | Never do anything that you don't want on the front page of LA Times. |
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