Socialista, Paris Hilton, may have a new BFF, but she no longer has about $2 million of her own jewelry. The Los Angeles Times reports that a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and gloves entered through the unlocked front door of Hilton’s Sherman Oaks home at 5 a.m. Friday morning and ransacked her bedroom before fleeing with the icy loot and other personal belongings.
Sources told the Times that Paris was not home at the time - even though she was photographed the previous night at several LA night spots.
Out at 5am on a school night? That’s a lot of holiday spirit...
Authorities do not believe the Hilton robbery was connected to burglaries that have beset the Westside and Hollywood Hills lately, costing many celebs hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry and other valuables.
In those incidents two or three men wearing ski masks and gloves hit more than 70 homes usually at night and often on weekends. Some of the victims of these gloved intrusions include former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing and her Oscar-winning director husband, William Friedkin, Los Angeles Clippers basketball star Cuttino Mobley, Duran Duran guitarist John Taylor and his wife, Juicy Couture President Gela Nash-Taylor, and country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
Jewelry thieves seem to be making a comeback these days, with the shocking Harry Winston robbery in Paris making headlines, and the economy perhaps forcing others to put their sticky fingers where they don’t belong. Or maybe it’s Hollywood copycats paying homage to their most famous incarcerated gloved criminal, one Mr. O.J. Simpson?
Regardless, celebs like Hilton might want to take extra security precautions until the crime wave passes. Like, say, locking her door?
Diamond Rocks| 2008-12-27 13:19:22 769 Reads Add to Collection |
It’s rough being the world’s richest supermodel. Diamonds are thrown at your feet, gemstones are bestowed upon you like royalty, and big name actors woo you with bling that would make even a pirate blush. What to do with the clutter? What any sensible, rich, criminally attractive woman would do. Get rid of it.
Brazilian beauty, Gisele Bundchen, is streamlining her treasure chest by auctioning thousands of dollars worth of glittering jewels in the Christie’s Jewels: The los angeles Sale scheduled for October 15th. Tom Brady’s significant other will be selling a 3.35 carat colored Sabbadini diamond ring that is expected to fetch between $15,000 to $20,000. he's also unloading a six-carat diamond pendant necklace worth between $120,000 to $150,000.
The supermodel hasn't officially revealed who gave her the lavish leftovers, but A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio and surf god, Kelly Slater, are on her pre-Brady love list.
A portion of the auction proceeds will go to the Russell Simmons co-founded charity Diamond Empowerment Fund, which provides educational funding to diamond-producing countries in Africa.
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