adminReality TV star Kim Kardashian West at the weekend was held at gunpoint and robbed by men dressed as police officers in a private apartment in Paris.
French officials said Kardashian West, who was in France for Paris Fashion Week, was robbed of jewellery worth millions of dollars on Sunday night.
The prosecutor’s office said a ring worth an estimated four million euros ($4.49M) and other jewellery worth about five million euros ($5.6M) were among the stolen items.
The French Interior Ministry said no one was hurt during the incident and that the men did not fire their weapons.
He said the men threatened the mansion concierge with a weapon, handcuffed him and forced him to open the private apartment. Two of the men were able to gain entry to Kardashian West’s room, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, and a gun was held to her head.
She was locked in a bathroom while the men took two cell phones and jewellery worth millions of dollars, the Interior Ministry said.
Kardashian had travelled with her mother, Kris Jenner, and sisters’ Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner.
A spokeswoman for Kardashian West said the celebrity was “badly shaken but physically unharmed” following the incident.
Kardashian’s two children, North and Saint West were not present at the time of the incident. Kardashian West left France yesterday after speaking with police, an Interior Ministry representative told CNN. — CNN/NBC
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